Why do so many posters have trouble staying on topic?

After the election I floated that idea and was told, pretty clearly, that’s not going to happen. Let me go dig up that thread:

(@puzzlegal I didn’t realize until I looked for the thread that it was you that said that, I promise that was a coincidence, not a gotcha)

When I wrote that thread, I was exhausted from following all the political threads and really just wanted them to disappear for a while hence my suggestion that all (for some definition of ‘all’) political threads go in one, mutable, forum. I got over it (again, I was just worked up at the moment) but my point is that these two quotes seem to contradict each other.