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Husband has extreme right wing views

924 replies

HelpMeUnderstandPolitics · 24/08/2025 20:34

Not sure if this is the right place to post as it's not an AIBU but more of I think my husband is being and I'm not sure what to do about it.

He's getting caught up in some quite extreme right wing views in regards to migrants. Complains about how they're coming in, being housed in hotels, paid allowances etc. with no checks and how crime rates such as rape are now ten fold etc. He thinks Trump is great 😪 He's very intelligent so I'm not sure how he's managed to get caught up in this extremist view point.

WWYD?

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Bingbongsingalong · 24/08/2025 21:49

It would be a deal breaker for me and he'd be out on his ear, but I appreciate it's not always as simple as just leaving someone.

At the very least I would make it crystal clear that if he so much as uttered a single word of his opinions around our children, he'd be out.

hamstersarse · 24/08/2025 21:49

So many controlling women on this thread!

imagine thinking you are the good one while dictating that people can only have the same opinion as you

smallpinecone · 24/08/2025 21:50

JHound · 24/08/2025 21:45

Leaving somebody does not mean differences of opinion cannot be tolerated.

It can simply mean that there is now a chasm
where shared values used to be.

If you don’t have the same shared values and priorities then you wouldn’t have married them, surely?

Ending a marriage and upending children’s lives because parents can’t agree to disagree - or just not discuss politics - is ludicrous. No compromise, no discussion, no meeting of the minds… it just teaches the children there’s only one way to think, that politics are paramount in life and that they’d better make sure they have the correct opinions, otherwise they’ll be cast aside too.

JHound · 24/08/2025 21:50

Zov · 24/08/2025 21:48

58% were from Pakistan.

Funny you didn't mention that. Wink

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It’s an oppressive state.
People don’t just seek asylum from war zones.

Zov · 24/08/2025 21:51

SueSuddio · 24/08/2025 21:39

OP, some of these responses are utterly batshit.

Your husband is not extreme far right, he's just outwardly saying what a lot of people are thinking, even what the Labour government is thinking as they try to find ways to curb mass asylum immigration.

Also, over 50% of America voted for Trump. You have to understand that many very decent people would have voted for him. It's hard to get your head around but you can't think that all these millions of Trump supporters are terrible humans?

There's worse things your husband could be saying. Is he kind, a good worker, loving, a good dad, respectful to you and to women? I would just agree to disagree here.

This ^ A LOT of people think like the OP's husband. That's why Reform wiped the floor with the oppostion back in the Spring, and gave Labour a bloody nose.

The Left cannot get their heads around it at ALL, and label anyone who has even slightly 'right of centre' views, who thinks Farage is OK, and is worried about mass (illegal) immigration 'thick as mince,' 'uneducated,' 'racist,' 'bigoted,' 'a flag-shagger,' and 'gammon!' No way in HELL can everyone who voted for REFORM, be all of the above! ^

Funny that they call them gammon, because I know a number of POC who are as concerned as any white person about illegal immigration, and the number of young single males coming across the channel on boats every day. (Most who are NOT fleeing war zones!) Hilariously you just know that none of these lib-lefties would offer a room to one of these guys for one second!

Weekmindedfool · 24/08/2025 21:52

SL2924 · 24/08/2025 21:31

Get him off social media if he is. That’s what’s probably fuelling it as it becomes a bit of an echo chamber and keeps on feeding the beast.

It’s her husband not her 12 yo child. He is an adult you can’t and have no right to “get him off sm”

Zov · 24/08/2025 21:52

JHound · 24/08/2025 21:50

It’s an oppressive state.
People don’t just seek asylum from war zones.

course diss GIF

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Slightyamusedandsilly · 24/08/2025 21:52

HelpMeUnderstandPolitics · 24/08/2025 20:41

Whilst I see everyone's point, I don't feel that it's worth throwing my marriage away for. We have children and a otherwise happy home.

How happy will your family be when one of your children tells you they're gay. Or brings home a non-white partner. And their bigoted dad breaks their heart by his homophobic, racist treatment of their partner?

OR even worse, passes his horrific world view on to your children.

RampantIvy · 24/08/2025 21:52

He thinks Trump is great 😪 He's very intelligent

Do those two even belong in the same sentence?

smallpinecone · 24/08/2025 21:53

Bingbongsingalong · 24/08/2025 21:49

It would be a deal breaker for me and he'd be out on his ear, but I appreciate it's not always as simple as just leaving someone.

At the very least I would make it crystal clear that if he so much as uttered a single word of his opinions around our children, he'd be out.

Is this how the tolerant, inclusive, kind, intelligent left behave?

Maybe he could throw you out for your political opinions instead? Would you feel that’s acceptable? If you can do it, so can he.

