1) As I stated in my reply when I closed them, we have EotW for a reason. The fastest way to politicize a question is to include viewpoints on conservativism and and liberalism. If you're going to politicize something to that extreme, you can't have random spam. This leads me to point 2.

2) Those threads were full of spam. Spam by several members who are currently or have been in the very near past, banned from EoEO/EotW for spamming. I'm not going through those threads and deleting every spam post. If the people who made those threads want to discuss them, they can remake the threads in EotW. There's no rule against that.