I mean, this journalist went out to intentionally date alt-right men:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU5gjuffw3E

I'm sure some of you guys have seen it. I've seen multiple videos and I think the first date was a guy that threatened to kill her before and that women like her would either be killed or be slaves or something like that. She also said that these men hang around left-leaning people and act and talk like them when they're in front of others. So they seem to hide well too.

Why is every girl I meet alt right.

Oh... Okay...

sadly packs up his Mentos and Diet Coke

Just saying "I didn't vote for Trump" isn't enough. You have to follow up that question with "Why?" and their answer will tell you more about their politics than their voting record. For example, there are authoritarians that didn't vote for Trump because he's simply not their particular brand of authoritarian.

It’s hilarious to me that the only people in this thread complaining about how hard dating is are people that I have tagged previously for having really heinous opinions.

And MAGA bros are looking for

Which are representational traditional Christian selfless values that Jesus intended

We ain't dating someone who doesn't think ALL people deserve equal rights in this goddamn country. Go fornicate yourself, you shitweasel, and stop wasting our time.

There ya go! That is the opinion of a lot of women just in case it wasn't clear enough.

In order to proceed with this date, please answer the following questions.

Are you a facist? Y/N

Seems reasonable.

Chemistry is worthless if they want to report all of your family

Now I'm pondering the hypothetical situation of having "chemistry" with a fascist. And it sounds a lot like most abusive relationships.

I find it incredibly distressing that I can remember a time when people connected with each other, learned about each others values, principles and ideas for themselves and their nation, and they largely adapted to each other, they compromised, they changed views and tried to make things work.

The idea that now we've let the system become so vastly important to us that voting lines determine basic compatibility as humans talking to each other is just tragic. It's an artificial boundary that groups of people have deliberately built around us and we took it on and embraced it.

I would never endorse "giving a violent MAGA redneck a chance" or something, but the reality is more nuanced and there are thousands and thousands of median voters who have no idea what's going on in politics and figure a vote for trump was the same as a vote for bernie was the same as a vote for clinton and so on. It doesn't make them bad it makes them overworked, ignorant, tired or poorly educated.

We would do better at least talking to people more, particularly people we don't agree with so we can learn how to reach them and bring them up to a better place.

edit: a lot of you have never talked to another human in your life and base all your beliefs about the average median voter from youtube shorts that algorithms have fed you to make you angry and want to hate them. Welcome to being a cog.