Thursday, 17 April 2025

Netflix’s ‘Love is Blind’ Gets Political, Villainizes Conservatives in Latest Season

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Netflix’s Love is Blind has been a hit for eight seasons, but Season 8 took a sharp turn into politics, a stark contrast to its past. Couples debated George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, abortion, gay marriage, and Christianity’s stance on LGBTQ issues. It’s hard not to wonder if producers pushed these talks, especially since conservatives consistently ended up as the villains. Viewers wondered the same:

The show’s “social experiment” has singles bond through a wall, get engaged blind, and decide at the altar weeks later to marry or part. Politics crashed the party early.  In Episode 3, Molly and Dave cast liberals as loving and conservatives as hypocritical, and Dave strongly pushed a pro-abortion view using the less than one percent of cases to justify the other 99:

Dave: What about religious, political beliefs?

Molly: Growing up, my parents were never the same political party. I don't think I need to agree 100% on every single thing.

Dave: I totally agree.

Molly: Amazing.

Dave: I totally agree. We all have different backgrounds. We all learn different things. And to say that one certain belief is so wrong compared to what you think is dumb. Like, Republican side, I agree with I want less taxes.

Molly: For sure.

Dave: And less government in my life. But then on the liberal side, it's like liberals have probably better hearts. Like, they want more, you know, love throughout the country and world.

Molly: I fully agree.

Dave: Like, the abortion stuff. Like, Republicans for some reason are just so anti-abortion. It's like….

Molly: But they want less government in their life. So that is...Yeah.

Dave: Yeah. That's hypocritical. And then also, what if someone's raped and they get pregnant? What if there is a birth defect?

Molly: There's so many situations.

Dave: Or the mother's life is in jeopardy. And there's like, you know...It's just such a tricky situation. It shouldn't be so, like, left or right.

Molly: Black and white. Yeah, yeah.

Dave: But that's politics. That's why it sucks.

Molly: For sure.

Dave: And I think that's a huge, like, issue in our society now, is like... They even add it into, like, dating apps. Like, "What's your political status?"

Molly: Yeah.

Dave: And it's like, why does that matter? Because we have different political views, we can't love each other?

Molly: Right.

Dave: I'm like that with my friends too. We don't all agree. We're still friends.

Molly: Yeah.

Dave: I feel like a lot of our generation would agree on that.

Molly: Yeah.

I don’t know, Dave. I’m not seeing any harmony from the left. They’re so angry, hateful, and close-minded that it’s almost become a pathology.

He’s clueless why conservatives oppose abortion (Hint: we value life). And exceptions exist for the circumstances he mentioned, but babies aren’t to blame for rape and aren’t guilty of their father’s sins.  

And birth defects don’t diminish a child’s worth. It’s a slippery slope towards the eugenics Nazis practiced when we start devaluing life based on imperfections. Doctors often misjudge with such predictions, and abortion is never medically necessary to save the mother’s life, as many doctors have testified.

Sara and Ben tackled politics, too. Sara, politicized by Trump and Floyd’s death, pressed Ben on Black Lives Matter. He dodged, asking if she’d marry someone with differing views. She said yes, then played the “Basic Human Rights” card, implying conservatives lack compassion. They got engaged anyway.

Another engaged couple clashed post-wall. Virginia, a Democrat, pushed abortion rights, stunned it’s being debated again. She then asks her fiancé, Devin, for his opinion:

Devin: I kind of go back and forth, and I'm not really... I feel like women have...it's their bodies and what they want to do with their bodies, but I also think the man and the woman that the situation is happening, if she's pregnant and they're deciding what to do with it, it should be both of them should decide.

Virginia: You mean he should be able to say his opinion.

Devin: Yeah, his opinion on it. Do you think that or no?

Virginia: Obviously, that's the, like...I think, ethical and moral thing to do is to communicate with your partner about the possible life. But I think that regardless, women should have the choice to do what they want with their bodies.

Devin: Mm-hmm.

Virginia: So, we're in alignment on that?

Devin: Yeah.

Virginia: So, we're gonna vote the same when we go to the polls or different? What do we take from that?

Devin: If we voted differently, what would that mean to you? You wouldn't be okay with that?

Virginia: I'd be okay with it. We should talk about it more.

Devin: Right.

Virginia: I think some of them are just really big topics, you know? Like, I think it would be kind of alarming if you were just way on the other end of the spectrum.

Devin: Yeah, I agree with that too. But it would depend on the candidates for me.

Virginia: But usually when they're a part of a certain party, it's because of those core things. What about your family? How do they vote?

Devin: Typically, they vote conservative because they are on the side of what their teachings are for their religion.

