Ray From Cleveland
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Happens more often than you think. James Carville once stated he and his wife simply don't discuss politics. They've been married for 25 years. I've also read that only 55% of the married couples in the US who are both of the same political affiliation.
Opposites do attract.
Not in my household....I'd send my wife and or daughters packing in a hot second should one turn LefTarded.
I don't know. I've dated leftist women before. I don't mean radicals, just people who felt differently than I do, especially about social issues. I knew this one girl I was nuts about. She was a sister of a guy I knew. She was as left as you can get; I mean fresh out of college left. But other than politics, we had a lot in common, and in fact we often discussed politics in a friendly but competitive way. She didn't like the idea of us getting together, but she had a history of keeping friends and lovers separate. Very pretty and got a lot of offers.
Would we have made it together? Who knows. She was kind of a party girl which is one of the things I didn't care about. I'm more the homebody type. But after that when we seen each other in a store or something, we both kinda look at each other as if to say "what if?"
I remember those days...back when people weren't defined by their politics and ones political affiliation wasn't necessarily a direct reflection of their character. Boy have things changed. I don't know about where you're at... but out here there's just no way for conservatives to gel with Lefties...not on any level.
It would all depend on how high politics was on your list.
About a third of my family are leftists. I don't mean immediate family, but Uncles and cousins. My dad was a conservative his entire life, but as he aged and could no longer go back to work, he allowed the Democrats to scare the hell out of him with their "Republicans want to take away...." talk.
I get along very well with all my family and I love them dearly. We never had a family doing where we ended up hating each other over our political stances. Every event ends up with kisses and hugs regardless how intense our political discussions got. That's the way it should be.
It's like I've always said, take your politics seriously, but don't take it personally. Because people who take their politics personally end up with a lot of enemies.
Glad to hear you and your family can separate politics from your personal connections...that is the way it's supposed to be.
That's quite a task to accomplish these days with politics being so polarized and in your face. (social networking, media...etc.)
We can't watch a football game or a 15 minute news segment without politics surfacing.
The biggest problem is that there is almost no common ground between the parties anymore....a Democrat has ZERO in common with a Republican...there is almost no way the two can be like-minded on any level. It wasn't long ago when the parties shared lots of common ground, they were separated by the small stuff...That ship has sailed and sailed for good.
This is very true.
On the right, the Tea Party types are threatening the Establishment, and it seems we want to steer our party more right. On the left, the US Communist Party endorsed their last three presidential candidates and couldn't say enough about Bernie Sanders.
So where is the middle ground between constitutionalism and Communism? There is none. Politically, we've become oil and water.