Have you ever talk to someone who is Completely Opposite from your Political Perspective... How did it go ???

Answer 1

SINCE WE ARE ADULTS , WE RESPECTED EACH OTHER AND LISTENED AND COMMENTED WITHOUT THROWING THINGS AT EACH OTHER.
MY BRO AND I ARE SO POLITICALLY DIFFERENT IT'S HARD
TO BELIEVE WE WERE RAISED IN THE SAME HOUSE BUT WE MANAGE TO HAVE INTELLIGENT CONVERSATION ABOUT POLITICS.

Answer 2

Yes, and most of the time it ends in an argument which is no longer a debate. Some people aren't able to hold personal feelings out of political debate. Political debates are supposed to be beneficial for understanding both sides of a situation and finding middle ground. Some aren’t debating to find a middle ground but to just yell at the other person because they don’t believe what they want them to believe. Then it gets personal and someone gets offended. This is completely wrong and people should not expose their political perspectives if they are not willing to accept the other person’s opinion and to compromise. Stop trying to force people to believe what you believe. It is wrong. If an individual believes in something very strongly, then live by it, but stop trying to impose it on someone else.

Answer 3

I have a good friend that I hiked with nearly every weekend for years...we disagreed on tons of political issues, but i don't take them too seriously so sometimes I disagreed, while sometimes I didn't say anything and just let him ramble until he was done. I sometimes tried to calmly discuss the opposing point of view, then he would get all worked up, but I just stayed calm...which helped him in teh end. It opens your mind to calmly discuss opposing points of view.

Typically when I have seen these discussions go bad for others, it is because of being close-minded and not listening to anothers viewpoint. I also see a lot of stubborn-ness and blind loyalty for political parties, whatever the topic.

Answer 4

I have tried. I am conservative and I have friends that are liberal. Whenever politics are discussed, everything suddenly turns in to a shouting match. My liberal friends think everything in the world that has gone wrong for the past 100 years is somehow George W. Bush's fault and they scream alot. I have even given them material to read and they throw it away and say it's all made up. They won't listen to facts and they are very emotional aboutm things. Since George W. Bush's second term, I don't do as much with them as before because they physically hate conservatives or "neocons" as they like to say now. I also am a Christian and they think religion and God is a load of crap too. I am beginning to think Ann Coulter's book "Godless, The Church of Liberalism" is right because tbey all fit the mold.

Answer 5

It was like trying to carry on a conversation with a TV broadcast of Bush. It's impossible to communicate with someone who's too ignorant to listen and thinks he's right just because other ignorant lunatics have written books full of the same propaganda. The guy couldn't come up with an original thought to save his life, so he just swallows the whole neoconservative approach hook, line and sinker.

Propaganda is one of the world's biggest threats to democracy. If you don't know what I mean, read George Orwell's "1984".

Answer 6

In my family we have both Republicans and Democrats. It is pretty interesting at the least. We try to steer clear of politics but when the conversation turns in that direction it can get heated. Everyone has their good points and bad, we lay them out for open discussion. My husband's mother is registered with one party and we are registered with the other, talk about a debate. Wow, she is very opinionated.

Answer 7

Me being a a techniques-rightwinger (non-republican) i somewhat haven't any decision. I frequently make some experience of the political spectrum in my time with them as i will instruct them that the political themes that they convey up are merely distractions and that socialism does no longer mean that adult males can marry adult males and everybody can get abortions perpetually; the major concern at the same time as it is composed of politics is the economic equipment which appears to be like missed and that i do not trust that any one is programmed to attempt to make experience of it.

Answer 8

I have several friends who are confused liberals, but great about everything else. So I make sure that politics has no part of our friendship.

One thing I’ve learned thanks to the internet: no matter what you think is right and wrong, there are those out there who honestly believe the exact opposite.

So you just can’t get too stuck on politics.

Answer 9

Yes, it goes very well, if both sides agree to listen. It helps to have a conch shell to pass as was done in the movie, "Lord Of The Flies" LOL! Actually, we used a 2 lt Coke bottle! Can you imagine our world leaders using this strategy? Hey, it's worth a shot.

Answer 10

Sure, I do it all the time. I'm a Fundamentalist Conservative and I've had conversations with liberal pagans, moderate Muslims, social liberals, atheist liberals, liberal Christians, and almost everyone else.

It usually goes pretty well. The cardinal rule is that no matter how much you disagree, you must LISTEN! If you listen to them, they will usually listen to you. Ideas will get exchanged and everyone will learn something whether they agree with it or not.

Answer 11

Yes. Every time I talk to my Grandma.... She's a democrat, and while I'm not very political, I tend to have republican viewpoints. She gets all pissy every time I contradict something she's complaining about. Especially when I'm explaining the truth to her. She's got some very warped views of society...