Political polarization at its best. Nothing to be proud of.
A third of young voters said they wouldn't want to be friends with someone who voted for a different presidential candidate: poll
"-The US has increasingly become politically polarized in recent decades.
-A third of respondents in a recent poll said they can't even be friends with rival party supporters.
-A similar poll in 2016 found that 7% of voters reported friendships ending because of the election.
The poll, conducted between February 3 and 14 by
The Generation Lab and Axios to 1,073 young adults, revealed that 33% of respondents said they would "definitely not" or "probably not" be open to being friends with someone who voted for the opposing party's presidential nominee (selecting Republican former President Donald Trump or Democratic current President Joe Biden, specifically).
Monday's survey comes around seven years after a
Monmouth University poll found that 7% of voters said they ended friendships over the vitriolic race between Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Those friendships ended, the poll found, as 70% of respondents said the presidential campaign "brought out the worse in people."
A similar Monmouth University poll from 2016 found that 7% of voters reported friendships ending due to the election.
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This has to do with the Democrat Party, which is the party of hate and two faced division. The Democrats usually have nothing positive to run on, so they fixate on mudslinging, negativity and doom and gloom. They would prefer a rigged court drama with Trump, than to discuss issues. They pit people against each other by polarizing people into groups; divide and conquer strategy. They defined all men as bad, and all women as good; opposites to skim the women voter. The men become the perpetual target of the Lefty crap, unless you are a lefty man and then dual standards apply. If your on team hypocrite you get a pass in terms of all their scams.
Democrats are better at the games of politics; fake news, but are not very skilled in practical matters. They depend on an increasing number of impractical young people they try to groom in public schools; dependents. They even pitted children against their parents, to push forward a transgender division scheme, as well as pitted unborn babies against adult women. The DNC reminds me of a gossip at a party, trying to start fights between people, while acting as the confident of both. The two fight and the gossip moves on.
This pathological behavior became worst when Donald Trump entered the race for President in 2016. During the primaries, the two faced Democrats supported the long shot Trump, because he was seen as the spoiler, doing damage to the more likely Republican nominees. Trump was used as a tool for division within the Republican Party. This was partially effective, even in the long term.
Once Trump did the impossible and won the Republican nomination, the other face of the two faced Democrats, appeared. Now it was full time mud slinging, lies and gossip through their fake new propaganda machine and criminal intel division; Russian Collusion scam. Trump was running on positive messaging, that first required getting rid of the messes, the moron DNC had created; open border immigration, economy killing regulation, Arab war making machine, and swamp corruption. Since the DNC cannot run on anything good, they did what they do best, which is political gaming with a criminal edge, while blaming everyone else.
Luckily, the DNC is now imploding under its own rules of gossip engagement. It is still pitting people against one another, but now this is now happening internally; immigrants versus citizen minorities, Jews versus Arabs, rich verse poor Democrats, lawful versus criminal Democrats. Trump is picking up votes in this DNC internal division.
In my experience the Liberals are the most intolerant. They have smaller brains and can only process half the data at a time. If you add more than half, they melt down. The DNC is more than glad to give them only half the data, and the rest gossip, to make them loyal.