Quote:Poll: Almost Half Of Leftists Say They Won't Be Friends With Trump Supporters

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July 21, 2017 18.5k views

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People tend to hang out with people they like. That often means people with whom they share values and community and life experiences. But now, it appears that our political polarization has grown so wide that Americans who voted differently in 2016 don’t want to hang out with each other.

That, at least, is the story from the Pew Research Center, which found that 47% of “liberal Democrats” stated that if a friend voted Trump, it would strain the friendship. For all Democrats, 35% stated the same. For Republicans, that number was just 13% when applied to Hillary Clinton.

Now, perhaps that number would change if Hillary had won. But there is more than a whiff of elemental scorn that Democrats hold for Trump voters. They don’t see what was so bad about Hillary that would necessitate a vote for Trump; they think that a vote for Trump could never be made in a good faith effort to help the country, but rather was an endorsement of Trump’s worst behavior. This feeling, combined with the fact that Leftists live in bubbles — as Aaron Blake of The Washington Post points out, 47% of people who voted Clinton had zero Trump supporting friends — means that the Left will continue to polarize and pillory.

Only 28% of Democrats say they aren’t stressed by talking with those who differ on Trump, which means that the vast majority of Democrats won’t even deign to discuss the issues. That leads to less knowledge of the typical Republican, and the lazy intellectual construct that turns Trump voters into an “other” to be opposed on grounds of supposed bigotry.

And that scorn will, in turn, drive more and more conservatives into Trump’s arms. Much of the Trump movement was built on a reactionary and justified anger against Leftist character assassination — and the Left’s solution seems to be more character assassination.

(07-22-2017, 11:50 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: http://www.dailywire.com/news/18854/poll-almost-half-leftists-say-they-wont-be-friends-ben-shapiro

This is pretty crazy. Has anyone here cut a friend off who voted against your beliefs? I have plenty of leftists and progressives as friends... it's fun. Being a democrat leads to emotional beliefs which explains how irrational they can behave.

(07-22-2017, 12:10 PM)Benton Wrote: So half of an unknown percentage said it would strain their friendship is the same as half of everyone on the left refuse to be friends?



Tad extreme interpretation there.

(07-22-2017, 12:10 PM)Benton Wrote: So half of an unknown percentage said it would strain their friendship is the same as half of everyone on the left refuse to be friends?



Tad extreme interpretation there.

(07-22-2017, 01:18 PM)Millhouse Wrote: I stopped being friends with a couple of people that believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and that humans co-existed with dinosaurs at one point.

But I havent stopped being friends with someone that is either far to the right or to the left.

(07-22-2017, 01:06 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Been widely written about that leftists drop more friends on Facebook and other Social media outlets over trump.

(07-22-2017, 12:10 PM)Benton Wrote: So half of an unknown percentage said it would strain their friendship is the same as half of everyone on the left refuse to be friends?



Tad extreme interpretation there.

(07-22-2017, 05:15 PM)CharvelPlaya Wrote: Wait.....I thought righties don't believe in polls.

(07-22-2017, 05:59 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Well, we are looking at a Mother Jones-esque site on the right side of things.

(07-22-2017, 05:03 PM)Vas Deferens Wrote: Says a lot about some peoples perception of friendship as existing purely online. #PATHETIC. #FRIENDLESS.

(07-22-2017, 07:17 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Mother Jones just makes things up

DW is an actual news site

(07-22-2017, 07:59 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: That opinion is one based upon your ideological slant. They are both very biased websites reporting news that is slathered with biased opinion in order to validate partisan opinions of those that read it.

(07-22-2017, 08:59 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: Remember, it's only fake news if you don't agree with it. 

If you agree with it, it's an "actual news site"

(07-22-2017, 07:21 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Leftists

(07-22-2017, 07:59 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: That opinion is one based upon your ideological slant. They are both very biased websites reporting news that is slathered with biased opinion in order to validate partisan opinions of those that read it.

(07-22-2017, 09:08 PM)Vas Deferens Wrote: Article discussed in person friendships. You equate that to social media relationships.

#LONELY

(07-22-2017, 01:06 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Been widely written about that leftists drop more friends on Facebook and other Social media outlets over trump.

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