The worst is when you’re in a long-term relationship with a liberal or an open right-winger and all the problematic opinions keep coming with every new event. It’s always become a tug-of-war between trying to respect them as a person and questioning if they’re a sociopath.
I don’t even think I’d date a socdem anymore unless they’re on board with Under No Pretexts. A previous partner terrified me when I said “we might have to run the Canadian border at some point to escape Trump and his militias” and she refused to touch a gun then or learn how to safely handle one prior to needing to use it. Ideology isn’t a test of their opinions so much as it is a test of how they’ll respond to conditions, and as conditions worsen they’ll either tune out or become reactionary.
Lol…not sure if she still is but my ex and baby mamma, believe it or not, was a 4channing, gamer gate, sargon of ahkad watching, SJW fear mongerer when we split. Pretty sure she’s at least anti trump but…yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah…suffice it to say we both took *exceptionally * divergent political paths and outlooks on life over the past decade or so. “Irreconcilable differences” is one way to say it I guess. Thankfully I have primary, and parallel parenting and disengagement is easier then ever in the modern era but still…god bless my poor kiddo for being torn between the two of us.
