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@jilla82 The thing now too is that a lot of conservatives these days (I'm not counting the hardcore nationalists and die hard Trump voters) have largely accepted that they've lost the culture wars. Most of them seem to just want to be left alone and aren't that fanatical about pushing their ideas onto other people anymore. The reasonable conservatives I interact with mostly just want to live in a sphere of society where they can keep their guns and religion in peace. Many are pro marijuana legalization, many at the very least don't give a shyt either way about gay marriage, and many don't care anymore about the death penalty. Pro-Life seems to be the last social issue that many conservatives haven't entirely given up the culture wars on.
Again, maybe this would be better for another thread, and if I make one I'll tag you, but I am very concerned about people that have been on the left their entire lives being alienated from the left going forward; a lot of people don't want to be called transphobic because they made the wrong joke on twitter, etc. There are people that have been democrats their entire lives that feel like political orphans now, and I don't want the right taking these people up because of identity politics and the left allowing Twitter mobs that don't represent most people dictating how everyone behaves.
