You Can’t Be Friends with Conservatives?
30th July 2021
One of the most obvious misconceptions about liberals today is that they personify tolerance. The Oxford Dictionary defines tolerance as “the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.”
A recent poll by the Survey Center on American Life at the American Enterprise Institute found that Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to report ending a friendship over a political disagreement (20 percent vs. 10 percent). Liberals are also far more likely than conservatives to say they are no longer friends with someone over political differences (28 percent to 10 percent). No group is more likely to end a friendship over political differences than liberal women – 33 percent responded they stopped a friendship over politics.