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How do your political views line up with the people you see the most? (1 Viewer)

I will go first. 

At my job it is a pretty good mix, although I work from home. The few people I interact with the most are pretty liberal, but the most vocal people are conservative. 

My family - all conservative, my parents, my in-laws, my brother, my cousins, and my aunts and uncles. There might be a random liberal I am missing, but it is well over 90 percent. 

My friends - probably 70 percent conservative. 

My husband and I are pretty liberal. 

 
Co-workers -- :lmao:  not even in the general universe.  I would estimate that I "know" 300 or so people at my place of employment, obviously some much better than others.  I don't know a single person who is openly right of center.  Now obviously there are some closeted conservatives in that population, and I feel like I could guess who a few of them are, but I've never met anybody at work who admitted to voting for McCain or Romney, for example.

Family -- My family is all over the place.  Some of them are woke progressives, and some of them are hard-core Trumpers.  

Friends -- All of them are lefties as far as I know, but we hardly ever talk politics.  Small sample size -- I'm highly introverted and have a very narrow social circle, so I should just leave this one blank really.

 
I'm the black sheep liberal atheist in my large conservative Christian family and my wife's conservative family.  

Most of my friends and coworkers are left of center like me. 

I'm pretty conservative relative to my ex wife's liberal family though. 

I had a lengthy political talk with my Bush Republican, devout Christian father the other week and there weren't a lot of topics we disagreed on once we broke things down to what's reasonable or not. I'd guess most of us are pretty close on issues if we stop talking past each other.

 
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Work - Judging by the emails I receive on a regular basis the people running the show are raging wokeaholics, but my immediate co-workers are a mix and no one leans too far one way or the other.

Family - My whole family is pretty much conservative.

Friends - Most of my friends are conservative, but I have some liberal friends.

I think for the most part the people I interact with seem to agree on things more than they disagree and on the things we disagree can find some sort of common ground.

 
Coworkers....I am so far right wing that it's scary.

Family... almost all have been lost to the Covid is a scam by the devil children of Bill Gates and Donald Trump is on a mission from God...I have one cousin left who can form coherent sentences.

Friends...they run the gamit. Some left, some right, some middle.

 
Work is overall about 75/25 conservative. Leadership tends to lean more liberal. 

I'm the odd man out on both sides of my family. Im the most conservative on my mom's side and considered the most liberal on my dad's. Wife's family is an even mix. 

My friends are about 90% conservatives. 

 
I’m in TX, Austin suburbs.  Once you get out of downtown it turns red in a hurry.  Most of my friends are conservative, but not MAGA level.  I’d say 65-35 leaning right.  Family in the northeast is similar.
 

 
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joffer said:
I’m in TX, Austin suburbs.  Once you get out of downtown it turns red in a hurry.  Most of my friends are conservative, but not MAGA level.  I’d say 65-35 leaning right.  Family in the northeast is similar.
 
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I didn't think of the about location and the role it plays. I am in Michigan, in a fairly conservative area. 

 
I'm a liberal island in a sea of conservatives.

work: 70/30 split

family: just me and one quasi-liberal cousin

friends: 50/50

location: TN

 
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I'm a reformed Republican, who left the partay once the nativists took over.  Socially, live and let live, etc.  Not religious.  Never cared for the welfare state.

Slightly to the right of coworkers:  Live in the DC burbs, work in engineering, coworkers are well educated and have been around some.  As you would expect, mostly moderate liberals.  I fit in ok.  I don't agree with the woke, but then again I'm viewed as one of the older guys so I'm allowed to be grumpy.  Politics isn't a hot topic at work.

Slightly to the right of the neighbors:  Politics not a hot topic because folks are just living their life.  The ageing and dwindling local R's are the old school type.

In line with the Family:  Family is moderate with a left lean.  Our black sheep is my born-again brother, who is fully propagandized and hopelessly lost.  He's a specialist doctor who acts like someone stole from him.  Miserable SOB with a Trumpy pig of a 2nd wife.

 
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Friends 90/10 R/D with I would say at least 50% hardcore MAGA fans. Family 50/50 but one BIL and my FIL extreme liberals. Work I would say about 60/40 R/D. Consider myself independent so don’t really debate politics with any except give my FIL hard time about Joe

 
Work is hard as I lead many different teams so I do my best not to ever talk politics with anyone.  The only person I do talk politics with is the owner of the company and he’s very libertarian.  

