This has always been the case, there have always been purity tests. When was the last time a Democratic presidential candidate ran on an anti-abortion campaign

This has always been the case, there have always been purity tests. When was the last time a Democratic presidential candidate ran on an anti-abortion campaign or a Republican ran on a tax hike campaign? What’s fairly recent is that millions of us now have the potential to reach millions of people with our social media posts. My Tweets get more views than when I wrote for my college newspaper 10 years ago! So of course if I wind up writing or saying something that a majority of people disagree it will cause me problems. My options are to either not write and say controversial things (or at least not under my name) or to just deal with being in a contrarian position. The great thing about expressing opinions is it’s optional. People who are women or gender non-conforming, racial minorities, homosexual or disabled have no way of changing their position in life so we protect them. Controversial opinions and beliefs? Those are easy to mask or change.