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.
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.
Purity spirals? How do you find the middle ground between freedom and fascism?
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.
https://lemmy.world/post/38823368
This about sums it up.
Compromise doesn’t have to mean meeting in the middle. You could agree to allow abortions and require hospitals to provide guns for newborns.
What’s the compromise with the neighbors across the street that voted to put half their neighbors in concentration camps and outlaw abortion?
Do we throw brown folks under the bus? Women? Transfolks like myself?
Which out group do we let them hurt in the name of compromise?
Struggle sessions are one thing.
Inviting the neighbor over, who voted to take away my healthcare and put me in a concentration camp, is another.
I’m for forgiveness and second chances. But I don’t call fascist sympathizers friend.
So no, I don’t hang out with folks who voted for Trump. Not without them admitting they fucked up first.
A Rebulican that voted for Harris I’d be far more tolerant of, if such unicorns exist.