I’m asking this because many people seem to agree that cops tend to lean towards MAGA, and I wanted to know about firefighters.
I’m asking this because many people seem to agree that cops tend to lean towards MAGA, and I wanted to know about firefighters.
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I’m asking this because many people seem to agree that cops tend to lean towards MAGA, and I wanted to know about firefighters?
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Not in my experience, no.
In my experience they are just like cops despite their entire livelihood being funded by the tax payers.
Nope. Conservative.
I’ve seen no real strong line in this occupation. Same with EMS and general medicine.
The obvious lines, for me, tend to be income in these occupations rather than being a insert job.
But the big difference that is most obvious is the comparison between cops (basically a gang) and firefighters. That tends to be less political and more … well, a gang vs. a non-gang in terms of organizational structure and how they see themselves as ‘us vs them’
No. Less roids, but just as bigoted and self-important.
No idea, i don’t ask firefighters their political affiliation when I meet them
Not in my experience.
From a line of Firefighters. I’d say 60-40 split Conservative and that really depends on the candidate. 2024, the split was reversed.
They can be either. I would say that they tend to be more conservative than the average city goer, but less conservative than the average police officer. But if you’re curious, you could always burn your house down and give them a survey. Jkjk
Not particularly. A lot of fire stations just have Fox News playing all day. That said, I don’t think fire stations attract the exact same kind of conservatives that tend to enroll in police forces.
I’ve seen the FF Union align more with the AFL-CIO than the police unions. Which usually means they will move more left than those not following with them.
But unions are way less monolithic in their alignment than they used to be so… it’s really depends.
If you have a strong community ideology, you’ll likely have public sector employees that lean that way too. But no group is homogenous.
Maybe city firefighters on a fat salary with solid benefits.
But rural volunteer firefighters? Hell no. Just like any other rural first responder, they have an over-inflated ego and insane sense of self-importance. Naturally, those people gravitate more toward bigotry and simple, stupid solutions to complex, multifaceted problems.
In other words: your average MAGAt
Firefighters I met were nice, and I think they were liberals. But I live in California. So I don’t know.
Firefighters tend to be more classic conservatives but everyone respects Firefighters and EMTs, because they attract and hire professional people who have a duty to protect the people.
Municpality police officers tend to attract and hire many rookie cops who think they are tough, because they are police, when in reality, they are the lowest division of police, after the County Sherrif and State Trooper.
Easy way to tell for an occupation.
High education low income? Left
Low education high income? Right
Low education low income? Mixed
High education high income? Mixed
From the ones I’ve met, it’s a mixed bag, they often lean right but I know 1 who ran for office as a progressive with a progressive firefighter husband as well, they are some of the kindest most bad ass people I’ve met.
Potentially unrelated but much like cops and military they are prone to cheating though…at least the ones I’ve dated (in all 3 groups) uh, they more often than not turned out to be married, in a relationship, or cheated on me. lol.
All of the FD I know are conservative. Not necessarily MAGA, but conservative of some type.
Same with cops; most are not in fact MAGA, but are conservative (there’s a difference).
Small sample size, but the few firefighters I know personally are right wing conspiracy nut jobs.
I imagine this probably has more location variability than cops.
Hell no. Maybe the younger crowd but you’ll find it mostly leaning heavily conservative
Most, but not all, that I know are conservative. Especially the young ones.