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You can but only if you are open minded enough...My boyfriend has some views that are hugely different to mine but luckily enough some of our views do crossover although some of the things I feel strongly about and he disagrees but I can appreciate his point of view and I understand where he is coming from...
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Although I don't know if I could forgive anyone for following George Bush, that's an unforgivable sin for me...

Love knows no bounds, because it's hormonal, but as we all have learned it isn't eternal either. So you'll haver have, a burning hot love that will peter out in flames over such fundamental issues , as elephants and donkeys... women's rights, oil exploration in protected wildlife zones, sending young Americans to die for oil (to name but a few)..
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Is it worth it ? Can you ignore your fundamental differences, and for how long ?..
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-Carlos..
Angie rules...

Nope. My convictions are held too deeply. To me, it's not just "politics" -- it's human rights, respect for other people, animals and the planet, equality, love, justice. Someone who held radically different views from me might seem initially attractive, but I could never build a long-term relationship with anyone whose core values were opposed to mine...

Absolutely not. I wouldn't be able to focus on the relationship -I'd always be trying to change their views. I briefly dated a guy once who was pretty conservative, and we started talking (I think it was on our second date) about transgender rights, and he was just clueless and closed-minded about it, and that totally turned me off. So I ended it soon after (although I did make an attempt to explain my views to him, but he wasn't willing to listen). ..
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I have a good friend who is bisexual and a liberal Democrat, and she's married (!) to a hardcore conservative right-wing guy. He's a huge fan of George Bush. it's the strangest thing. i couldn't believe it when she told me about his political views (I'd known them about a year). I don't know how they do it, but it works for them, and I respect that. I just couldn't do it myself...

I'm afraid that it would be a big deal-breaker for me if we were on opposite sides of the fence. I have a few friends that we have opposing viewpoints politically, but we never discuss and the friendships aren't the real deep, soulful type. I could never get past that in a lover/partner. It is very important to me...