I think it would quickly decay into an unproductive, unpleasant political debate. I'm quite happy to not be seeing so much of it on here.
Weird. That never stops every other topic.
the difference is that there is a government shutdown involved, which is 100% pure politics, as opposed to topics like the NSA, which aren't necessarily politics, at least not obviously.
I agree. However, I'd like to see a postmortem of the events and infrastructure in a few months, when everything's hopefully calmed down.
At first I thought you used "political" to mean opinionated commentary about software development, platforms, and frameworks. And I thought, "bring it on!" And then I realized you meant political. Oh. That.