I'm only new to this so my outlook may be naive but seriously, this kind of politics is wildly out of place on a fun site. If the downvoters targeted some of my more colourful Australian language I could understand; we sware like troopers. But no, they downvote people expressing opinions on matters they see as important. That invalidates a system intended to protect the site and it's users from trolling. The fact that the downvote system is electronic & unpoliced has left it open to the very abuses it was intended to eliminate. If it doesn't work get rid of it.