Political discussion can often end up in a shitshow that creates a huge moderation headache. I enjoy not having to worry about doing much moderation, but that’s also resulted in a community that’s not particularly active.
What are you getting out of this community? Would it be better to allow for overt political discussion?
Honestly, first I’ve seen this community.
The difficulty of not including politics is that nearly everything is political to some degree nowadays. Even what to see and where to go. E.g. I wouldn’t recommend Florida for anyone or any Disney stuff. Frankly, I can’t even recommend visiting under the current admin.
However, overt politics depends on your level of moderation willingness. It’d get real old real fast being asked why we’re not standing up more. Why things are so shit when our country should be rich. Things that require a history course to fully explain (though you can usually blame Reagan and be at least partly right).