Among Republicans, 82% say they have a close friend who is a member of the other party, compared with 64% of Democrats, according to the NBC News poll.
Despite a polarized, partisan political environment, most voters who consider themselves a member of a party say they have a close friend on the other side of the aisle, according to the latest national NBC News poll.
Self-identified moderate Republicans (87%) were 8 points more likely to say they have a close Democratic friend than conservative Republicans (79%). By the same token, moderate Democrats (78%) were 21 points more likely to say they have a close friend who is a Republican than liberal Democrats (57%).
Among voters categorized as “core” GOP supporters, 77% have a close Democratic friend, while 90% of “soft” Republican voters do. There was a similar gap between “core” Democratic voters, at 57%, and “soft” Democrats, at 73%, when it comes to having a close Republican friend.
I shouldn’t be surprised Lemmy thinks this is a good thing. It’s really a problem for Democrats, and it’s a big reason trump won in the first place. You need people that disagree with you on occasion.
I don’t think it’s good, I think it’s unavoidable. For decades the right has been a party of, for lack of a better term, evil. However, they’d hidden it under a cloak of libertarianism/freedom and religiosity. This gave them plausible deniability. Sure, some voters were responding to dog whistles or were otherwise drawn in by the undercurrent of evil, but it was forgivable to vote conservative because the cloak gave them plausible deniability.
Trump threw away the cloak. He’ll bring out a fragment of it and wave it around when someone points out hypocrisy, but it’s so transparently performative that the plausible deniability is gone. Those in power on the right are openly greedy, hateful, petty, dishonest, racist, authoritarian, fascist, etc. Anyone who still supports them has to either be so ignorant and frustrating to deal with that they aren’t worth your time or so willfully ignorant that they are difficult to forgive.
I still think they can figure it out, but the leopard will likely need to eat their face and the faces of everyone they love and go on a villainous “This was my plan all along mwahahahah” speech before that happens. Or Trump will just say “AI, Fake News” and they’ll find more loved ones’ faces to feed them.
There’s a time and place for disagreements, but basic human rights ain’t it. If this was the 1980s and we were all arguing over whether the wealthy getting yet another tax break would actually benefit the poor you might have a point. At this point the argument is about whether trans people should be allowed to exist and whether birth right citizenship should be removed (to say nothing of the concentration camps). Those are not disagreements anyone needs to hear.
That happens when groups get into purity spirals. When you push people who mostly agree with you away, they might find people that you really don’t agree with.
I don’t “mostly agree” with anyone who supports the literal concentration camps currently operating in my country.
Ah more of that enlightened centrist bullshit. FO
Purity spirals? How do you find the middle ground between freedom and fascism?
Yeah, those people are the centrist/slight right Democrats. The Republican party can fuck all the way off. Just because an ideology exists doesn’t mean it deserves to be respected.
Writing off half the population is part of the problem. Not all of them are terrible, but if you shun them, the only place accepting them is even further right.
It’s weird that this never applies in reverse. It’s always “Democrats need to be more accommodating.”
It’s part of Murc’s Law. It’s just a given that Republicans can and will behave like broken individuals with psychopathy and arrested development and are completely incapable of getting any better or growing up. It is the responsibility of Democrats to reach out and coddle and “compromise” with such types, even if the Republicans’ policies have the end game of these people being erased or imprisoned or excommunicated or treated like second-class citizens…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murc's_law
I’ve been noticing this for decades and could not put my finger on what I objected to, and now that it is named and properly described, holy shit, you just cannot unsee it. It’s not confined to the press, it is EVERYWHERE, all the time, and those finger-wagging nannies that try to pull this shit look all the stupider for it now that it has a name…
Probably because Republicans are about 20 points more likely to already be accommodating.
They’re fucking liars, dude
This ain’t a sign of tolerance among Republicans.
Giving people a pass for being intolerant is writing off the people they are being intolerant towards. And if you actually care about those intolerant people you would shun them in the hope they recognize their mistake instead of coddling them like they’re incapable of being an adult.
Shunning them doesn’t work work though. It just pushes people to further radicals. Friendship can actually keep people from and sometimes bring them back from extremism. Shunning feels a lot better for the shunner though.
Yeah, I don’t really care at this point. I’m tired of people acting like it’s wrong to not be willing to compromise with a group of people that rubber stamp inhumane treatment of other people. This admin is doing fascist Nazi shit and yet I still see Republicans covering for them and supporting them. Until Republicans can stop condoning and supporting evil, they deserve to be ostracized.
I do not give a single fuck if it drives them further right. Trying to compromise with these people has not done anything but drive them to the far right anyway, so why should they be validated by continuing to take them seriously?
Compromising with them leads them to believe they are right.
It just leads to the Overton window getting dragged even further to the right.