Has your opinion of a person ever changed because of their political persuasion?

Answer 1

Its more their level of insight about those views. Ignorance offends more than the views per se.

I have no tolerance for bumper-sticker conservatives or liberals. You know the kind - they really only parrot slogans, they have no clue WHY they believe what they believe and they refuse to have the ignorant opinions swayed by reality.

There is no poverty like ignorance.

Answer 2

Yes. A person on a team I was playing on joined in a conversation about the world situation and I was appalled at his ideas of why things are the way they are. I know of him being a successful business person, but clueless on international and even local current events.

Answer 3

No. But there've been several people who I assumed were Democrats because of how nice and intelligent they were, who turned out to be Conservatives, and vice versa. It didn't change my opinion of the person- good and intelligent or not, but It definetly made me realize you can't assume things.

Answer 4

Yes, my opinion of my son changed when he started coming home from school parroting the liberal babble his teachers were filling his head with. I was getting worried about him.

I taught my 15 yr old kid a good lesson the other weekend. He’d been spouting a bunch of socialistic crap his teachers at school are pouring down his throat. Up until my wife died 2 years ago, we were home schooling him and his 13 yr old brother – but for the past 2 years I’ve had to put them in public education.

Thus the older boy was spouting the typical liberal garbage his government lackey teachers have been spouting. You know the drill – the capitalistic system isn’t fair to everyone, people need a minimum amount of support from the government, from each according to his ability , to each according to his need. Blah , blah blah.

Anyway I told my son if he worked with me on Saturday, pouring a 10 yard concrete driveway, I’d pay him $100. I told his younger brother he could go play with his friends and go to the movies.

Anyway I had my older kid busting his *ss, raking that concrete, screeding, tamping, floating and trowelling. Must have been 95 degrees. By the time it was broomed off, he looked like a whipped puppy.

So I get him home and give him 10 $10 bills. Then I tell him – you have to give $60 to your brother (the one who played and went to the movies).

He started complaining – I turned his **** right back on him – his brother needed the money – it wasn’t fair that his brother had less than him – blah blah blah.

I told him when you consider marginal income tax rates, sales tax, property taxes etc etc – keeping $40 out of every $100 you earn was about what he could expect. And I held to my guns – he got $40 and the lazy kid got $60.



Somehow I think the kid’s gonna wind up a conservative Republican.

Answer 5

It has made me wonder, if I ever truly understood/knew this person at all. Their actions do not reflect the words that comes out their mouth.

Answer 6

No, because if you consider people solely on who they vote for then people are either good or bad. There's no in between at all and that's very bad stereotyping.

Answer 7

Yup, sure has.

When I find someone lapping up the nonsense spewed out by one party or the other my estimation of their intellectual capabilities slips a bit.

Answer 8

Only by their actions under that PERSUASION.

Answer 9

I was very impressed with Barak Obama because of some things he said, and I'm usually conservative. I have had women who refuse to date any conservative.

Answer 10

Generally if I personally know them no.

However, as there is a bunch of Left wingers in my family, I usually avoid any political issues at family gatherings. Since they have a very hard time of dealing with things logically when I debate them.