I know there are vast swaths of the country where you can get fired for holding liberal opinions,
Fuck his "both sides" bullshit. This is a MUCH larger issue with leftists.
Back in 2008, I worked for a dyed-in-the-wool conservative who owned the company and had just invested a ton of money into it. As the economy was imploding, I brought up in conversation that I voted Obama (Obama was an unproven devil at the time, but McCain was an objectively evil man). I also mentioned that I thought we should let all these banks fail.
I had no fear of backlash because conservatives are capable of having differing opinions without feeling the need to destroy anyone who disagrees. The owner simply disagreed with me, and we continued on working together for years.
There were studies on this. Conservatives understand liberals. They think they are misguided, maybe stupid, but they understand how they come to the conclusions they reach. Liberals on the other hand do not understand conservatives. They think conservatives reach the conclusions they do because they are evil people. Not even kidding here. Which gives a lot of credence to the conservative stance that liberals are stupid, ironically.
Fuck his "both sides" bullshit. This is a MUCH larger issue with leftists.
Back in 2008, I worked for a dyed-in-the-wool conservative who owned the company and had just invested a ton of money into it. As the economy was imploding, I brought up in conversation that I voted Obama (Obama was an unproven devil at the time, but McCain was an objectively evil man). I also mentioned that I thought we should let all these banks fail.
I had no fear of backlash because conservatives are capable of having differing opinions without feeling the need to destroy anyone who disagrees. The owner simply disagreed with me, and we continued on working together for years.
There were studies on this. Conservatives understand liberals. They think they are misguided, maybe stupid, but they understand how they come to the conclusions they reach. Liberals on the other hand do not understand conservatives. They think conservatives reach the conclusions they do because they are evil people. Not even kidding here. Which gives a lot of credence to the conservative stance that liberals are stupid, ironically.