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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a woman that is pretty progressive and liberal and works in gender equity.  I've been on a few dates with a conservative/republican.  He's super respectful, [b]but do any of you see any long term issues or have any experience? [/b] We are both agnostic.[/quote]

Maybe. When my husband and I met/started dating I would say we were both moderate, with him being right-leaning and me being left-leaning. Over the years I'd say he went more right and I went more left, but more in the vein of James Carville and Mary Matalin. We simply believed in different avenues to address social and economic issues. Then he went all in for Trump. That was truly a shock and created a rift that I don't think will ever truly heal. We can't discuss anything remotely political anymore. When I post my experience on here I usually get some combination of people calling me a crazy leftist (I'm not) or suggesting we just "don't talk about politics." But I would not have married a person who refused to acknowledge that Heather Heyer was murdered at the Unite the Right Rally, or who seems to legitimately believe Biden didn't win the 2020 election and all the surrounding conspiracy theories, among other things. If I could have seen ahead to 2016 I would have left the marriage years earlier.

So I guess I'd say - have the hard discussions. It's one thing to think that program like affirmative action may not be the best way to address historic inequality. It's another to claim it doesn't exist and deride anyone who thinks it does as "woke" when using woke is a slur. I started out with the former and am now living the latter.[/quote]

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