I did. Quite a few actually.
Mostly non-sexual and not very romantic, but that's something I have discussed with a few friends a few time. You see, when I was discharged from the USMC I took contract jobs with DOD and you could say I was the polar opposite of what liberals were brain washed to believe. I was recruited by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration) and NSAR (National Search and Rescue) to co-author a manual and curriculum for instruction for wilderness/disaster survival instructors at both Federal and State levels and because of that connection I shared time and rooms with other teachers in various collage campuses in Nevada and California. In doing that, I met and got to know a lot of different teachers from around central Cal and also Reno, Carson City and Las Vegas Nevada.
So I was and I guess I still am about as "right wing" as you can get. I had those core values then and I still do, and in my 30s I very much looked the part too. As one of them said "He looks like the poster child for a Marine Corp recruiting ad.
Liberalism was not as rabid in California then, but it was absolutely the "enlightened way to think" and keeping a job in "education" without parroting the lines was very difficult . So nearly all the teachers were outspoken leftists even if they would trey to call themselves something else. (Progressive was the label they liked the most)

And yet, the females seems to like to be in my company quite a lot and all of them I ever "dated" asked me to come over, got to lunch or dinner, spend time and "get to know me".
It was pleasant, but kind of weird. Because we had NO common ground and because nearly all of them had the same life story (grade-school to collage to grad-school to teaching) the topics always went to my history, and that led to as discussion of core beliefs and the reasons why. I could see it coming in every case. They would start by asking me if I could see things from their view point and I would say I can try, but to do so they must return the favor. So when I would talk about my history from high-school to time in the USMC and time as a military consultant, they would recoil and that would then lead to a discussion of older sections of history, which they were totally unaware of except for one gal who taught history.
She thought she did anyway, and I came over to her home on out 3rd "date' with some books about the very subjects she was teaching her students and had her go through the parts that contradicted her view point about what she thought was history.
Her and I never got romantic, but I will give her credit. She took those books and after about 3 months she had a new and much better understanding, but what I consider my great "victory' with her is the fact that she came to understand the ones that taught her were totally unaware of real history at best, and more likely were just liars.

We stayed in touch for about 20 years and I even introduced her to an old friend of mine who was a crew chief on helicopters from the days I was a Marine (He was Army, and in those days the Army did a lot of our insertions/extractions for us) They got married later. She is not a lib-tard at all anymore.

But the focus here was the fact that in those days they very things the "progressives" were taught to hate was what I was, and yet the women, most of them 5-15 years older than I was at the time were always around me and trying to spend time with me. It makes me wonder if something in the back of their minds wanted to know what I had to say, even though they were taught to hate it. It all stopped when I met a woman who was young and very good looking but was only an aid for one of the professors and a substitute teacher for a local high-school. She became my 1st wife. So when I met her I stopped "dating" the others (if you could even call it dating)

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