I did run into one independent at the dog park in my blue state. He voted for Gore in 2000, though, even though he supported Bush this time because he thought Kerry was so lame. There was one Bush supporter who lives on our street, but he kept his Jeep turned around in the driveway so the bumper sticker wouldn't show until after the election. And of course, the countryside everywhere in America is much more conservative than the cities, so in those areas I am fairly reserved about expressing my ideas. When our car was at the shop to get a new transmission, someone ripped off my "Who Would Jesus Bomb?" bumper sticker, so I don't stick out anymore when I drive to the strawberry fields.
The thing is, though, I don't think I could really be close friends in 3D with a conservative because our values are so different. I have never had any Republican friends or family members, ever, that I know of. I have had friends at work who don't volunteer any political views who could possibly have been Republican, and I have online friends of several persuasions. Being fairly political, and enjoying typically liberal pursuits, I don't think I would really have enough in common with a 3D conservative friend to keep a friendship going, unless the other person in it was not interested in talking about stuff like that at all, and we had another really compelling interest in common. I do not like hunting, but I might end up protesting outside a furrier's store or something. That kind of puts me on a collision course with a lot of more conservative people. |
