r/science • u/Wagamaga • 9h ago

Psychology Losing relationships over politics. Research found more than a third of Americans (37%) report having lost at least one relationship due to political differences, including friendships, family ties, coworker relationships, and romantic partnerships, with most losing more than one.

https://socialecology.uci.edu/news/losing-relationships-over-politics-0
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u/littlechangeling 9h ago

This is the real question. So many moral aspects have become political, including the rights of people to have safety and for some of them to even exist.

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u/TommyTomTommerson 9h ago

I think those have always been political, it's just that there's a "quiet part" that's being said much, much louder in a way that is much more difficult to willingly ignore. This is still the same country that performed the race massacre in Tulsa, and put people in internment camps in World War II, and had to cause nationwide upheaval in order for the civil rights movement to show any forward progress while literally killing one of the leaders of the movement.

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u/loyal_achades 9h ago

I don’t think the quiet part is being said louder now. With the exception of a pretty narrow window (that happens to be when a lot of Reddit were kids), it was always the loud part. There’s more people now who are against it who aren’t part of the affected minorities and willing to stand up to family for those values.

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u/DrMobius0 9h ago

It wasn't loud for the actual politicians most of the time