> But if I'm a random nice guy driving through, dunno, Trumpland, in an electric car, I stop off somewhere and causally drop in that I'm voting Democratic, not

> But if I'm a random nice guy driving through, dunno, Trumpland, in an electric car, I stop off somewhere and causally drop in that I'm voting Democratic, not keen on guns, but hey we're all Americans and that's great... will this already peeve people off? I live in an extremely red area - if you did that here, you’d probably not get very good service from the business where you are, but you wouldn’t be in _danger_. > I'd like to imagine radical postures, present in every country, are rare enough that they won't spark a wholesale civil war/unrest. Ah, but that’s the root of the problem we’re facing, at least as far as I can tell. Each side sees the other as “radical extremists”. The few centrists are pretty much ignored.