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repost from yesterday - do you have friends w/ wildly divergent political views?
DHs' college housemate and her DH are moving back to the area. I've only met them a handful of times, but they seem nice. They are super polar opposities of us politically - the husband particularly, he's a spokesman for the MD Tea Party and is interviewed for talk radio, etc. The wife messaged me last week about getting together soon. I'd like to have more local friends w/ small kids and its not like I'm obsessed w/ politics or anything. . but I'm just curious whether this will be the challenge I suspect.
Re: repost from yesterday - do you have friends w/ wildly divergent political views?
Here is what I responded yesterday:
I think you are just worried he will get you over to the other side
ha ha
Lol!! I have some seriously extreme friends from law school. Most of them are clear headed enough to have intelligent debates and keep an open mind -- if they weren't I think that would be a problem; but otherwise I think it's usually fine.
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I don't mind people with wildly opposing view points. I mind pushy, arrogant people with wildly opposing view points who find it fun or meaningful to challenge me, push my buttons, insult my views, etc. I can respect your right to feel the way that you do about the issues, but it's a two-way street.
ETA: Oh, and it would be rough to hang out in a family settings, 'cause my husband is very political and very vocal.
I have friends with different political views (I'm a fairly liberal democrat), but they tend to only be as different as moderate republicans.
The people who have wildly opposite views (very conservative republicans) *tend* to be (not always, but very often) very religious, don't drink, have had kids at a younger age, etc., and I just don't encounter them that often because they don't have the same lifestyle as me.
I have a friend from college who converted to Mormonism, got married, became very republican, never finished college, and had two kids by 24, and while I still think she's nice and like having dinner with her, it would be really hard to be close with her again ... our lives are just too different, and she's very vocal about being anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, anti-obama, and I don't like having political conversations with friends, particularly when I just can't understand their viewpoints at all.
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