Hi Michael, after reading your MSNBC piece I followed link to here to check out a personal thesis that Dems, on average, hate more on the Reps than vice versa. Personally I have a group of older friends who are mostly Rep, and younger ones who are mostly Dem. My Republican friends have plenty of bad things to say about Dem politicians, but less so about Democrat voters. Many Democrat friends however have normalized derogatory language about Rep voters.
Anyway it seems my guess was somewhat right with Republican favorable+depends of Dems @37% vs Democrat favorable+depends of Reps @21% per your research.
Just because a different subculture has stereotypes we might dislike, its (obviously) retrogressive to dehumanize people. Trump was guilty of this, but given the generally higher education of Dems, I would have somehow hoped they'd be more self aware.
The volume of rep-bashing is more extreme on Social Media. You might be guilty, for example with your "Batshit Crazy" link for Arizona vote investigation? I don't see that type of language being used by eg Greenwald when he challenges Dem concerns.
I hope journalists and academics get over this, and can set a more civilized example for the rest of us.
You are on a roll. The other day it was - Israelis are under siege. And today you both sides polarization and the worst example you can come up for Dems is them continuing to wear masks a couple days after the cdc said we don’t have to anymore. Awesome!
Hi Michael, after reading your MSNBC piece I followed link to here to check out a personal thesis that Dems, on average, hate more on the Reps than vice versa. Personally I have a group of older friends who are mostly Rep, and younger ones who are mostly Dem. My Republican friends have plenty of bad things to say about Dem politicians, but less so about Democrat voters. Many Democrat friends however have normalized derogatory language about Rep voters.
Anyway it seems my guess was somewhat right with Republican favorable+depends of Dems @37% vs Democrat favorable+depends of Reps @21% per your research.
Just because a different subculture has stereotypes we might dislike, its (obviously) retrogressive to dehumanize people. Trump was guilty of this, but given the generally higher education of Dems, I would have somehow hoped they'd be more self aware.
The volume of rep-bashing is more extreme on Social Media. You might be guilty, for example with your "Batshit Crazy" link for Arizona vote investigation? I don't see that type of language being used by eg Greenwald when he challenges Dem concerns.
I hope journalists and academics get over this, and can set a more civilized example for the rest of us.
You are on a roll. The other day it was - Israelis are under siege. And today you both sides polarization and the worst example you can come up for Dems is them continuing to wear masks a couple days after the cdc said we don’t have to anymore. Awesome!