Have you ever been mistaken for the opposing ideology?

[Dave from Michigan]

Yes someone i just met once thought I was a Kerry supporter, Although I'm not quite sure why.

[nini2287]

We did an informal abortion poll in government class one day and when I raised my hand for pro-life someone asked me "Aren't you, like, really liberal?"  Also, the other day I said I was in favor of faith-based initiatives and one of my friends whose already criticized me for being a Lieberman fan said  "Why don't you just go ahead and call yourself a Republican?"

[dazzleman]

oh, only all the time!  that's how often.  if you show up at a Sierra Club meeting everyone assumes you hate bush.  If you take MoJo everybody assumes you hate bush.  If you have a Save the Whales T-shirt on while you're out cleaning your kayak, everybody assumes you hate bush.  If you tell 'em, out in Flyover Country, that you just moved in from California, everybody assumes you hate bush.  I guess I fulfill a large number of flyover country's stereotypes about the typical bush-basher.  I get taken for anti-bush before I even open my mouth.  and once I open my big mouth, I seem to only further convince folks that I hate bush.  All this without ever mentioning bush by name or even talking politics in general.  wtf??!

It's very goddamned frustrating, I can tell you.  Good question, though.

It's called profiling.  You just don't fit in the box, man.  That's good.  Too many people conform to political stereotypes down the line.  It's always great to meet somebody who doesn't.

[PBrunsel]

I was once mistakened for a Hansel and Gretel SOB, but the man who called me that soon said he was deeply sorry.

(My one crack at Mr. Naso )

[Nym90]

Hmm, not that I can recall.

[PADem]

It's kinda hard for me, given that I'm more conservative than a good 15-20% of the Republicans on the board and probably more than 95% of the Democrats.


Have I been mistaken for a hard-core liberal though... my highly anti-gun stance doesn't exactly score me points with conservatives.

[TeePee4Prez]

Yes defintiely.  I was actually called a "racist Repuke" on DU for so much as calling for Affirmative Action reform.  There are also prominent politicos that actually said glancing at me they think I'm a Republican.  My younger brother goes as far as to call me a "very liberal Republican" because I think economic issues are important, favor free trade (taboo even to my Republican father) to a degree, and follow the Dow and NASDAQ.  Then again he's a history teacher who actually thinks Marx had some good ideas, but interestingly pro-life.

[Inverted Things]

I'm a Green Party member, but my girlfriend's parents tell me I'd fit better in the Republican Party (they're Democrats).

The reason they think I should be a republican is because I'm not a humanist by any stretch of the imagination. I am rather vocally against sending food & supplies to 3rd world countries. Both of them have government jobs, so they think government can solve any problem, whereas I believe that if government is the answer then it must have been a stupid question.

[bullmoose88]

No one has ever called me a populist...but ahem here I get called a democrat all of the time (which isn't an ideology of course.)

[MaC]

all the time, whenever I say I oppose the war, conservatives think I'm a liberal.

whenever I say I think people should have their own money to spend and we should get rid of government safety nets, liberals think I'm conservative.

I really don't care, as soon as I say I'm libertarian, I usually get the brush off, like my opinion doesn't count.