@BillRM,
In reality one has to look at the type of people who majorly use these sites.
This site, like so many, has a handful of 'constant posters', the same names appear time and again. The reason? Well, they are for some reason people who are 'locked in'; they are either ill or disabled or have some other issue which means they do not have social contact in any normal sense. Nor are they fiscally sound, they have little life experience, they are blatantly from lower socio economic groups and are poorly educated.
The internet social media/forum has empowered these people, because they are hidden behind their keyboards and their twisted view of the world, their bitterness at their own ineptitude at life which is always someone else's fault .... is allowed here to bubble up into a public space, meeting like minds.
Their adage seems to be
"Just because someone is an educated professional and I know nothing, my opinion is just as valid ... experts are idiots!" ....
It is a outlook found in 'The Dunning Kruger Effect", but as the internet progresses, the views of these ignorants becomes ever more twisted. It is how you got Trump, it is how the UK fell out of the EU with Brexit, it is why the ultra right is rising in the west and why the actual WW3 is most likely forming as we speak.
'Democracy' was never designed to cope with social media and it's bandwagons of ignorants ..... be it racism or swallowing Tide pods.
There are sites with people from ethnic backgrounds and cultures but this one is just another full of it appears mostly white, social miscreants. Why would anyone from a group ostracised by these same people wish to be here being attacked at every turn?
Do these major posters realise they have the self same argument with the self same people, time and again ... They all know their places, they all know the answers the other has, but just keep replaying that ..... It is wearing and little fun for anyone but themselves.
Why do I come here? Well, I have only just joined but it is another site which I will soon be leaving to the buzzards. In my life I have employed many hundreds of people, trained thousands in various skills, fought in conflicts, have a business portfolio covering businesses from financial services to adult sexual entertainment .... Now as I am getting old, am no longer working through illness and I avoid society (before COVID-19 made it popular) so I like to interact a little on a social forum. Because here one can interact exactly as much as one wants to or not.
Personally I post what I think and NEVER return ... Who cares what the responses are? I don't care in physical life, why would I care about faceless typing?
So for me I am already tired of the
main posters and their uneducated, belligerent, populist, ignorant, racist, ultra right views .... and I am a Caucasian with a superb Dr wife, our two Dr children and no problems either fiscal or social.
Why would anyone who was from an ethnic background or a religion these idiots don't like ... bother talking to them?