Ask Lemmy

My county always votes red by a landslide, but I keep showing up.

I’m in a blue state, so not very. But I work in an interesting environment where people hold a lot of conspiratorial and junk-science views (recently there was a rumor about an upcoming seven-second loss of gravity.) I navigate it with shutting down any sense that I would ever humor it. I don’t maintain any sort of connection beyond general courtesy otherwise. Worst case was “we have to agree on reality to discuss it” and that was that.

We've got a handful of parties. I don't know how anyone votes, except one guy who is an elected official in the municipality. Think my best friend votes for the party that I've got the least in common with. The surrounding area is dominated by the party I don't vote for.

because of covid and right wing grifter it turned 1 family member into a partial maga, and i suspect many of other relatives have more conservative views than "progressive ones"

Well I'm on Lemmy.

I don't really talk politics. Not here and not in real life. I don't even know who most people around me vote for. Not even my parents. I don't live in a two party system so it's not a binary us vs. them like it's in the US.

I form my opinions on a individual basis and they're not always aligned with my "political leaning"

Wildly surrounded. I'm very used to interact with people with vastly different political opinions.

I have a straight up openly francoist coworker.

But I'm also surrounded by a lot of left leaning people. It's kind of diverse here right now.

Anyway, I think it's better for you to have to think the arguments rather than you repeating arguments you heard somewhere else. It would make you find your own believes, and have a firmer consolidation on why you believe in what you believe.

I live in Madison and everyone seems to have the same liberal political views, I almost never meet someone who opposes liberal/leftist ideals. All my friends are trans and some of my friends/coworkers even like Linux. we rarely encounter hostility, though I’d like to venture out more. It gets tiring when everyone agrees yet we can’t even solve the housing crisis.

15 years in Panama City, FL, which is about ⅔ red and ⅓ blue. It was fucking annoying. Fox News on every single fucking public television.

Hampton Roads, VA is so much better.

Nothing has made me more right wing than left wing propaganda and vica versa

Of course "left/right wing" is a ridiculously over simplified perspective in the first place but if nuance is a political stance, I suppose I'm heavily outnumbered

I grew up in the Midwestern US where it felt like a 50/50 split. I’ve lived in California for the past ~12 years and while I enjoy not being confronted with far-right ideas it is tiring hearing everyone kind of mindlessly nod along to liberal ones. I actually sometimes miss debating opposing viewpoints.

I grew up in a conservative hell, have lived in very liberal cities, am an anarcho-communist.

Im in the us and one side is so ludicrous I can't even pretend its legitimate. So I have discourse with various levels of left and center and im old enough to remember some semblence of conservative philosophy when it had some legitamacy but you don't encounter it anymore. I mean the blatant violation of our founding document is just not something to be debated on if its ok to do.

Indiana is blood red.

Generally surounded by socially liberal / left wing.

Exception is my dad who's sort of fashy at times, which I do hate him for

As an anarcho-communist majoring in a STEM field in : I am beset by liberal capitalists 💀💀💀💀💀

Most people I talk to in real life have similar political views to me. Except for a few kooky relatives

I've never had irl leftist friends in my life. Except for one couple who just assumed I was conservative and never really bothered to engage me about it.

Mostly "apolitical" normies and "common sense" (their words not mine) conservatives. I would have liked to have made more leftist friends but I can't really keep up the social performance that used to require. I have bad vibes and as a group we're more sensitive to that. But maybe as time goes on we will grow out of it.

I'm in a socially conservative country, in a smallish town populated by elderly retirees, families and dirt poor marginally educated people. In the days before people were scrolling conspiracy theories about George Soros and litter boxes for cat identifying kids in librul schools on Facebook and Twitter, I wouldn't been a more open person. Now, they'll only get to know my public deaf-mute alter ego and never know that I'm a vigilante lol.

I wish I was in a city where there's a bigger chance of meeting others like you.