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amoghs | 3 years ago

Curious, do you actively hide your agnostic liberal views?

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rlawson|3 years ago

I don't lie if directly asked but I don't volunteer unless I know the person. Have definitely been told I'm going to hell, etc

oceanplexian|3 years ago

I mean, you change them. A big part of politics is contextual to where you live, and rural people have different problems than people in cities and suburbs.

You might still be a liberal but the type of liberal that lives in, say rural New England is vastly different than a California liberal. They are going to be much more practical. Demonizing cars like you might in a big city makes no sense in a place that will never get public transportation. Social services, especially things like public housing aren’t high on list of needs or wants. Public (K-12) education is a majority of tax dollars, for cultural reasons and a stigma against people who are uneducated. And so on. Different parts of the USA will have totally different value systems.

UncleMeat|3 years ago

My parents are retired in SC. Other than "no guns at our house" they hide their liberal views and end up finding left wing friends through weird whisper networks. The huge majority of their friends and neighbors are red (they live in a very white and quite wealthy area).