Can you date someone with completely different political views—or has politics officially become one of the biggest dating dealbreakers in modern relationships? Should we be like this??

This week, Alyssa is joined by Charlie Goldensohn (@chez.chuck) for a funny, unfiltered conversation about what happens when dating, relationships, friendships, family, and politics collide. And no, this isn't a political debate. We're much more interested in what happens when the person you want to date, sleep with, befriend—or survive Thanksgiving with—sees the world completely differently than you do.

Can people on opposite ends of the political spectrum actually date? Should you end a friendship because someone votes differently? How do you deal with family members whose political opinions make you insane? And have we become so quick to block, unfollow, cancel, and cut people off that we've completely forgotten how to disagree?

Alyssa and Charlie get into:

• Dating someone with different political views and whether politics should be a relationship dealbreaker
• Whether people with opposite political beliefs can have a successful relationship
• When political differences are really differences in values, morals, lifestyle, and compatibility
• How and WHEN to bring up politics while dating
• What to do when your friends have different political views
• Whether it's ever worth ending a friendship over politics
• How to survive political differences within your family
• Why hearing opinions you disagree with might actually be a good thing
• Why we've become so trigger-happy about blocking, unfollowing, cutting people off, and cancel culture
• The opinions, jokes, social media behavior, and hot takes that can get you cancelled
• How to disagree with someone without immediately deciding they're a terrible person
• And a hilarious game of immediate dating red flags: what would make Alyssa and Charlie instantly swipe left?

From politics and dating to friendship breakups, family arguments, cancel culture, dating apps, red flags, political compatibility, and modern relationship advice, we're asking a much bigger question than "Who did you vote for?"

Do you actually need a partner who agrees with you—or do you need a partner who knows how to disagree with you?

Because maybe the ultimate dating green flag isn't having identical opinions. Maybe it's being able to argue your point, have discourse, hear someone else's, laugh about it, respect each other—and still want to go on a second date.

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