But the "That’s not the way the founding fathers set it up, it’s just another way the Democrat tyrants (aided and abetted by the Republican tyrants) have of attempting to control us and deprive us of our God given rights to self-governance and the pursuit of Happiness (economic freedom). Look it up."... I don't follow.
The founding fathers created a nation, not a LLC.
Though, if you view donations as taxes, then the donors are kinda rebelling right now... saying "No taxation without representation".
Now, I do understand that donations are voluntary. But with longtime (read: posters from the '90s) posters getting ZOTTED left and right, many are leaving. That leaves you with a problem.
Which is that you now have a shrinking pool of people from which to request donations. And considering the site has lost roughly 10% of it's traffic in the last three months, that problem is going to snowball.
Tie into that the fact that the Freepathons have slowed down quite a bit, and you'd have to conclude that those 10% you've lost contained a good number of your donors.
See your stats at: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/freerepublic.com#trafficstats
If you don’t like FR and or don’t like the way we operate it leave! Continue anti-freeping, you will be shown the door.