Posted on 05/13/2025 8:12:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I NEED A SURVEY TO TELL ME THIS? Poll: college-educated women end friendships over politics.
If you wanted to drill down to the biggest dividing factor here, it’s the portion of the coalition made up of college-educated women – a cohort that now dominates the politics of the Democratic coalition. In their circles, they say differences of political opinion have led to broken friendships with friends and neighbors at a more than 40-point rate – 67 percent to 24 percent.
One factor here could be an underlying belief that your friends and neighbors are just flat-out racists over their political opinions. Of Kamala Harris voters, Cygnal’s poll found that 62 percent say race relations have gotten worse in the past five years (since the summer of George Floyd), while 55 percent of Trump voters say race relations have improved or stayed the same. And again, the same cohort shows up to double-down on that belief: fully 75 percent of white female Democrats with a college-degree say race relations have gotten worse since 2020 – compared to just 41 percent of black men.
It’s the allyship that matters most, you see – not friendship.
Just as a reminder of how ephemeral most tribal political battles are, the late Charles Krauthammer wrote:
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
That was back in 2002, when the then-Hitlers on the left were George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Both of whom the Harris campaign eagerly sought endorsements from last year.
If someone will end a friendship with you over politics, that person was never your friend to begin with.
Wow.
We're all sinful/evil.
Many Liberals are very smart, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
I think liberals are stupid AND evil.
Friendships, hell they end marriages!..............
I did that in the 80s and 90s, and once joining Facebook. It is not a new thing. I suspected that my friends were Democrats, but it didn’t matter until I was older. I could no longer speak with, or to, them.
I was college aged and attending (late 70s-early 80s) but I was the Conservative one.
Not true.
IMHO, BOTH!
HST, WHY?
I have Democrat friends. They don’t realize it, but they are actually Republicans because we agree on quite a bit of things.
College-educated liberal women may; college-educated conservative women don’t. We are smart enough to change the subject.
Exactly.
The Democratic Party has become a cult that shun apostates.
Agreed.
That’s because they’re of satan.
Not to mention disowning family!
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