Ahh no worries the thread seems to be dying down some, anyway - I don't want people generating responses for the sake of it (conversation takes it natural ending).
It happens a lot with me with the posts I make - they tend to be the more finite endings of discussions a lot. When you tend to do this a lot / know politics like the back of your hand you tend to steer where the discussion goes unfortunately and I do a lot of that inadvertently.
Not your fault at all - just the natural flow of a topic.
(Ask Luther, it's a miracle that these don't all end up being discussions about breasts / lingerie and dresses).