07/16/24 Tony Kurre Radio Presents Empathy Ever After with Lila and David Sears

Episode 1304,   Jul 17, 01:44 AM

How do you manage a relationship when your political beliefs are different? Lila and David Sears delve into a tough issue facing many couples today. #Politics #Dating #Relationships #EmpathyEverAfter #TKR #TKRApp #TonyKurreRadio #LilaSears #DavidSears #Love #Empathy #Respect

71% of Democrats say they would not date a Trump voter while 47% of Republicans wouldn’t date a Clinton Voter according to a poll done by Pew Research in 2020.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/24/most-democrats-who-are-looking-for-a-relationship-would-not-consider-dating-a-trump-voter/

An article by The Hill in 2023 shows that women tend to make political views a dealbreaker while dating.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/3917348-politics-are-increasingly-a-dating-dealbreaker-especially-for-women/

A YouGov poll in 2020 shows the breakdown of men and women on if they’d date politically different partners
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2020/08/11/eacef/3

Peter Thiel funded “The Right Stuff,” a conservative dating app, in 2022, and it had inconveniently low numbers of women on it. It also had a trolling problem.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/women-turned-off-by-billionaire-peter-thiels-conservative-dating-app-the-right-stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(app)#:~:text=The%20Right%20Stuff%20is%20a,is%20funded%20by%20Peter%20Thiel.

We don’t just feel more politically polarized. That we as a nation have become more politically polarized is borne out by evidence, and we have become more polarized than other democratized nations. In fact, half of the OECD countries studied for one paper saw affective polarization decrease rather than increase. (Japan, Australia, Britain, Norway, Sweden, and Germany) In other words, their people became more unified.
Boxell, L., Gentzkow, M., & Shapiro, J. M. (2021, November). Cross-Country Trends in Affective Polarization. https://www.nber.org/papers/w26669 

Newsweek looks at the dating polarization growing even more since the 2020 election.
https://www.newsweek.com/why-democrats-republicans-are-not-dating-poll-1787923

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/political-divides-cut-through-marriages-and-families-in-the-run-up-to-the-2024-election



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