how politically close are you an your dp/dh?

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

this came up on another thread - the one about what you talk about...I have to confess that I sometimes find some of dh's politics difficult. He's lefty (like me) in what he would like for the world but more right in how he thinks it can be achieved. does being different bother any of you ? or are you all perfectly matched?

we're very evenly matched
except I know more than he does

As I said on the other thread dp and I are at opposite ends of the political spectrum I am up there with Karl Marx and he is down there with Enoch Powell. We also ahve very different attitudes to politics he thinks politics is a waste of time and they are all corrupt, he never votes whereas I am very active politically and will eventually probably pursue a career in politics.

We are both products of a tough poverty stricken childhood which has resulted in me wanting to give everyone every chance I can to make the most of themselves and he just says well I worked my way out of poverty so why can't others.

I do find him quite smallminded, particulalry about immigration and I actually left hime for a few weeks after he made some comments about immigrants that angered me.

Whenever we go on holiday he has to spend all his time sying how much better things are at home and he can't bring himself to enjoy any kind of foriegn cultural experience as that would be disloyal to his British Bulldog roots!

I knwo I wind him up as well, he acuses me of being a left wing softie who sees the good in everyone ( he means that as an insult - I can't actually see the insult in that!)and thinks everyone is wonderful unless they are English.

I am also quite a feminist and this unsettles him and he says I have man hating tenedencies - which is probably true.

I do sometimes dream of meeting a fellow comrade and we could run of into the suset together dreaming of renationalization and shared wealth!

In fact if I was single and was vetting men, perhaps using a dating agency I would put shared political ideals as high up on my desires list as so mnay of our rows are caused by our politica differences.

Theoretically, quite different. Practically, very similar.

He's a Champagne Marxist, would-be radical. I'm a free marketeer, small-c-conservative, still (sorry!), slightly a child of Thatcher.

In reality though, we both want private education for DD, even though we can't justify it philosophically. We're both very liberal. Both pro-underdog. Both politically engaged.

matched
he was a socialist in his youth but then he met me!