Two words. Matt Schlapp.
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America and the hate politics cause
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Skylark
Is it polarization or is it that most of the electorate don't like rapists?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."
33% of young voters don't want to be friends with political rivals
A similar Monmouth University poll from 2016 found that 7% of voters reported friendships ending due to the election.www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org
Solution to this 'polarization' is political parties to not put presidential candidates who hurt women on the ballot, not for us to become more comfortable with that reality.
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SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
"Matt Schlapp, the influential chairman of the American Conservative Union, is facing additional allegations of sexual assault that apparently took place before the incident that launched a more than $9 million sexual misconduct lawsuit against him last year.
Carlton Huffman, a Republican staffer on Herschel Walker’s US senate campaign, initially accused Schlapp of sexually assaulting him last year. Huffman had been assigned to drive Schlapp to campaign events in the Atlanta area and alleged Schlapp fondled him without his consent during a car ride in October 2022."
Yep, like that.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Or even "hoist", not "hoisted"
Or unless he owes you money.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
I personally know that friendships were ended and family members excommunicated other family members over the vote on brexit.
Honestly...I don't believe that.
Two gay men had sex in the sacred temple of democracy.
The Senate.
And yet the leftist brigade said nothing.
Soandso
ᛋᛏᚨᚾᛞ ᛋᚢᚱᛖ
Dear lord, you're still on about that? Why does it live rent free in your mind like this?
That too.Or even "hoist", not "hoisted"
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
I'll record myself doing so.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
The left has a deep passion for sticking things in people's asses.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
The screaming from around the world would be heard in space.
And many on the right also have a "wide stance" in lavatories.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
That's what they would call a sticky widget.
anna.
but mostly it's the same
I think this is more about Trump specifically and less about some generic different presidential candidate.
Rational Agnostic
Well-Known Member
No, it's not. The results are the same but the intention matters. You're implying that if I was harmed by someone unintentionally, then my well-being automatically does not matter to them at all. That's quite obviously false.
What the hell are you talking about?
Sure, it could be a reason for someone. Why not? I don't care what others' reasons for ending friendships are.
You're basically suggesting you can't work with 50% of your own country. That is problematic. That's kinda the point.
Agreed
No...
1) That's not what he said. And it's certainly not the only thing he's said that people find strongly disagreeable.
2) This isn't a 'left hates on the right' scenario. This is a much more unilateral polarisation.
I think you have drastically misinterpreted the topic of this thread, and more specifically misread my post.
Either that you you just don't understand the difference between "work" and "play".
You are talking about work. And yes, you need to be able to work with all kinds of people, people with different points of view. You need to treat these people civilly, professionally and work together to achieve your goals.
However this thread was about who you choose to be friends with. And my post that you are replying to specifically states "who you choose to spend time with socially". Do you understand the difference?