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How do you handle it when people ask for your political opinions in real life?
I had a woman ask me suddenly, out of the blue, "who did you vote for in the last election?" We were having a nice conversation before that point (not like, a meet-cute instant love or antyhing, but at least it was a good conversation). I answered truthfully that I had just recently changed my address at that time, so I didn't vote, because I was dealing with a lot and it just wasn't worth the effort for me of updating my voter info on top of everything else. She instantly made an annoyed face and turned away, never to talk to me again. She was obviously a liberal- god help me if I had said I voted for Trump. But like, what are we supposed to do in these situations? Is it just impossible to talk to people with different political opinions now?
No, you can filter out the ones who can't handle different political opinions by being up front about what you believe. I've got a few friends who've said we'll end up on opposite sides if there's a war, and the sense of humour there is why it works. I'm not American but I run into students and expats sometimes, they'll be sensitive if they're in a group but you can still find guys who'll look past that disagreement to make friends. You can tell a Muslim or Hindu to accept Christ or get out of the pub and most likely they'll just laugh about it.
If it goes wrong you can have fun making fun of a hysterical woman, or an angry Muslim, but you have to be willing to commit to the follow through in order to even say the first sentence and personally I've never seen any real consequences and the person crying about your political views just looks silly.
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