Weekmindedfool · 24/08/2025 21:53

Slightyamusedandsilly · 24/08/2025 21:52

How happy will your family be when one of your children tells you they're gay. Or brings home a non-white partner. And their bigoted dad breaks their heart by his homophobic, racist treatment of their partner?

OR even worse, passes his horrific world view on to your children.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

JHound · 24/08/2025 21:53

It’s weird how when some women say they don’t wish to date men with “far right” views they are terrible and intolerant.

When men don’t wish to date liberal women or feminist that’s completely fine.

Odd.

Secretroses · 24/08/2025 21:53

blubberyboo · 24/08/2025 20:47

Is it really "extremist' for a person to complain about something in politics that is on the news and being discussed by media and politicians??

From what you have said he hasn't expressed words of violence or going out on protests, rallying groups or joining them on marches etc. Has he been doing this?Is he participating in civil disobedience

Have you countered his viewpoints with other opinion/evidence? That's what most married couples do when they disagree on something.
I wouldn't just jump on the advice being thrown on here about your marriage.

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I think those jumping straight in with 'LTB' are demonstrating extremism themselves!

SeaAndStars · 24/08/2025 21:54

Kibble19 · 24/08/2025 21:49

Also, why are people constantly commenting “I bet he likes going on foreign holidays” and making reference to how he couldn’t eat certain foods without immigration?

Few people have issues with legal migration (and the ones who do are idiots who should realise the contribution that migrants make to our vital services) but illegal entry to the UK is a very real issue that’s presenting all sorts of issues for our wider society.

There's a monumental difference in the two groups. And people promoting the idea that someone with issue over illegal entrants must also hate everyone who isn’t British born, are very often wrong.

Farage and his ilk throw their all behind blurring this distinction in order to create division.

Weekmindedfool · 24/08/2025 21:55

Bingbongsingalong · 24/08/2025 21:49

It would be a deal breaker for me and he'd be out on his ear, but I appreciate it's not always as simple as just leaving someone.

At the very least I would make it crystal clear that if he so much as uttered a single word of his opinions around our children, he'd be out.

Hopefully he’ll see sense and kick you out first.

hamstersarse · 24/08/2025 21:55

RampantIvy · 24/08/2025 21:52

He thinks Trump is great 😪 He's very intelligent

Do those two even belong in the same sentence?

I suppose you count yourself as being mega intelligent while simultaneously cheering on the Labour government

EmeraldShamrock000 · 24/08/2025 21:55

My.Dsis, husband is the same, getting worse, personally I'd restructure the patio.
She hates him.
I couldn't be with someone like that.
My Dsis husband has got worse over the years, he's poisoned.
Your DH is too.
Big Trump fan too.

Elle771 · 24/08/2025 21:56

HelpMeUnderstandPolitics · 24/08/2025 20:41

Whilst I see everyone's point, I don't feel that it's worth throwing my marriage away for. We have children and a otherwise happy home.

Stay then but don't complain when your kids get sucked in too. What did you want people to say?!

smallpinecone · 24/08/2025 21:56

Secretroses · 24/08/2025 21:53

I think those jumping straight in with 'LTB' are demonstrating extremism themselves!

Yes, they have the ‘correct’ opinions that everyone must share - or else.

RingoJuice · 24/08/2025 21:56

MumWifeOther · 24/08/2025 21:32

Are we now pretending that white men don’t gang rape women?

Are we going to pretend that texting your friends to come rape with you is such a common pattern?

There was a case in Hamburg where a girl was raped by at least two separate groups of migrants. One of them was known to have texted his friends to come assault this girl. NINE were convicted, only one even got a custodial sentence.

Do you want to become a country where separate groups of men will rape you in a park? I sure wouldn’t.

hamstersarse · 24/08/2025 21:57

JHound · 24/08/2025 21:53

It’s weird how when some women say they don’t wish to date men with “far right” views they are terrible and intolerant.

When men don’t wish to date liberal women or feminist that’s completely fine.

Odd.

liberal women like a soy boy they can control

TranceNation · 24/08/2025 21:57

People take politics far too seriously these days if you are getting this pent up about someone else's political opinions. It's really not good for your state of mind to get to this level of obsessiveness where you let it dictate your relationships and friendships. This is why I don't do politics anymore. All it does is cause hate and division.

Zov · 24/08/2025 21:57

Weekmindedfool · 24/08/2025 21:53

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Gotta admit, I'm embarrassed for that poster! 😬

SquishedMallow · 24/08/2025 21:58

I think people can have different views and remain married. Just stay off political topics where reasonable. You're entitled to your views. He's entitled to his. You haven't mentioned that he's done anything worrying or extreme or abused anyone, so at the end of the day , they're just views.

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