How do you handle political discussions on your forum?

[Brueskie]

At the best of times, it can be hard to keep things civil when political topics comes up. Now, during this exceptionally contentious political season here in the USA, it's damn near impossible.

I pulled out of one administration position on one site and a moderation position on another some months ago because I was already getting tired of dealing with it. None of the sites I own currently have the traffic levels to worry about such, but if they did, I would probably delete the political/social forums all together. The closer we come to November, the worse it is going to get.