Wife is from the mid west and is the classic mid west conservative as is most her family.  Her dad is a Trump guy. 

My 2 best friends- we’ve all been best friends for coming up on 30 yrs. Their brothers really, far more family then friends.   1 is very liberal, 1 is very conservative (was a Trump guy in the beginning then wised up 😉) and I’m a centrist independent.  We rarely talk politics as at this point we all know where the other stands on most things. But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter what we disagree on, we’re brothers. 
 

 
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My dad is pretty hard core republican.  I was too, until maybe the late 00's.  My brother is an evangelical never-Trumper, which is interesting.

Here in South Carolina, I know the vast majority of people I interact with are pretty hard core conservative so I kind of have to code-switch when I'm in public.  Friends - probably 50/50.

As far as co-workers - we keep politics out of it as much as possible.  I know my boss is conservative and at least a few co-workers are pretty liberal.  It seems to break by age - anyone older than me (47) is conservative, anyone younger is liberal. 

 
I generally keep it out of the work place, but there are two co-workers with whom I discuss stuff with on occasion, and not surprisingly, they both think the opposite of me.  A fellow manager leans pretty far right, but doesn't like Trump, and always jokes that I am a liberal because I rarely agree with his takes, and the lady in accounting who leans pretty far left thinks I am a conservative because I rarely agree with her takes.  I am destined to be stuck in the middle (with you). :lol:  

Family and friends are all over the place, but no one is so extreme either way that I actively try to avoid them. 

 
Office rarely discusses politics, aside from shaking their heads at MAGA and anti-vax types. I’d guess 90% liberal.

Friends are fairly apolitical, but those who’ve voiced their opinions also are majority liberal. My wealthiest friend is conservative though.

Father-in-law watches Fox News, listens to talk radio, and may be the only person in my social circle who voted for Trump. Probably some conservative family in NC, too. My sister in NH hates government, but far left socially.

Despite nearly everyone leaning left, nobody is openly woke. But more importantly, very few people in my surrounding seem to get worked up about political issues, period. 

 
Co-Workers?  I really have no idea as we rarely if ever discuss politics. (I never bring up politics).  I’d guess it’s a mix, but that is just speculation. 

Family?  Mostly conservative for the family I regularly interact with, with a few outliers here and there. 

Friends?  They run the spectrum from very liberal to very conservative.  If I were to average them out, I’d land right of center. 

EDIT:  That being said, very few of my many conservative friends and family are fans of Donald Trump. My dad and stepmother are the only two who come to mind. 

 
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Captain Cranks said:
I had a lengthy political talk with my Bush Republican, devout Christian father the other week and there weren't a lot of topics we disagreed on once we broke things down to what's reasonable or not. I'd guess most of us are pretty close on issues if we stop talking past each other.
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Yup.

 
Family:  If we're including my wife's side of the family, it's really conservative.  My brother is a pastor in Cola town USA who despises everything Trump, but to his core is really conservative.  Though, he's not above following logic and reason when it comes to secular stuff.  We have great conversations most of the time.  My aunt and my mother are products of the news media they consume.  Both my dad and my uncle have passed and they are left to their own devices after years of never really having to go through life on their own.  My cousins are similar to me...have some things they are "left" on and some they are "right" on.  My wife is also kind of a product of the media she consumes.  There are times where it's challenging to have a conversation because it's rather clear I am arguing with the latest talking point from left leaning source X and not my wife.  My wife's family is unabashed full on conspiracy theory conservative with the exception of her brother and sister-in-law.  It's always good to be around those two, but the rest are a completely lost cause to have any sort of fruitful conversation with so we don't even try.

Co-Workers:  I have no idea.  I work remotely in Florida.  A lot of them are in Iowa, some in Charlotte NC, some in Minnesota.  Obviously politics doesn't come up during the work day.

Friends:  It's a mix of both (though I don't see them all that much anymore).  A few of us talk freely about politics and the like.  We are ok with disagreement and leave it at that when it happens.  Others I don't even bother talking with about it because their thoughts aren't their own (both lib and conserv).  

Society in General:  I live smack dab in the middle of a pro trump town....we have a "gathering" every single Friday at the largest intersection in the town that's been going since before the 2020 election.  On occasion they take the show on the road and ride around town parade style with their flags telling "liberals' to "piss off" and "die" etc.

 
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All over the place.

The least fun to be around.......the pissed off never Trumpers , followed closely by the Trumpers.

 
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