I think you're wrong about the Mods, John. They are working very hard to be fair under very difficult circumstances.
There are people here whose only purpose is to cause dissension and they are trying to prevent that from happening.
For the most part, yes.
I keep point out that all that work and the accompanying trust and respect can be lost very easily. They should be looked at as a warning beacon; in that, should certain actions metastasize, we could end up on the same road as the TOS.
They didn't chose to become what they became. They fell into it with a poor choice here and a bad decision there... and it snowballed. What was a bad decision/poor choice in the past became the standard.