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LordoftheMorons posted...

Paratroopa1 posted...

That's just it though, they do seem like unicorns to me. Of my 6 friends groups that I have (forgot one in the intervening time since the last post) I can account for damn well near everyone's general outlook and none of them are republicans. The only people I know who are republicans are people in my family who are at least 50 years old - and even THEN it's not many. Most of my mom's family is liberal and my stepdad's family (who I am quite close to) are liberal across the board. All of my friends groups frequently engage in politics talk which makes it clear we're all not republicans. I don't know things are other places but the pervading culture in Seattle and its surrounding areas is very reserved so strangers don't generally talk about politics with each other, which can make this a hard and usually very undesirable subject to breach with people you don't know very well (which may or may not be for the better, depending on whether you think 'civility' or 'understanding' is more important, and I don't know the answer to that), so it's probable that I've been acquaintances with republicans (I mean, I worked elections in 2016 and they explicitly hire as close to a 50/50 democrat/republican split as they can), but I've never been friends with one. Again, aside from like, ed, who barely counts. That's kind of the problem with being friends with republicans in 2018 - anyone who would consider themselves such that I would find enjoyable to relate to would have dropped the label like a hot piece of shit after 2016, so it's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy in some ways.

The highly educated young republicans I know are almost all either libertarians and/or quite religious

I DO know some people with libertarian leanings but they're left-leaning libertarians and always very socially progressive.

I don't actually know many people who I know to be religious and actively practicing, although much like politics, religion is not generally considered a polite topic of conversation with anyone you don't know very very well here, and I don't have a religious ingroup seeing as I'm not religious.