- 35% of Labour supporters say it would be hard to be friends with people who vote Conservative – five times the proportion of Conservative supporters (7%) who say the same about those who vote Labour.
- Labour supporters are more likely to describe Conservatives as selfish (74% vs 30%), closed-minded (75% vs 59%) and hypocritical (67% vs 52%) than the reverse, and half as likely to see them as honest (25% vs 50%) than the other way around.
- 55% of BLM supporters say it’s hard to be friends with someone who opposes BLM – the joint-highest proportion of any group included in this study who say they struggle to be friends with the other side. BLM opponents (26%) are half as likely to say they would have difficulty being friends with someone on the other side of the debate.
- BLM supporters have a particularly negative view of BLM opponents, rating their feelings towards them at 18 out of 100 – the joint-coldest rating given to a group across all the culture war issues asked about in this study. Those who oppose BLM give a slightly warmer rating of 25 out of 100 to those who support BLM.
There's apparently a whole PDF of 'Culture War' findings which I haven't looked into yet though in the link.
Reminds me of the comment made by Conservative Commentator Charles Krauthammer a looooong time ago.
"To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are wrong. Liberals think conservatives are evil." (I think a less flattering version is replacing the word wrong with stupid but ehhh... it's meant with love!)
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