Comments on: Do You Have Only Red or Blue Friends?

By: Across the Aisle » How can we move from ideological balkanization to bipartisanship?

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:23:53 +0000

[...] In her most recent post, Victoria Holt poses an important question: “Do people reading this blog have friends who are politically different?” I agree with her assessment that too few of us do and more of us should. (I am guilty myself: in a quick count of twenty-five friends, I identified just two of them as conservatives.) [...]

By: deonb

deonb — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:06:41 +0000

First of all, I enjoy this blog and think PSA is doing valuable work. I’m a conservative college student (about to start grad school), and I’ve made a good number of liberal friends- having gone to college in Maryland, it was inevitable. However, I’ve also become estranged from certain people over politics. I think it’s important to befriend those with different views, however instinctively we cling to our “own,” and to appreciate the sincerity with which they hold their beliefs.

By: MMS from WA

MMS from WA — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:33:21 +0000

Is it actually true that the Dems and Reps each sit on ‘their’ side of the aisle? Or is that just an expression? If it is true, it is high time that we mix them up, perhaps seat them alphabetically or short to long, based on the numbers of years they have been in the Senate. Our country is going down the tubes fast and something like this may put an end to our ‘red vs blue’ dilema!