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I remember hanging out with a bunch of people who were politically-inclined in Greenwich Village in the 1970s-1980s. I do get what you mean. Ideology trumps reality with these people.

I was fortunate enough to find, however, that this sort of ideology trumping reality is rare outside of these so-called circles. Many of these people have an axe to grind, frankly. And many of them are not worth talking to, because they don't LISTEN! All they do is try to find some rhetorical device or other to veer away from the essence of the thing, and to make sure THEIR take on an issue is the one which wins the argument. Lot of this stuff is pure ego.

People who have to work for a living, and have to raise kids, are almost always more moderate in outlook. This is because they were forced to become moderate through having to compromise for the sake of their livelihood (and their kids).

I want to thank people for being at least patient and trying to understand in this thread.

I guess I'm trying to explain what I want to say but my reluctance to do so in case people from my day-to-day life will uncover it, or the special snowflake brigade seek to "win" a debate rather than guide me towards the light, makes it very difficult.

In short, this is a thread about dating, and the problem is all the interest groups, work people and business prospects I have are all super-left wing that it's part of everything they do. Everyone's life here seems to be a protest, an attempt to fight battles, defend all groups of all kinds but constantly remind me in spite of being broke I'm somehow lucky and to think otherwise results in exclusion, name calling, shaming and so on. For Americans chiming into this thread, think of the Current campus culture over there and that will sum up me trying to interact with anyone locally between 18-40 perfectly.

Brexit has made it worse yes, and that will fade, but they've always been like this and it's gotten worse over time. Simply put, I feel there is no place for someone like me here in my own back yard, even more so when it comes to finding a date.
I think I've explained myself, you're welcome to tell me I'm wrong (somehow) but I guess I'm here for advice on LDR's. I'd consider girls from WP btw, Boo! But I was met with extreme vitriol here as well when I made it clear just one time I wasn't attracted to someone nor did I find them interesting (and this was not even from the girl I was interacting with but someone who had asked me about it). Almost like I had no say in the matter, so understandably that's made me very defensive of even engaging women on WP.

Kraftie - yep. Well put. But most of the people in my age group here fit that description so I am rather limited.

What you're talking about is campus culture.

Once people leave the campus, they have to run into real life.

Encountering real life, usually, takes the edge off the "extremist" views which people espoused while they were going to college/university.

It's possible that some of these people still believe in what they believe in while they were on campus--but the edge, usually, is usually dulled through life experience, and encounters with many different sorts of people.

They realize that reality trumps ideology every time.

What does Brexit have to do with Love and Dating?

It's the same with Republicans here. Even secular Republicans like myself (though I am a practicing Lutheran) are treated as if we were far-right extremists.

If you are looking for someone who likes animated comedies and/or is the artsy type, you'd better be a Democrat. Most political conservatives think those things are as bad as porn.

I am a pro-free market non-communist atheist, leaning more to pro west -, therefore my ideas are not so accepted by most atheists here who are usually politically communists, marxists, and very anti-west.

Their reason of atheism also differs; I am atheist because I was moderatly religious, then I read religions and wasn't convinced and was more convinced by science. - while them seem to be dogmatically atheists due to communism, and usually have been atheists much younger than when I first started to doubt religion. There are families here who are entirely communists.

TheSpectrum, it sucks that Brexit has made your situation worse.