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.
Right, because the Democratic Party is considered more honorable than the assholes in the Confederate Party. Who wants to aspire to be friends with Confederates?
My very much not in a cult F-I-L gets mad everytime I tell him to turn off Faux News when he spouts propaganda.
He retorts back he watches and reads all kinds of news like Drudge Report, OAN, and New Max. He also claims to have a black friend
He retorts back he watches and reads all kinds of news like Drudge Report, OAN, and New Max.
Holy shit, what an open mind. What is he, a LIEberal?
/s
That’s because people who aren’t MAGA don’t consider MAGA people friends any longer. We drew the line in the sand long ago…
Narcissists often think that people who tolerate their presence all want to be friends with them
The takeaway here is that Republicans are generally confused, lonely, unprincipled and two-faced.
It’s not a “difference of opinion” when your party think I should be put in a concentration camp even if you know I’m “one of the good ones.” You’re all the bad ones, and I know it.
Very well stated, thank you.
“I’m not racist I have a black friend” energy
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Pointed that out in my comment too. Republicans probably think theyre friends with Democrats who are “one of the good ones.” Dems are smart enough to know Republicans are all bad
Exactly, thank you.
Interpretation: Republicans more likely to be unaware that people they consider friends actually hate them.
so just like abusive husbands who think the marriage is amazing
They’re more comfortable with lying.
What they are thinking of, is they used to have a good friend in the other party. They just didn’t get the note that, that friend stopped considering them as a friend.
I have family with problematic views, but I wouldn’t call them friends.
Yeah, or that. I certainly jettisoned several people over their political affiliation over the last few years.
Lol
Conservatives are vile creatures who think as long as they are polite to your face then everything is okay.
They don’t even need to do that. The ol’ deathbed confession and/or going to church on occasion will make up for a lifetime of behaving like a psychopath, right?
Dems need to get on my level and just not have any friends of any political persuasion
Let’s take the quiz, of possible reasons:
A. They are lying
B. They’re narcissistic
C. They don’t actually know what “friend” means
D. 64% of Democrats that have a friend in the GOP and the 82% of GOP that say they do are one to Many.
E. 64% of Democrats don’t know what a friend is
F. Democrats are lying in this study.
D. 64% of Democrats that have a friend in the GOP and the 82% of GOP that say they do are one to Many.
Maybe the relationship is one-to-one and actually there are way more people willing to identify as a Democrat 🤷🏿♂️
(I don’t actually think this, just a random thought)
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.
Purity spirals? How do you find the middle ground between freedom and fascism?
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.”
Probably because Republicans are about 20 points more likely to already be accommodating.
It’s part of Murc’s Law. It’s just a given that Republicans can and will behave like broken individuals with psychopathy and arrested development and are completely incapable of getting any better or growing up. It is the responsibility of Democrats to reach out and coddle and “compromise” with such types, even if the Republicans’ policies have the end game of these people being erased or imprisoned or excommunicated or treated like second-class citizens…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murc's_law
The idea reflects an asymmetry in press coverage, where Democrats are assumed to be responsible for policy outcomes and are expected to compromise, while Republicans are often portrayed as passive or structurally constrained. As Paul Campos summarizes, “American politics operates within a frame in which the party of the government is the Democrats, while the Republicans are the party opposed to the government. This holds without regard to which party happens to be in power at any moment … The Democrats think the government should do things, and the Republicans think it shouldn’t…”[4] He also describes the dynamic by noting that “Republicans are like rocks rolling down hill or perhaps sharks eating seals: they do what they do because that’s just what they are, so there’s no point in holding them responsible for anything, since they could not do ottherwise [sic]”.[4]
I’ve been noticing this for decades and could not put my finger on what I objected to, and now that it is named and properly described, holy shit, you just cannot unsee it. It’s not confined to the press, it is EVERYWHERE, all the time, and those finger-wagging nannies that try to pull this shit look all the stupider for it now that it has a name…
Giving people a pass for being intolerant is writing off the people they are being intolerant towards. And if you actually care about those intolerant people you would shun them in the hope they recognize their mistake instead of coddling them like they’re incapable of being an adult.
Shunning them doesn’t work work though. It just pushes people to further radicals. Friendship can actually keep people from and sometimes bring them back from extremism. Shunning feels a lot better for the shunner though.
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.
It just leads to the Overton window getting dragged even further to the right.
