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.
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.”
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.