I'd be happy to see the politics forum go, if it would stay gone. I even have it ignored. But I suspect that such discussions would crop up again all over the place, which is why the forum got created in the first place. Perhaps instead it could be made completely inaccessible to newbies (and search engines).
I vote for this idea. maybe in the profile you turn on access to "Other or Controversial forums" and you can't turn it on until your Jr. level or something like that.