Virginia: That's interesting. My family does not vote that way.

Devin: Okay.

Virginia: But they're black, so I feel like a lot of black people... There's not a lot of Black Republicans. I don't know.

Devin: My dad's Black, so...

Virginia: No, I'm not talking about your dad. I'm just saying, in general.

Yes, Virginia, there are black Republicans. And you are talking about his dad. How magnanimous of her to allow fathers to have an opinion on whether their baby should be killed.

And note to Virginia: it’s not just the mother’s body involved in abortion. It’s the baby’s body that’s butchered and removed.

Sara and Ben meet with her lesbian sister and her sister’s partner Kelsie at a bar where Ben is shamed by Kelsie for being in a “different privilege bucket”:

Sara: But we have discussed, if I don't like the service, if it's something that actually disagrees with my views... If we had a child that's LGBT and the church is acceptance of only man and woman marriage...

Kelsie: Can we pause for a second? I hate the word "acceptance" because it's like there's something wrong with us that you have to accept. I quite frankly don't give a f*ck if other people accept me, because I have to accept you every G*ddamn day, right?

Ben: I love that.

Kelsie: I'm sorry, but I'm not faulting you.

Sara: What word should I use then?

Kelsie: No, not you, but I hate that churches use, "We accept everybody." Yeah, that's God's word. He made me in His image. So...

Ben: That's amazing. I love that.

Sara: What's the word? I'm sorry

Kelsie: You were saying the right thing. I'm not criticizing you.

Sara: Yeah.

Ben: That's a good point.

Sara: That was something we covered. And those are the hypothetical things that we discussed, is LGBT children. Like what if we did? We have had a lot of discussions, controversial discussions.

Ben: Yeah.

Sara: We've talked a lot about values.

Ben: You said something honestly pretty on par with how I am, where you're conservative financially, but then liberal socially.

Kelsie: You consider yourself fiscally conservative and socially liberal?

Sara: Yeah.

Kelsie: Okay, and that's how you align?

Ben: Yeah, that's literally word-for-word how I explain how I am to people.

Kelsie: There are things that women experience that men do not in this world and in this country. How you view and how you vote matters. There are things we have to consider that you don't.

Ben: Yeah.

Kelsie: So, I'm not coming for you. But there's people fiscally conservative and socially liberal that probably vote differently than you. And that impacts your rights. I think you guys need to have serious conversations about politics because he's in a different privilege bucket than you're in.

Sara: We talked so deeply about just who we are, and everything about our past and what we like, what we are interested in.

Kelsie: Yeah.

Sara: In everything.

Politics decided fates at the altar. Sara dumped Ben (despite calling him “perfect”) over his church’s anti-LGBTQ stance and apathy toward her causes, including “the vaccine.” One viewer congratulated Ben on X for dodging a bullet:

At the reunion, Virginia flaunted her liberal beliefs while Devin was afraid to state his publicly:

Virginia: I was still very conflicted at that moment. I felt like I got there emotionally with Devin, it’s very apparent as we watched it back, but we just weren’t in alignment on some very important things.

Vanessa: Like what important things, Virginia?

Virginia: Devin told me a lot about his core values, something he did not want to talk about on camera. I still to this day don’t feel really comfortable telling you Devin’s views but I will be really clear about mine. I 100% support the LGBTQ community. I also believe women should have the decision to choose whether they want to have an abortion or not. I also believe different religions should be valued. That is our different ways of communicating to God, like different languages. And these were really important things to me. We saw my diverse group of people come to my wedding. I have Muslim family members. And this was an important part of this decision. We got there emotionally. But, ultimately, aligning our lives together, was a big decision.

Vanessa: Yeah.

Devin: For me, I can look past certain things and I think you can be together and have a relationship and not completely agree on everything. And, I think a big thing with me as a Christian is to love everyone, and regardless of how I feel about something, I think you can be together and have a relationship and don’t see the same eye to eye as she might have.

So once again, it was the conservative who was open-minded enough to love his partner despite their differences- a tolerance she couldn’t muster.

Does anyone want to tell Virginia what Muslims think of LGBTQ people? And what do they do to them in Muslim countries? She wants respect for their faith, but won’t respect Devin’s. Hypocritical much? Another viewer on X felt Devin dodged a bullet like Ben and that he should be proud of his conservative, Christian values:

As for Ben, he had to announce at the reunion he’s “not proud” of his “privilege.” How much more can these conservative, Christian men be demoralized, shamed and humiliated in the name of acceptance, love and tolerance?

Love may be blind, but it’s obviously not tolerant or kind if you’re with a liberal. 


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