‘Sex and the City’ star Sarah Jessica Parker reveals why she does not post about politics on social media, hits back at her Conservative haters

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker has said that she tries to avoid political conversations on social media, arguing that there are better ways to express thoughts on important matters. While appearing on the Monday episode of Nicolle Wallace’s The Best People podcast, the Sex and the City actress defended her decision not to talk about politics on social media, asserting that other major elections took place before apps like Instagram existed and FDR was elected without social media in 1932.

Parker further elaborated that she tries to avoid political conversations on social media, as she is not interested in quick little snippets when it comes to dealing with conflict or even elections. During the podcast, she also clapped back at her conservative haters who want her to “shut up and act.”

“I often don’t talk on social media because I don’t think it’s a place that’s deserving of any real complicated conversation. I’m not interested in quick little snippets when it’s dealing with conflict or even elections sometimes,” Parker said. “I was so thoughtful about how I wanted to talk about the election because I think it turns into a distraction from the campaign. It turns into fodder. It’s misunderstood. You have no control over it,” The actress said that there are “so many ways to work toward a more civil society.”


“Many things happened, right and left, Republicans and Democrats for many, many, many, many years—many generations were elected without someone having to say something on Instagram,” Parker further stated.

The And Just Like That star called out “people on the other side” for trying to silence her left-leaning political opinions. She has often spoken vocally about her opposition to US President Donald Trump’s administration and its policies.

In October 2024, ahead of the US presidential elections, Parker shared a photo of herself placing a Harris-Walz campaign sign on her New York City window with a list of all the reasons she was “voting for Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz.” “They seem to want everyone who disagrees to shut up,” she said.

“It’s the weirdest thing—but not their side. It’s so off-kilter, like who can talk and who can’t? Who’s told to shut up and who isn’t? I’m just a citizen,” the actress added. Parker said that people have urged her to “be vocal” as a public figure, though she has had to find her way to be “comfortable being vocal.”

“I’m not going to talk about stuff that I don’t feel educated on. I’m not going to jump in on really complex areas that I feel are deserving of far more thought, consideration, and nuance, which I know no one’s interested in,” she said. “And I just feel like I want to be helpful. I don’t want to hurt something that matters to me.”