62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share

Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by woofie11 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:18PM (#23933881)

This is exactly it. Every conservative I speak with thinks I'm Joseph Stalin, and every liberal thinks I'm Adolf Hitler. I've stopped talking to people about these things.

What's amazing about it is you can voice disagreement in just one place, and you're either a liberal snowflake or a Trump-supporting racist. It doesn't seem to matter which place you disagree, or whether your disagreement falls on the other side of the political spectrum.

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Re:62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Af... by natechols on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:38PM (#23934019)

What terrifies me even more is when the same tribalism leads people on either side to start reflexively defending their entire "side" - thus the right-wing fondness for Pinochet or Franco, or the left-wing fondness for Castro or Maduro (just to cherry-pick some examples). Sooner or later you just end up delegitimizing liberal democracy altogether (which I'm sure is the entire point, for some).

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