[weegee]

Understanding the passion, however, doesn't necessarily mean sharing the same opinions. Ms. McDermott points to Mary Matalin and James Carville as an example of political partisans who are confident enough of their views that they "don't need to have them affirmed in the relationship."

They are both public figures. They don't need to have their views validated by each other, they have plenty of admirers in the tv audience.

[KC_Conspirator]

Within weeks she knew he was the one. Shared political beliefs "are one more set of criteria that lets you know you're soul mates," she says.

I read another thread like this. Basically leftists want to enforce leftist ideologies on others and demand that leftist othodoxy be enforced in a relationship. Its selfish to demand ideological purity in a relationship, but is'nt this typical of liberals? You see the same thing in colleges where professors demand their students parrot their liberal ideas back to them for good grades and failure to do so results in punishment.