Young Dems more likely to despise the other party

I mean, one party wants to impose their control on others. If someone is pushing their religion, they're trying to control my body if I were raped, to continue to insist that 'their guy' won even though it's abundantly clear that Biden won, refuse to mask/vaccinate, to threaten school board members/teachers/local elected officials, to post family Christmas cards in front of the tree while holding rifles while a community mourns a school shooting, to post unending berating posts on social media about a woman (who enjoys cooking) buying a cooking tool with her own money while ignoring the cost to the nation of endless golf trips that lined the pockets of Trump, to believe that the criminals who stormed the Capitol were just tourists who happened to chant about hanging Pence whilst they shat upon the floors and pissed on the walls...

Well, I can understand their inclination. But do go on about how the GOP is the party of whatever you believe it to be.

I think certain things should not be tolerated.

Here's the thing, qanon-ers et al.....


The RIGHT wants to TAKE AWAY THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS to please their unprovable god.

The LEFT wants to ENSURE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS to please their fellow humans.




The RIGHT says "YOU can't have same sex marriage!"

The LEFT says "You do you. You don't want a same sex marriage, no problem. But, in commerce and places of PUBLIC accommodations, you WILL treat everyone equally.




The RIGHT says "YOU can't have an abortion"

The LEFT says "You do you. You don't ever want an abortion, no problem. But you will NOT FORCE OTHERS to give up the right to their organs and their use."



The RIGHT says "YOU must say this prayer to my unprovable god before school"

The LEFT says "You do you. You want to pray in school, have at it. Meet your friends. Pray yourself sill. But you will NOT FORCE OTHERS to pray your prayers".



The RIGHT is about FORCING YOU to live by THEIR BELIEFS.
The LEFT is about each person finding the way that works for them w/o stepping on the rights of others.

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I'm doubtful in a poll of 850 college students you can find enough republicans to be statistically significant. I'd love to see the actual numbers, but there's no link to the data of the study.

Uhm, considering the Republicans are aligning themselves with Trump, a terrible human being, I am a 49 year who feels the same way as the college students. Trump is going to bring this country down, and you're a damn fool if you support him.

"opposing Presidential candidate" would mean Trump and that makes me proud of that 71%.

No don’t put your gaslighting on the article.

You chose to post it with that comment.

I agree. The young people that I know seem to be better people than my friends and I were in our 20s. Maybe I just know a lot of exceptional youngs, but I don’t think so.

pps - for those interested in the philosophy read up on the Tolerance Paradox....

"Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance. "

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

"I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."

So, when the young are intolerant of intolerance it is because they are working for a tolerant society.

There are plenty of other polls showing Republicans are intolerant of Democrats.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/10/most-republicans-see-democrats-not-political-opponents-enemies/

Most Republicans see Democrats not as political opponents but as enemies

The gap between the two parties on this question is stark. There’s a 32-point difference on net between how Democrats view Republicans and vice versa, on a question positing that members of a political party might be viewed with overt hostility. It’s grim — and it is consistent with increasingly hostile partisan views over time.

As in the CBS poll, Democrats’ views of Republicans tend to be a bit more positive. When presented with an opportunity to opine on the characteristics of those in the opposing party, Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say their opponents were closed-minded — but Republicans were significantly more likely to say Democrats were unpatriotic, immoral or lazy.

www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/10/10/how-partisans-view-each-other/

Today's Republican Party led by Trump is actively engaged in destroying our democracy, voter suppression, led an insurrection, falsely claimed election fraud (but only at the top of the ticket), embraces white supremacy, restricts women's reproductive rights and choices over their own body. Therefore, it's not surprising that people who strongly oppose all of those views would not want to date, work for, support businesses etc. with anyone who is on the Republican side.

We're no longer talking about a party of small government and fiscal conservatives.

And just because you don't want to date someone who believes in denying rights to other people, or work for them, or even be friends with them, doesn't mean you "despise" the person. I know quite a few people that I don't want to be friends with for various reasons, and I don't even know their political beliefs. I just don't want to be friends with them. Doesn't mean I despise them.