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[quote user="selector"] But, in an open forum with an intended, and expressed, restriction on the subject matter range, your invitation to discuss the economy as it relates to passenger rail and opinions written about it, will invite politicization of the subject.  But if it turns partisan, it tends to turn personal, and eventually nasty.   I believe that is what Kathi is asking responders to curtail, the political references that are not bipartisan.  [/quote]But Mr. Phillips was not just discussing the economy as it relates to railroads.  He was discussing government policy and specific bipartisan politics as it relates to railroads.  When this thread began in response to Mr. Phillips, knowing the rules here, we left bipartisan politics out of the discussion and focused on government systems and their economics.  So I have to ask:  When forms of government are discussed, does that amount to politics on this forum?  It seems to me that when Mr. Phillips advocates government socialism to bring more trains to train lovers, the conversation might naturally enough turn to discussing the pros and cons of socialism (assuming that we are allowed to discuss Mr. Phillips' work).  And when you start discussing socialism, the 600-pound gorilla is today's economic bailout plan that threatens to convert the entire U.S. system overnight.  So, I did not think the thread was as over the line as the reaction to it suggests.  It might have drifted a bit, but many threads here are far ranging.  So far there has been nothing personal, nasty, or partisan in this thread, and I don't see how there can be a predetermination that it is headed there.
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