Where can I interact with Republicans "in the wild"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well…I’m waiting to pick up my groceries right now, and I need to go to Costco because I am cooking dinner at the homeless shelter this week and need bulk quantities that I will struggle to store in my 1200-foot row house that is walkable to metro (because that’s how I prefer to travel). Then I’m spending my day at various youth sports.

My (shelter) dogs are driving me nuts because I worked too late this week and the weather was bad, so I am hoping I can take them to the dog park today while it’s sunny.

We will get take out (probably Indian) and watch a documentary on Netflix tonight (this is why the dog park is super critical).

Tomorrow, we’ll go to our Episcopal church, and brunch. My son wants to go thrifting, and then we have symphony tickets.

So come on out to Alexandria, and join the fun!

Exactly. Bravo. OP sounds like she is not only living deep in her echo chamber, but is also just not very bright.

[Anonymous]

OP doesn't really want to "understand why they think the way they do." She wants to pick fights with them and insist they think the way SHE does. That's pretty much DCUM in a nutshell.

[Anonymous]

ZOMG I am surrounded by wrong thinking citizens!

[Anonymous]

Plenty of them in Woodmoor. They may not be wearing MAGA hats, but they’re voting for Trump and are Republicans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Local fire station, sports bar, maybe even the quite people in your neighborhood who just go about their lives.

They are everywhere in Montgomery County. They just don't talk politics because they are outnumbered. They are doing all the same things you are doing. Working, raising kids, yard work, vacation, etc.

You only hear the vocal ones, and they tend to be closer to MAGA types.

You'll have to present yourself as more open-minded to even have a shot at a real conversation with someone who's conservative around here.

~mainline liberal with some mainline conservative (aka not MAGA) friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids went to day care in Arlington with the children of Republican senators' chiefs of staff. The playground they went to as toddlers is closed to protect JD Vance. You may not be in as much of a liberal bubble as you think, people are just too polite to broadcast political differences in these settings.

Sean Spicer's kid was on my son's baseball team for two years. Decent dude who helped out a lot at practice and games.

Oh yeah, the chiefs of staff were good parents and friendly people. I liked them personally and tried to foster our kids' friendships despite being a leftist who thinks their work is incredibly harmful to the country.

The cognitive dissonance of living close in to DC is real. And that's why we don't talk politics on the playground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mission in the Navy Yard

+1

Also, this is a really ick post for Republicans. We aren't the token people in your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:a youth travel baseball game.

Can confirm

[Anonymous]

They are all around you and keep quiet because they don't want to be bothered by you. See: every politics thread which starts with "Why do Republicans believe X?" and two pages later is nothing but ad hominem attacks.

[Anonymous]

Yep, we Republican Trump supporters are everywhere in northern VA but contrary to the previous poster on page 2 who said we hide because we are ashamed, we are quiet because:
1. We know it’s not good manners to openly scream at someone who believes differently.
And
2. We are afraid of retaliation because Trump Derangement Syndrome is very real and you people are dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, we Republican Trump supporters are everywhere in northern VA but contrary to the previous poster on page 2 who said we hide because we are ashamed, we are quiet because:
1. We know it’s not good manners to openly scream at someone who believes differently.
And
2. We are afraid of retaliation because Trump Derangement Syndrome is very real and you people are dangerous.

Wow…thought you were supposed to be tough.

I believe the term for you is….snowflake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like such a weird Beltway kind of question but I really do want to break out of my bubble.
I live in Takoma Park, and I have only ever lived in blue states or Europe.
The most conservative members of my family are now never-Trump/Lincoln Project type Republicans, all the rest are Democrats. I have two Republican friends here and they both hate Trump.

I'm sure I could crash a Young Republicans meetup, but I'm not looking for a strictly political setting. I want to just see how people who think way differently from me live their lives as normal people and understand why they think the way they do. I'm not religious so it's not like I'm going to sit in an evangelical church just for this purpose. And I'm not trying to do so as some weird social experiment and write a thinkpiece about it. I just want to meet people and understand them. Where would I go that is most likely to have Trump/new right/populist conservatives just existing in their own lives? Other than stereotypical things like a gun club. Maybe some kind of small town event far enough outside the DC suburbs?

Go to the flea market in Front Royal, VA on a weekend. Talk to the folks selling Trump merch.

[Anonymous]

Take a weekend trip to Lynchburg, Va. Or, even better, the counties around Lynchburg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well…I’m waiting to pick up my groceries right now, and I need to go to Costco because I am cooking dinner at the homeless shelter this week and need bulk quantities that I will struggle to store in my 1200-foot row house that is walkable to metro (because that’s how I prefer to travel). Then I’m spending my day at various youth sports.

My (shelter) dogs are driving me nuts because I worked too late this week and the weather was bad, so I am hoping I can take them to the dog park today while it’s sunny.

We will get take out (probably Indian) and watch a documentary on Netflix tonight (this is why the dog park is super critical).

Tomorrow, we’ll go to our Episcopal church, and brunch. My son wants to go thrifting, and then we have symphony tickets.

So come on out to Alexandria, and join the fun!

I have read this 3x. I can’t tell if this is meant to point out OP’s assumption of what Trump supporters look like is offensive or a parody of every liberal who lives in Takoma Park or Delray and is astonishingly basic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP doesn't really want to "understand why they think the way they do." She wants to pick fights with them and insist they think the way SHE does. That's pretty much DCUM in a nutshell.

And MAGA people want to connect and understand Democrats and Liberals? Lol. No thet just want to pick fights and insist that evertone should think like they do.

Plus, they want to take away my rights. And not feel safe