On the old mater, the lounge was the lounge. Then they put in a politics room that you could see the link to if you were in the lounge. Then on the new mater, there was no politics room and an agreement that there would be no political discussion at all here (LOL, which some of us were more than a little skeptical of). Now there's a politics room here that you can't see unless you request access to it.
Some threads start out political and are never moved. Some non-political threads are turned into political ones. One person made here made the first political statement on a thread (a disrespectful one at that), then days later asked that the thread be moved because it was political!
Here's the one I have a problem with. Sometimes we'll be discussing what are WORLD EVENTS, simply giving our reasons for believing what should be done, and someone will step in with something like "Shouldn't this be in the politics room?"
I don't think something is political until someone USES politics in their reasoning, such as thinking one "side" is simply inherently right or wrong. I happen to believe that you could discuss anything, protecting the border, taxes, abortion, religion, etc, etc, etc, WITHOUT it being political. I also believe I could find a way to politicize practically every thread ever started.
I've seen threads moved to the politics room that weren't political at all. I've seen threads started in the politics room that aren't political that don't get moved to from there to the lounge.
If someone starts a thread that's non-political, and someone else MAKES it political, I think someone should go through and remove those posts, not move the entire thread. They only seem to go to that much trouble if it's in the NHRA section.