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Originally Posted by peter12
It is a fact that most of the people on here probably never spend their personal time with those whose political or moral views significantly differ from their own.
It's the infection feeding our sickness of moral absolutism and political hyper-partisanship where every debate becomes a fight to the death with a mortal enemy.
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Actually very untrue, at least in my experience. I'm a pretty staunch liberal feminist, drive a Prius, listen to NPR, I'm every cliche you can imagine. The salon I work at is heavily influenced by rural PA/WV, as we're right in that southwest corner of PA, far enough from the city that it trends pretty far red. So I'm regularly surrounded by clients and coworkers who are consistent GOP voters.
The funny part of talking with said voters is that none of them are actually really opposed to gay marriage. Several of them want universal healthcare. Our salon is located less than a mile from the PA headquarters of Mylan, the drug company at the center of the Epi-pen controversy, and people are irate at the cost of medications and at the ridiculous amount of money that Mylan's CEO makes every year. They complain about big corporations taking advantage of employees.
We actually see eye to eye on most of the issues.
But they're convinced that Trump is actually going to fix all of the problems, that Obama hates them because they're white. I've even heard that Michelle Obama is secretly transgender and Barack is secretly gay. They parrot Fox News headlines and ridiculous Facebook-shared conspiracy theories even though when you actually talk about the underlying issues--really they're voting against their own beliefs, but they believe what Sean Hannity tells them to believe.