Young Democrats are right: There is no reason to date or befriend Trump voters

[dandi]

Now they've deluded themselves into actually believing we're all sitting around pining for their company. 

Nevilledog (30,416 posts)                                                                                                                       Wed Dec 8, 2021, 04:07PM

Young Democrats are right: There is no reason to date or befriend Trump voters





https://www.salon.com/2021/12/08/young-democrats-are-right-there-is-no-reason-to-date-or-befriend/

You have to give it to Axios: They know how to throw out some tasty bait. Their latest is irresistible for conservatives, who love any story that frames them as victims, and gives them the chance to blame the left for "incivility." Never mind obvious counter-examples such as the storming of the Capitol, gun-waving Christmas cards, and the entire person of Donald Trump.

"Young Dems more likely to despise the other party," blares Tuesday's Axios headline, noting in the article that "5% of Republicans said they wouldn't be friends with someone from the opposite party, compared to 37% of Democrats," and "71% of Democrats wouldn't go on a date with someone with opposing views, versus 31% of Republicans."

Unsurprisingly, this delicious bait worked exactly as intended, at least in social media reactions.

On the right, there was a lot of trumpeting how this supposedly proves the left are the ones who are "really" intolerant. Radio talker Matt Murphy whined that liberals "don't believe in our republic cannot abide people who think differently than them." As if not getting to have sex with or go to parties with liberals is exactly the same as having your basic rights as a citizen stripped from you.

"This doesn't bode well," complained GOP lawyer and ABC commentator Sarah Isgur, who previously defended the Trump administration's policy of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border as a former spokesperson in the Justice Department.

*snip*

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216126657

Star Member TheRealNorth (4,493 posts)
6. Why should someone date someone that doesn't respect their thoughts or beliefs....

We wouldn't say Christians MUST date people outside of their religion. That's a personal decision.

Star Member brush (38,649 posts)
3. They're absolutely right. Socializing/dating republicans now...

is equivalent back in the day to dating/socializing with klan members. That's what the republican party has become.

Star Member MagickMuffin (12,344 posts)
10. Well the women should definitely not date the PB or any of the other incels



They'd be raped before the date was over.

They sure seem to have a lot of rape fantasies lately.

Star Member TheRealNorth (4,493 posts)
28. Exactly

You can no longer be around these people without them making some sort of over the top political comment. Their politics is wrapped up in their identity.

 

Maine Abu El Banat (2,959 posts)
30. They crossed a line

And can never make it right.

hadEnuf (1,160 posts)
38. Yes Republicans, it's true:

we think you suck and are a bunch of assholes. We don't cuddle up to abusers and to traitors like you. It's absurd of you to think that we would.

You've made it crystal that you hate our guts. Now you're upset that we won't go on a date with you?

Evolve Dammit (7,940 posts)
50. Who would want to interact with a sick, brainwashed cultist? Yewww.

Once again, DUmmies misinterpret the data. Just because most Republicans "would be" open to being friends with a Democrat/liberal doesn't we're all actively yearning to be so. Nor does it mean we'd be put out if our hands were slapped away. There's a difference in "would be" and "want to be."

Compared to the contemporary Left, conservatives are very tolerant. Unless you're a raving moonbat, we're comfortable being around a wide range of people of different cultures, lifestyles and political persuasions. Very few of us have political litmus tests that we put at the forefront when first meeting others, unlike "progressives."

And when we point out those differences in tolerance, we're not complaining that you won't bless us with your attention. We don't need it.  It's simply to expose the hypocrisy of a group who advertises "peace, love and understanding" while harboring constant seething hatred for anyone who is not toeing their line. Anyone to the right of Far Left is labeled "literally a Nazi." One day you're counting someone as a great friend and ally and the next they are written off as mortal enemies if they venture the slightest outside your orthodoxy.

Such is the level of self-importance liberals attach to themselves. We're all supposed to be devastated that they don't love us.

[thundley4]

I remember when certain freaks on their side were upset by the fact that most straight males want nothing to do with dating transgendered freaks.

[Karin]

Now you're upset that we won't go on a date with you?

Who ever said that, you stupid ****?  I wouldn't touch a democrat with a ten foot pole.  First of all, they're all ugly.  Second of all, they're all humorless.  And third, they're DUmb as a bag of hammers. 

[franksolich]

This is as good a time as any to drag this out and show it off.

A left-leaning think tank was hired by the left-leaning Atlantic Monthly to survey the levels of tolerance, county-by county, in the United States.

Not surprisingly, the "Trumpsters" were found to be among the most tolerant of the electorate, while the primitives and those in Democrat-run areas tended to be among the most bigoted, narrow-minded, and intolerant.

There's a map, in addition to the article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/us-counties-vary-their-degree-partisan-prejudice/583072/

[enslaved1]

I remember when certain freaks on their side were upset by the fact that most straight males want nothing to do with dating transgendered freaks.

Now they are upset that lesbians won't date or sleep with trans women

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10132311/Some-lesbians-feel-pressured-sex-trans-women-fears-branded-transphobic.html

Back on topic, the article just goes to show the young/new/extereme/whatever Leftist moonbats don't care about getting along, compromise, or conversation, just getting their way at whatever costs, and are proud of it.  Just look at the secondary headline

Polling shows many young Democrats won't socialize with Republicans — which just shows they have self-respect

As well as several comments in the article.

If you — quite correctly — believe that Republicans are plotting to destroy democracy, then why would you want to be friends with people who support that?

In addition, having sex with men who back the party of forced childbirth is just ill-advised.

[jukin]

I feel a disturbance in the democrat "love" and "tolerance" force.

It is as if 100 million decent and civilized people breathed a sigh of relief and had a hearty laugh.

[Zathras]

Got some news for these DUmbasses. If you're basing whether or not you want a relation with someone, romantic or otherwise, primarily on what their political beliefs are, I wouldn't want you as a friend at all and am better off for it. I live in California. The majority of my friends are liberal and/or Democrat. I could care less about what their political leanings are. It doesn't make one bit of a difference to me.

[FiddyBeowulf]

I found it difficult to get close to most democrats since covid-19 but I have not figured out why.

[Ralph Wiggum]

One thing ignored other than the obvious clickbait by Axios, this is a survey of college students.  Not certain about the rest of you, but I'm not exactly in the market to date an 18-22 year old.  The only reason a desirable college "chick" might be interested in me is for my bank account.

Not that my looks are bad, as I was of course voted the "Hottest Chick at CU/CC, whose hotness transcends gender."