"not allow
the extremists to get a hold on this forum".

The only real extremists on this forum, Foxy and Paul 1405, are doing their very best to "get a hold on this forum". Sadly, some other posters are encouraging them by trying to argue with them and giving them oxygen. These two are beyond redemption; they lower the tone of OLO, and they are doing their very best to make the site unpleasant for all who are not like them. Send them to Coventry!

I've come to realize that the most nasty, malicious,
hate-filled social media accounts are the least verbal
in real life. These social media posters (trolls) have
no physical troll land in which to dwell so they come
on here daily to vent their spleens.

Arguing with these anonymous virulent strangers on the
web is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out
to be self-righteous, conservative extremists, living in
the past, possessing infinite amounts of free time.

They've lost the ability to debate the merits and content
of a position. Instead they want to play to the troll-fed,
worst of who humans can be.

So sad!

So says the Queen of the Trolls. She also uses the one paragraph in two posts.

Some of the social media experts say that trolls tire if ignored. That doesn't work with our Queen.

Ahhhh, so the nasty court jester (ttbn)
does read my posts after all. And he does
follow me around. He IS a fan - no doubt
about it - and I grant him a platform to
spew. He must be very grateful. Without me
who else would he have to attack and where else
could he vent his spleen.

If Foxy disagrees why doesn't she get to the point rather than labeling one as an extremist.

Good news is, like George Bush has complained, with the radical right libertarian ideologues joined at the hip with eugenics, have taken over conservative parties and encourage extremists of the right in promoting 'great replacement', whether Evangelicals, pro-lifers or far/alt right.

The GOP, like the LNP, has become an 'Anglo-Saxon' or in Oz 'Anglo-Irish' party precluding a welcome to new potential or future non Anglo-Saxon/Irish voters, at least any social mobility.

Their self perceived strengths and past success may well become their own Achilles' heel, then will need to move back to the centre and attract diverse support, for survival via political eugenics.