Jeez, yet again another thread derailed into an MMT thread. I think that is what people are annoyed about, the constant thread derailing and endless arguments. Let’s just have one MMT thread and leave it all on there.
There again, you highlight the problem. I have not raised MMT as a topic, I did mention it in relation to the nature of personal insult, which I take to be a theme of this thread, but it was not me who raised it as a topic.
Much more to the point it was not me who raised the heat on this topic, my post was apologising to all for my part in those heated discussions. Yet the response is from two or three posters who have gone out of their way to again raise the heat. Not with discussion of issues, but with passive aggressive jibes.
If you care to read back, you will see that MMT was not discussed here, as a topic, was two other poster who raised MMT as a topic yet again in order to say “look, MMT is everywhere. Absurd
On another point, I was talking about MMT in direct response to someone who asked for information. If you are suggesting that Imshould not respond to someone asking me a question, I have to say your wrong. If you are not interested, don’t engage. You are like someone who goes onto a cable thread to complain about cable threads. Either engage, or don’t, but please don’t tell me what I can say on here when so one asks me for a response.
MMT has not derailed a single thread, it has been of central relevance to every thread it has been mentioned in, it is about economics and economics are central to politics. Further, it has only become a theme in this thread because two anti MMTers, or rather two people who have no opinion about MMT but use personal jibes to derail any discussion of it, have made it so and on the back of that some asked a direct question.
Shall we have just one Brexit thread and ban Brexit from any other political discussion? Shall we have just one PR thread and ban any discussion of PR in any other political thread? No, and for good reason.
Economics is part of politics and has not derailed any discussion of politics, it has been derailed by people who do not have a contrary opinion, who do not formulate an arguments against a proposition, they just go straight for sticking their fingers in their ears and creating as much irrelevant noise as possible.