I consider myself a Marxist/socialist with views well to the left of the NDP, although I do vote for the NDP due to a lack of any better party to vote for. I rarely post in the politics threads anymore, because any voices that are not Liberal or NDP partisan get ignored.
I actually don't consider Pondering to be the worst offender at this point. I do wish she would stop posting unprovable points such as "When justin releases his platform, Liberal support will rise", "The Liberals are better positioned to make positive change", "The NDP is no better than the Liberals", "The Liberals platform will include a childcare plan", and "The Liberals will not finish third", but overall I think Pondering's behaviour has improved over what it was.
The bigger problem to me is the dominance of babble by Debater and North Report. The majority of threads are started by these two, and the majority of these are redundant. Debater's repeatedly asserts that "Ontario is a conservative province where the NDP can't win", and accuses NR of being a Conservative Party supporter. NR constantly asserst his opinions as fact, and is repeatedly antagonistic towards Debater. If I stop posting here altogether, it will most likely be because of these two.
That and the fact that the moderators are not stepping in to deal with this problem. Warnings, backed up by the threat of suspensions and bannings, need to be used. No babbler should be above this. Unfortunately, the mods appear to bee awol most of the time now.
It is too bad that you don't post here. I am not a Marxist but a social democrat but I feel that the NDP is due a critique from the left. And yes there are so any redundant threads including one polling thread for each company!