# If I'm looking for a therapist, is it OK to ask if they are a Trump supporter?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 19, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-im-looking-for-a-therapist-is-it-ok-to-ask-if-they-are-a-trump-supporter/928400 "2020-12-19T14:46:35Z")
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### Author: ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-im-looking-for-a-therapist-is-it-ok-to-ask-if-they-are-a-trump-supporter/928400/214 "2020-12-28T23:18:39Z")

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> [@octopus](#):
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> It’s due, in part, because of an irrational or evil demand for ideological purity that is coming mostly from the left.

As I’ve noted [elsewhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethical-to-screen-out-trump-supporters-applying-for-a-job/928467/219),

> [@Kimstu](#):
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> Denouncing malicious lies, incompetence, corruption, reality denial, delusion and bigotry does not constitute unfair political persecution or “intolerance” […]
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> Public discourse in a functioning democracy requires reasonable standards of factuality, transparency, honesty, fairness and critical thinking. We can’t just throw out those standards because we’re worried about hurting the feelings of supporters of Trumpism and other ideologies of malicious lies, incompetence, corruption, reality denial, delusion and bigotry.

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