Love may be blind, but politics has X-ray vision.
That’s the supposed takeaway from Netflix’s dating show Love is Blind, whose eighth season ended this month with a jolt of politics: At climactic wedding ceremonies, two liberal women ditched their fiances on the grounds that their values didn’t match. “I’ve always wanted a partner to be on the same wavelength,” one woman said, tears dripping down her face toward her wedding gown. “And so today I can’t.”
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