rivrrat

My BF and I disagree on some things. He has much more of a militaristic "kill em all" attitude. Really our main disagreement is on the war, though he's slowly coming to my side. Muahahahaha He does have insight I don't have though, since he fought over there for a couple years. However, that also has led to some prejudice on his part that I do not like to see or hear from him.

I couldn't be with a really religious person, because I just wouldn't be able to fully respect them I don't think. Not on the level I'd need to. And I'm sure they'd get sick of me rolling my eyes all the time.

I'm really not sure I could be with someone who had socialist or totalitarian views, either. Not if they were extreme. I could deal with someone who was anti-choice, but we'd just have to agree to never talk about it. I would end up getting far too upset with their desire to not allow me to control my own body, so again.. the respect thing would come into play.

I guess in short, it really depends just how extreme they are and on what issues. I'm in the middle, so I can tolerate some "leftness" and some "rightness".

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americanwoman

I agree with that. Me and my husband agree on many things but also disagree and I love to argue politics with him. We're both independent moderates but he is slighty more conservative, but ask him and he's more liberal . It's fun but at the end of the day it doesn't interfere with our relationship. He's gets me real works up sometimes but it's all in good fun.


I don't think I could be with someone who was a neo-con or some kind of extreme liberal or just intolerant of other views. I would like someone to be open minded to all views.

bandaidwoman

My husband is a libertarian/republican, I am liberal. He is southern baptist and I am a Diest with Buddist philosophies. We have been happily married with children for over ten years. Great sex life, great conversations, we respect each others views.

Thelost1

Most people aren't as into politics as we are, so i assume that it would't matter for them.

However, there are polls that have consistantly shown that people don't want their kids to marry atheists, though, so who knows?

I would like to see Michael Moore and Ann Coulter get together, though.

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RightinNYC

I used to have occasional angry hate-sex with a girl whose parents worked in the Clinton White House and who was the president of a Young Democrat organization. That was sustainable for a couple hours at a time, but it wouldn't have worked in the long term.

On the other hand, I've dated girls who I had fundamental political differences with where it wasn't a problem at all. I think the hardest is when one person is very into politics and the other isn't at all.

And it can work for some people, just look at James Carville and Mary Matalin.

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Jerry

If 2 people are just siting at the table talking, then sure, they could make it work.

If she wants to abort his child against his will, there's a problem.
If he doesn't take monogamy seriously, but she does, there's a problem.
If one is a Conservative Jew and the other is a liberal Muslim........

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Korimyr the Rat

Exactly. It isn't political views that cause the problem... it's differences in moral views and in lifestyles that cause a problem.

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