The Atlantic: The Most Politically Intolerant Americans Are Older White Liberals

The Daily Caller ^ | 10:14 PM 03/04/2019 | Scott Morefield

[Wuli]

The pollsters did all they could to hide actual political affiliation, on purpose.

[Zathras]

I know a hard core lefty who lives in Seattle. Known him for decades.
Someday he is going to pop.

[RicocheT]

A lot of liberal-socialist older US people are the children or grandchildren of Stalinist communist parents/grandparents. Those communists were recent immigrants in the 1930’s or US people who bought the lie that communist Russia was the future for the world. Their kids were “red diaper” babies who were raised to believe the lies of communism. Most went underground during the McCarthy era and later cold war, but believed in communism in their hearts. Now, with the Democrats going for socialism, they are all out to make our USA communist.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“When I told my neighbor that I wanted the government to just leave me alone, she called me a Nazi.”

I told my in-laws that if Hitler had a (D) next to his name, they would have voted for him. And they are Jewish. They didn’t talk to me for almost 10 years.

[MeganC]

I’ve adopted a policy where if anyone calls me a Nazi I burn them alive in an oven.

Oddly, since adopting this policy no one has called me a Nazi.

[sparklite2]

While the piece did not explicitly label this group as “liberal,” several indications bear this out, such as the “highly educated” description (54 percent of college graduates at least lean Democratic...

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Whaddalottahooey. I fit most of the descriptions of their silly-assed assumption, while being old, white, and more intolerant than most. Just don’t think that makes me a damned liberal!

[thoughtomator]

I look forward to The Atlantic "Water is Wet" issue.

[SamAdams76]

Yes, and they are all sitting on my HOA board.

[Interesting Times]

Yep! Because that's what the Nazis were all about ... government leaving people alone.

...and lower taxes.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Robert A Cook PE.