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Again, that doesn't mirror my experience around any of those areas at all. I lived in LA and the bay area for almost a decade. Plenty of people wanted different

Again, that doesn't mirror my experience around any of those areas at all. I lived in LA and the bay area for almost a decade. Plenty of people wanted different tax structures, reduced regulatory burden on businesses (especially small businesses), reevaluation of existing expenditures over increased taxation, etc. Are there specific Republican views that you think are anathema?

e4e78a06 5y ago
Not OP, but any of the following will immediately get you labeled as a Republican (said with disgust), racist, Trump supporter, or bootlicker: - support for deporting illegal immigrants - opposition against affirmative action / DEI programs with forced quotas - opposition against defunding police - support for stronger punishments for property crime - disdain for homeless encampments - disdain for the combination of higher taxes + increasing welfare programs - support for building more housing that doesn't require a years-long environmental review and low-income units (although this is changing) - opposition against redistributing local K-12 school funds state-wide - any suggestion that the higher poverty and crime rates seen in [insert race/ethnicity/sex/gender/religion/etc] could possibly even 1% be caused by culture and not 100% caused by systemic discrimination Any of these will immediately get you labeled as an alt-right nutjob even though I personally think many are quite reasonable positions to have.
- happytoexplain 5y ago
  Most of these are severely exaggerated, in practice (in the context of your starting assertion). You can find individual cases to support any assertion against either party.
dvt 5y ago
> Are there specific Republican views that you think are anathema? Try wearing a MAGA hat in Santa Monica. The arguments here that it's just as cool to be a Democrat as it is to be a Republican is so divorced from reality, I feel like I'm being gaslit. Even on dating apps folks use "moderate" as a euphemism for "conservative" -- I've literally had this conversation on dates before.
- WaxProlix 5y ago
  It sounds like you've been speaking in bad faith then, since this is a large reversal from what you'd said earlier.
- happytoexplain 5y ago
  >it's just as cool to be a Democrat as it is to be a Republican Nobody is saying that. This is true of perhaps no location in the country. Also, wearing a MAGA hat is a behavioral subset of "being a Republican". Half the Republicans I know think MAGA hats are "gross". I think you're letting feelings of political hostility push you into rambly territory a bit. You keep loosening your phrasing to be more high level "Democrats vs Republicans".

e4e78a06 5y ago

Not OP, but any of the following will immediately get you labeled as a Republican (said with disgust), racist, Trump supporter, or bootlicker: - support for deporting illegal immigrants - opposition against affirmative action / DEI programs with forced quotas - opposition against defunding police - support for stronger punishments for property crime - disdain for homeless encampments - disdain for the combination of higher taxes + increasing welfare programs - support for building more housing that doesn't require a years-long environmental review and low-income units (although this is changing) - opposition against redistributing local K-12 school funds state-wide - any suggestion that the higher poverty and crime rates seen in [insert race/ethnicity/sex/gender/religion/etc] could possibly even 1% be caused by culture and not 100% caused by systemic discrimination Any of these will immediately get you labeled as an alt-right nutjob even though I personally think many are quite reasonable positions to have.

happytoexplain 5y ago
Most of these are severely exaggerated, in practice (in the context of your starting assertion). You can find individual cases to support any assertion against either party.

dvt 5y ago

> Are there specific Republican views that you think are anathema? Try wearing a MAGA hat in Santa Monica. The arguments here that it's just as cool to be a Democrat as it is to be a Republican is so divorced from reality, I feel like I'm being gaslit. Even on dating apps folks use "moderate" as a euphemism for "conservative" -- I've literally had this conversation on dates before.

WaxProlix 5y ago
It sounds like you've been speaking in bad faith then, since this is a large reversal from what you'd said earlier.
happytoexplain 5y ago
>it's just as cool to be a Democrat as it is to be a Republican Nobody is saying that. This is true of perhaps no location in the country. Also, wearing a MAGA hat is a behavioral subset of "being a Republican". Half the Republicans I know think MAGA hats are "gross". I think you're letting feelings of political hostility push you into rambly territory a bit. You keep loosening your phrasing to be more high level "Democrats vs Republicans".