Since this is proving to be a very interesting election year, I was just wondering how/if politics play a role in your relationship with your partner.

Do you & your partner have the same or similiar political views? If not, and if you are brave enough to discuss it, does the "heat" effect your sex life?

I wonder how many people may find themselves sleeping on the couch on election night!

When Mr. Lil and I first started off it was a mixed marriage. He belonged to the party his family had always belonged to. After years of hearing the party's platform, realizing that he did not actually believe in most of what they supported, and never actually voting for a candidate they offered neither locally or nationally, he switched. For my birthday he gave me his old voter'sreg card and showed me his new. I was really proud of him. It's hard to go against what your family has always done and decide you need to be faithful to your own views. *That* was a hot night of sex

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Sex & Politics do not make good bed fellows.......... And I feel we've sadly confirmed that here at Pixies in the past.


That said............. I have never been able to declare or register as a 'party' loyalist. I have long been VERY active civically but always refused to ally politically which carries the two edged sword. The individuals and issues always decided my vote.

MUCH more than you dislike hearing it, I am saddened to say I did not believe I could ever live long enough to be so disheartened in our system as I am today. I could not vote until I was 21 and NEVER missed doing so for 40 years. I now can not be part of a system I see as so corrupt and distant from the beliefs I held it to be rooted in. For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I pray it is not as irreversibly broken as I perceive it.

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Hey, I registered Republican, and vote Discordian. Ain't nobody matches my politics.

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Lilith, Kudos to your husband for standing true to his own beliefs. I think that the majority of people base their early beliefs on their parents and sometimes don't embrace their own until they are safely in their 30's.

PF- I agree politics & sex tend to exist best seprately. Like you, I am also disheartened by our political situation today.

I must say that I take George Carlin's view on it. I don't leave the house on election day unless I have to work. I haven't liked any of the people running for office on the national level since I've been able to vote, so I'm not even registered. It's my belief that the system that we have was well designed for the time that it was created, but with everything that has happened, the America of today is nowhere near what is was over 200 year's ago. I'm not saying we should change from democracy, I just think we need to step back and revamp the system to something a bit more modern. The other thing about it is most people seem to just vote for the incumbent regardless of the job they did, and subsequently nothing that's wrong with the government gets fixed. If you keep the same tired views in office, you can't expect a better government to emerge. Let us not forget the election that voted a dead person into the office over living people because no one had taken his name off the ballet.

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