Thanks for posting the alternative site for us Jim. I have been looking for another site to take a break from FR for awhile.
I have been a FREEper for many years now and been through a few election cycles. This one is completely different. Never did I think a man like Ted Cruz and Mark Levin would be smeared almost 24/7 on your site. And you can’t get away from it. You try and find a thread somewhere where Donald Trump isn’t in forced into the conversation and ruins the thread. Just about the only Trump Free zone left was the archeology threads.
It is nigh impossible to learn anything of substance here now. It has become useless to try and glean real news stories or reasoned debate on some of the serious issues of the day. No one wants to have to pick through hundreds of name-calling posts hoping to find one nugget of useful information.
It is not for me to tell you how to run your site. But I did want to give you some kind of feedback as to why people may be leaving. Your site has been taken over by a group of people who are not conservatives and not really all that interested in restoring our Constitution. I hope they have very deep pockets. They have bullied people so much that some of us find it to be just an unpleasant tortuous place to be with little to no useful information or reasoned discussions any longer.
I hope you take this in the spirit in which it was intended. I know that you have said that this isn’t a Republican site and isn’t owned by that party. However it seems to me that now this is a Donald Trump site and real conservatives are no longer welcome.
I know you have worked so hard to make FR what it was. I enjoyed it so much and it was a big part of my day for many years. I am hoping that when things settle down a bit and the elections are over I can come back and enjoy FR once again and be a supporter.
I am not going to be missed I am sure. I am nobody of importance. I’m not doing this to be nasty or pouty etc. I cannot engage in the type of nastiness that is the norm here right now and it is best for me to take a break for awhile so I don’t say anything I will regret later. I wish more here would do the same and take a break as it is clear that some have lost their perspective & reason completely.
Good luck, God Bless.