ECCIE: The "I-E" stand for Information Exchange.
What I see a lot of on this Political Forum is name calling . . .on both sides.
Frequently when some subject is debated pro and con here there are a large number responses that avoid any discussion of the issue at hand for blatant ad homonym attacks on other posters. Many of them are worse than fifth grade level play ground name calling.
It is my perception (haven't done any statistical analysis) that most liberal issues cannot stand up to reasoned counter arguments, which only leaves them with the name calling.
This is not exchanging information.