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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I stay away from women that are overly political. Honestly strains any friendship with men either. It's not the opinions that bother me, I'm opinionated. I can tolerate differences of opinion in a relationship. It's how far you take it and how much you value it.

Some people are essentially zealots, political drones that are beholden to the whims of their side of the partisan nonsense. It is a religion at that point. These people will always value the cause over their relationships because to them the cause is their god.

You run into similar problems dating cultists or anyone who is a religious extremist. The cult is more important than us. So never date them in the first place.

They always go I to personal morality judgements based on things that don't matter. Someone's politics being different than your own doesn't indicate whether or not they are a good match for you on its own, but when you are part of a cult that has prescriptive beliefs and judges you as good or evil based on your opinions on taxation then even if you are on the same page politically the relationship is dangerous. The whims of political cults will shift and you must know that when you date a zealot you are number 2 in their life after the cult. And they'll treat you like a piece of number 2 if you ever fall out of formation.