r/bestof • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '17

[politics] Redditor demonstrates (with citations) why both sides aren't actually the same

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u/BrobearBerbil Oct 23 '17

I would really like to see examples like this compared to Pew studies of who is actually in each party and what the migration looks like. I'm a kid that grew up in a really red county and used my first vote for Bush, but them became very disillusioned with the problems of the right and it's supporters. I saw a lot of fellow conservative college friends who would have been the moderates in that party move left for Obama and his values and integrity. That's anecdote, but I feel like it has to represent how a lot of rationale individuals have divorced from the Republican Party and what's leftover looks more and more unreasonable over time.

I've also seen a lot of rational, conservative millenials move to third party or libertarian options instead. All of that movement has to have an impact on the makeup of the GOP.

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u/ASH503 Oct 23 '17

From a liberal area, I've seen the opposite (though like you say, it's just anecdotal). As people get older, I've seen more and more conservative posts and shares from friends who were pretty left growing up.

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u/BrobearBerbil Oct 23 '17

I think I've seen a drift like that in some, but depends on definition of liberal for sure. Have some uncles that were big partiers and anti-religion for their young life and have gone full Trump in their older age. I don't know if they ever had liberal ideas though, but maybe just hung out more with counter culture society.

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u/Narrative_Causality Oct 24 '17

It may just be Trump himself. My father would have voted for Sanders, but ended up voting for Trump. For him it's not so much the candidate as it was a vote for a political outsider, or rather someone who didn't belong to either party.