Ugh. My sister married a conservative young-Earth Christian. He was okay if you avoided talking about politics or religion, but generally was an insufferably arrogant douche. It was disturbing for us to see her adopt his beliefs, as she had before been a generally agnostic free-thinker. But we kept our thoughts to…

YES!!!

I am ok with that kind of Republican - but if he’s still turning out voting for complete assholes on election day, all this “calming down” is really not worth anything.

You know, there’s a lot my girlfriend and I disagree on but I really don’t think I could be in a relationship with someone whose politics just fundamentally opposed my humanity as a black man in this country, same way I know she couldn’t date some “close the borders Mexicans took ur jerbs” douchenozzle.

Seriously. My father was a Republican in the 60s. He pretty much hasn’t changed his ideology and would call himself a moderate democrat. However, if you ask him specific questions he’s farther to the left than Hilary Clinton, so . . .

I’ve been weeding them out. Carpooling, cocktail parties, yes. But when you tell me how gay can be cured, blacks are scary and picketing abortion clinics is God’s work...nope. It’s way too hard and exhausting. Plus, honestly, I was wasting so much of my time processing and calming down my ragestroke from all the…

My sister joked about this a child. She liked Alex P. Keaton. She came to her senses before she could vote.

I bet you are white. Conservatives are never “WONDERFUL” to me. That's probably because I'm a Mexican inmigrant.

I’ve always hated this notion that politics falls under the same category as favorite sports team or whether you prefer your ribs St. Louis style or Kansas City style. My values happen to align most directly with the left wing of the Democratic Party. I don’t have a donkey tattoo, and I won’t be naming children or…

Forget having kids getting married, I have a hard time keeping anything deeper than a passing light friendship with serious conservatives. Many of them are WONDERFUL, personally-kind people who would give you the shirt off their back, but one too many conversations about how the gays want to fuck our school kids or…

My kids? I don’t want my *friends* to marry Republicans. Their hearts are as small as a mouse’s fist and/or they are extremely stupid and bigoted.

Just before the 2004 election, I got a letter from W with an 8 x 10 photo. When I took it out of the envelope, my then-nine-year-old daughter said, “you support George Bush?,” and she kicked me in the shin. My son is an anarchist in the silliest way possible. We had the lawn signs for Gore, Kerry, and Obama, a…

Why would you be happy that your child is marrying someone who belongs to a hate group like the Republican Party?

James Carville and Mary Matalin, married for over twenty years. My husband and I have been married for over thirty years, and until the past two elections I used to say that we might as well not bother voting since we cancelled each other out. I am happy to report he has finally seen the light.

I don’t need to take that test; I know I’d be really biased. I just can’t make myself feel bad about it..so, sorry, not sorry?

My grandfather was a man ahead of his time. He counseled all his girls that republicans would make TERRIBLE husbands. We all married democrats. Very low divorce rate in our very matriarchal family.

I believe it. My parents are incredibly open-minded about *nearly* everything, but if I brought home a Republican? It wouldn’t fly. Neither side of my family has had any conservatives in my lifetime.

Yeah, husband was railing against parents who feel justified in disowning their children because of how they identify (in terms of gender / sexuality), and I said “well, what if they identified as Republican?” and then we both shuddered. It’s most definitely an identity issue at this point.

I truly believe that many GOP lawmakers and citizens are really showing their bias against having a black president. I have never seen such a divide against one president. Even Bill Clinton was respected on many levels that Obama has not seen. If the president says the sky is blue, the GOP will fight him on this and…

If either of my kids marries a hipster trans off-the-grid vegan who wants to invent a new, shared last name I would say “Mazel!” and buy them mixing bowls. If they came home with a legit Conservative...I would panic. I do not long for the days when POC did not have Civil Rights (1964 wasn’t so long ago people). I do…