I grew up in a time when political identity was like number 12 on the list out of 20 things you would judge a person by.
I am moderately conservative but I liked literature/arts. I believe global warming real. I attended an extremely liberal college campus. However at that time even people there wouldn’t automatically disassociate & hate you over political differences.
Then in 2014 I had two major incidents occur that forever changed my outlook on politics. Trump wasn’t even running for office yet but the radicalism was already happening.
The first was my then girlfriend (who was moderate liberal when I met her) made a bunch of new friends with far leftists types. They definitely influenced her. The way she treated me during the break up was nothing like I have ever experienced from any other woman in my life. She literally looked at me like I was less then human. I wasn’t perfect but I know I did nothing fundamentally wrong (e. g. cheating/abuse)
For a long time I didn’t believe it was over our political differences. However until I saw how large swathes of “modern” women hating any man who voted republican in 2016 and on.
The second major incident (in 2014) is that I experienced real life cancel culture at my former job. I never brought up politics at work. But I was asked to manage an advertising campaign for an abortion clinic which I politely declined (it was only 1 out 200 tasks I had). After that everybody’s opinion of me changed. One guy was trying to find minor mistakes I was making to get me fired. I didn’t realize it was politically motivated at the time. I didn’t think people would do that. But they did.
Ever since then I’ve had a very deep grudge for leftists. I follow politics very closely (I’m a Ben Shapiro fan). I want to stay informed but at the same time I am so sick of the division. I want to stop giving attention to it but I feel like I can’t.
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It’s difficult, but possible. Ironically, I think the more informed you become about how things really work, the less involved you become because you realize that you’re just getting really worked up by stuff you have no say in. As far as how you go about it? Pretty simple. Stop watching news. Stop reading papers. Stop visiting online news sites. Stop listening to news on the radio.
I myself am several months clean now! Yay me.
I was underestimated the hatred, derision and discrimination that exists out there. I had a relationship destroyed over it (her shitty decision but still) and I had my very livilihood threatened.
I didn’t realize what was going on at that time but I do now. I like to stay informed about the facts though.
Perfect. Lol
Oh yeah. People do all sorts of insane shit. They won’t date people who aren’t members of the same party. They’ll make up all sorts of outrageous claims about people who disagree with them. It’s the product of a nonstop and all encompassing bombardment of fear & hate themed propaganda.
Believe it or not there was time things weren’t like that. I’m old enough to remember.
No. The culture wars are the only way anyone ever votes republican, because of the disastrous history of republican policies. And Republicans have nothing else to do with all the media they own besides push the culture war. So, there is no way to avoid it without pretty much avoiding all media and people. Or, the slow work of defunding the rich so they can't afford to flood the media with culture wars anymore, but no one is interested in long term successes..
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