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I have two black neighbors to the south and the neighbor to the north has a sticker on his car that says GOP & Trump are traitors, so no. But I can still get along with them and don't go out of my way to throw politics in their face. The one neighbor to the south is probably racist but I don't let him drag me into conversations about that. NOthing positive would come of it.
I live in a blue city within a swing state. My neighbors are leftists for the most part. So, no, they don't agree with my politics.
This.
To this I would add, my family (both sides) swing mostly left, some right, and none of them including my wife are down with my anarchism. To be logically and morally consistent in politics is to be alone on an island.
Right, because Harvard Trained Lawyers and Constitutional Scholars vs. Reality TV Real Estate Con man....we KNOW the Harvard Man is going to not know things....
More harm has been done to the United States by the educated elite than by any other group, and education has little to do with my distaste for either Obama or Hillary. For that matter, Trump’s education level has no bearing on my distaste for him.
Ironically, the Obama presidency holds a large portion of the blame for Trump’s election. That doesn’t change the fact that America got screwed over by both of the major parties in 2016. Neither Trump nor Hillary should have even been a contender for their respective party’s nomination. Yet, that’s who the major parties shoved down our throats. We were given the choice between the most disliked and untrusted woman in Washington who promised to continue the Obama policies that were “fundamentally transforming” America, a narcissistic jackass who at least offered the possibility of a better future, and a few third party candidates that, while in some cases were more presidential than either, got so little airtime that they may as well have been nonexistent. It turned into a partisan battle over who could elect the biggest *******. Idiocracy has, in fact, become a documentary.
Generally no. I live in Illinois and I am conservative so do the math. The liberals are very out there with their politics and the conservatives keep to themselves because they will be called racist, etc...blah, blah. However, the conservatives are starting to reach out behind the scenes to each other because they are generally fed up, especially in Illinois.
More harm has been done to the United States by the educated elite than by any other group, and education has little to do with my distaste for either Obama or Hillary. For that matter, Trump’s education level has no bearing on my distaste for him.
Ironically, the Obama presidency holds a large portion of the blame for Trump’s election. That doesn’t change the fact that America got screwed over by both of the major parties in 2016. Neither Trump nor Hillary should have even been a contender for their respective party’s nomination. Yet, that’s who the major parties shoved down our throats. We were given the choice between the most disliked and untrusted woman in Washington who promised to continue the Obama policies that were “fundamentally transforming” America, a narcissistic jackass who at least offered the possibility of a better future, and a few third party candidates that, while in some cases were more presidential than either, got so little airtime that they may as well have been nonexistent. It turned into a partisan battle over who could elect the biggest *******. Idiocracy has, in fact, become a documentary.
There is truth in what you say but the GOP fought tooth and nail to keep Trump from getting the nomination. He was not shoved down our throats. That may actually bolster your idiocracy analogy though.
More harm has been done to the United States by the educated elite than by any other group, and education has little to do with my distaste for either Obama or Hillary. For that matter, Trump’s education level has no bearing on my distaste for him.
Ironically, the Obama presidency holds a large portion of the blame for Trump’s election. That doesn’t change the fact that America got screwed over by both of the major parties in 2016. Neither Trump nor Hillary should have even been a contender for their respective party’s nomination. Yet, that’s who the major parties shoved down our throats. We were given the choice between the most disliked and untrusted woman in Washington who promised to continue the Obama policies that were “fundamentally transforming” America, a narcissistic jackass who at least offered the possibility of a better future, and a few third party candidates that, while in some cases were more presidential than either, got so little airtime that they may as well have been nonexistent. It turned into a partisan battle over who could elect the biggest *******. Idiocracy has, in fact, become a documentary.
Are you serious? Trump won fair and square. The party didn't shove him down our throats. They fought tooth and nail against him.
Yes, all of us are on the same page and we talk about it frequently. If someone isn't they sure are keeping quiet about it. Actually my whole county is as well. We are not just Red, but a deep shade of Red.
Same here, in Western Pennsylvania. Everybody I know hated Obama, and I don't know anyone who supported Hillary. We went solid red in '16, and likely will again in '20. No one wants illegal aliens or refugees bused to our town, translators in our schools, or our guns confiscated (we have a huge gun culture). Liberals would probably call our attitudes "racist", "white supremacist", or "xenophobic". This would result in an eye roll or shrug. Whatever. We are what we are.
This is a question I am curious about. Do most people live in a place where others agree with them politically? On the basis of either voter registration by political party and/or political party electoral dominance, do you share the political values of people in your town, county, and state? Does it impact how much or little you like where you live?
I'll start off. My username was created a few years back when I thought I would live in New Jersey forever, now I am not sure as I am trying to secure better employment. This is related, as I blame socialism for the lack of a good job market in New Jersey. New Jersey has almost 1 million more registered Democrats than Republicans, no Republican presidential candidate has carried our state since 1988, no Republican has been elected to the U.S. Senate from our state since 1972, and all but one of our Congressional districts and a majority of our State Legislature is controlled by Democrats. We currently have a Democratic Governor, but do elect Republicans every so often to that office. I spent most of my life in a solidly Republican county and community, though recently moved to a county that is trending blue though has historically been Republican.
I don't think politics impacts my appreciation and love for New Jersey's culture, food, history, charming towns, and beautiful suburban and rural landscape, but I do disagree with the misguided priorities of Democrats who would rather spend money on building a wind farm off our coast than improving our roads. I think the fact that my home county is solidly Republican made me love it more, but that's because at the county level taxes were kept lower than in neighboring Democratic counties and the county features great parks and county roads that are well-maintained by New Jersey standards. I was never a big fan of my hometown but that had more to do with the local social scene than politics.
I'm a speck of red in a lake of blue, in the land of red. Most cities are like that.
But, with that said, I know the neighbor to the left of me and the neighbor across the street are, maybe more conservative than I.
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