Dating those who differ politically

Trust me over population shouldn't even be a concern because earth will cleanse itself of us . A few earthquakes and a nice plague will remedy that problem real quick.

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I don't know about that. Despite all the disasters, and airborne illnesses, the population will continue to grow. Even with one-child policies all over the world, it wouldn't help much. However, if it gets back down to 4 Billion (1970s) we probably would see some measures of economic turnaround.

 

Cancer may be that plague. Many believe it wasnt around nearly as much before the industrial revolution. A side affect of our advancement.

 

I'm thinking disease prone third world countries will take the hit. Milaria kills at least a million a year in Africa alone not to mention syphillus and other STDs are rising in Latin America again. I figure some sort of drug resistant strand will emerge soon and because many of these places have poor medical care they'll start dropping by the millions per month.

 

Most cancers kill too slowly.

It would be some sort of virus that occurs naturally or something that our idiot governments accidentally release into the atmosphere.

That's my opinion anyway.

 

I tried it once with a Conservative Girl but it didn't work because we differed on so many issues.

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I guess this is an old thread which got bumped. DON'T DO IT. I married a Republican. He was not particularly politically oriented so I thought it would be ok, but it turns out that someone's political perspective has a lot to do with their moral perspective.

I could never seriously date a man who wasn't a liberal (ok, he may not need to be quite as liberal as I am), or who was homophobic, racist, or misogynistic. In fact it's doubtful we'd get past the "let's meet for coffee" stage.

 

What about those who don't care about politics at all? There are plenty of people in America who don't even know what a Democrat is.

 

That would be a tough one for me, since I'm so politically oriented (but do not belong to a specific party). If someone doesn't care about the mess this country is in, I'd have a hard time thinking we had a lot of other things in common.

 

I couldn't care less about politics, but, thankfully, neither could my man. I could never be with someone who was seriously interested in politics. A healthy concern, or knowledge of politics is fine, but not if they talk about it or expect others to be interested.

 

I'm in the same boat.

It's cool to discuss but I don't get passionate about it like some.


I don't even like mentioning that I'm not really into politics because then people get sensitive about that too.


I agree with certain ideas and concepts for different reasons, but I don't identify with a particular group. Maybe the "independent" group.

 

I'm with you on this thought, Pixie, especially the bolded part. I've noticed that as well. It's important to me that my partner view the world in somewhat similar ways as I do. Life is about much more than what goes on between couples. I've to know that we share a judgement free attitude toward others, and many other important matters.

Politics also holds a significant role for me as it's only through politics that change can be affected. If not for politics in general life would look a lot different in many regards.

 

Not accepting someone because of their political beliefs is like 2 gangs fighting over turf that none of them own.

 

To be in a IR like Carville and Matalin would be a little tough since the White conservative would be obivious to the racism agains the race of his/her partner. Would Virginia Lamp would marry a liberal Black man instead of Clarence Thomas? I have not heard or seen a conservative IR couple agknoledge the Lovings who paved the way for them to get married without hassle.

 

If they talk about it a lot as their central conversation, they are thinking about running for political office. Just food for thought.

It has more to do with maintaining stability within the relationship. It's hard to do that when both parties are always at odds with everything.

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