I can see where that would happen. I am a member of a co-op gallery. I am a Southerner and not a big fan of the Republican party (though I am very conservative). I haven’t engaged in much discussion, nor do most of the gallery members. They generally make the assumption that you agree with progressive/liberal ideas...and most of them do! I am always polite and civil. There is perhaps one other (out of a couple dozen) who is an actual Republican. Perhaps as a Libertarian, I am viewed as harmless or silly. I don’t know! I don’t worry about it a lot.
My husband is retired military. No one has been mean to me about that and they all know. It was on my application and they voted me in.
It is wise to not engage in discussions if at all possible in that environment. I was drawn in with one person who is very much an activist, but she not inflammatory or mean and we do agree on a few things.
I get in more trouble talking about football (Roll Tide!) than politics.
“My husband is retired military. No one has been mean to me about that and they all know. It was on my application and they voted me in.”
You may be lucky. I posted years ago about a couple who grew tired of the liberalizing of California, and they knew we had vacationed a lot with ason living in Oregone, at one time we had two sons there, (none now).
The friend was a retired combat marine and put in 25 years of law enforcement here after his corp service and retired. She was a medical office manager, and both were devout Christians.
For some reason they were keyed in on Ashland and Eugene. We tried to warn them about the liberalism in those two left wing hell holes.
Being a Jarhead, he had to find out himself. He came close to getting into a fight with his Ashland lesbo realtor and left that area after about 4 hours instead of a couple of days and went to Eugene. The Eugene area lasted less than a dinner hour. They were in their Suburban with Bush/Cheney stickers at a fast food franchise.
Some idiots tried to harass them as they got out of their Surburban. Only idiots would try to harass a combat Marine and a wife who was a jock her entire life.
I get a cell call from them after they got their takeout meals and left wonderful Eugene. I told them to spend the night at Grants Pass.
Then, I called a flyfishing friend, who had a relative in real estate in the Medford area. He gave the realtor my phone number, I got a call from her. I explained the situation to her, and she laughed. She said, she had a new community east of Medford that should work. I got her number and called our friends.
They called the Medford realtor and met her the next morning. They found a couple of communities, they liked and really like the new one. They bought a home that wasn’t finished yet, so when it was, they had the exterior/interior the way they wanted it.
They loved the area and got used to snow just east of them.
Their church opened a new one church in the area.
They were concerned after the 2008 election, but their county and area actually had less votes for Obozo this election.