Do you prefer social contacts (friends, partner) with a certain politicial view?

[noname223]

I have a good friend who has borderline. I like her a lot and she is really good at handling social contacts considering her condition. She said it about herself often she mirrors people.

She knows my autistic special interest is politics. And I vote for the SPD. I am a socialdemocrat. The thing is I am quite sure she mirrors me in this instance. This party is very unpopular among young people. I don't think she would support the party otherwise. I think she must assume I liked her more if she also voted for the SPD. The truth is: I prefer friends and partners who vote for Die Linke. All my closest friends vote for Die Linke. I am the only one who doesn't vote for Die Linke. It is also a party very popular among women and young people. In German one would say its a party for Gutmenschen (do-gooders). People who are very idealistic about politics. Personally, I have to say some politicies of Die Linke if they were implemented would totally backfire economically. In the longrun this would strengthen the far-right. And I don't support their takes on Russia and Ukraine.
But often I have the feeling such people are better people in personal contacts. I also experienced the complete opposite but this is a clear minority.

What about you?

 

[isthisit?]

I love disagreeing with my friends. I dont think I care what the beliefs of my friends are but certainly fun to disagree and argue on politics. Social democrats in estonia are pretty braindead in my opinion. They want to loosen the immigration policy even though we already have a 50K job deficit (so 4% of estonians are job-less right now).

 

[Asya]

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[LilGhost]

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Based, comrade

 

[ironrain]

Yes. But I don't mind having friends with different perspectives and political views. I'm not the one to tell people what's right and what's wrong because I'm my opinion the truth is very nuanced and isn't on either sides of political spectrum.

 

[SleeplessAndSad]

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I agree and i couldn't be friends with someone who has completely different values from me.

But i also don't like to talk about politics at all. People get too passionate about it in my opinion, which can easily overwhelm me.

 

[buriedinmyhead]

My only requirement is that they support human rights for everyone, it doesn't necessarily matter which party they are affiliated with, though I may be a little hesitant with republicans (as a lot of them are... difficult)

 

[tasmaka]

Honestly I like and favor the concept of people in my life having the same political beliefs and values I hold, but I dont take it personally if someone doesnt.

At a certain point theres obvious stuff like, human rights… that if they disagree yea no but thats totally given. The line for me on where its not like bad is the preference of certain structures over others and the idea of political vs moral debates, and honestly, theres no such thing as good/moral politics. , theres never anyone you can align with COMPLETELY, everyones different and political subjects just show that clearly.

(On morals vs politics , yes someone with same morals, political, variation exists, morals and values show in stances.)

 

[BradGuy123]

If you asked me this a year or two ago, my answer would have been different. I used to be heavily into politics. I watched the news. I was an activist. The whole nine yards. A couple of years ago I stepped away. I turned off the news. It was upsetting me and stressing me out. My mental health is a lot better now. My partner and I see eye to eye politically. Friends were never as issue. We simply wouldn't talk about it. I judge friends by how nice they are to me. A year or two ago I would have said I could never date anyone with opposite political views from me. Now if I were single I'm not so sure. If he were hard-core MAGA I might have an issue. Maybe it has something to do with my political views moderating somewhat (I still can't stand Trump) and maybe it has something to do with the fact that I really don't pay attention to politics anymore. It's a moot question for me since I've never really considered it an issue for friends if they don't push it on me (I had to end a friendship because he was a big Trumper who wouldn't stop talking about it) and also because I'm not single.