I have an 80 year old neighbor that I help out. She’s as loony a liberal as there is. Watches MSNBC all day long. I told her right from the get go....do not try to talk politics with me. It will just make us hate each other. She has totally abided by my request and when I walk into her house she immediately turns the TV off.
She’s the only lib that I even have any contact with. Other than being a lost liberal she’s a great person.
My best friend died early last year. She had been like a mother to me for over four decades. We had always agreed to disagree on politics with no problem at all - could even discuss it now and then. But when Obama came along, that changed significantly; it was really not possible to talk politics at all.
She was quite elderly then, so I chalked it up to age. She too was a wonderful person, apart from her politics, from whom I learned a lot about personal character; and I miss her.
Something I recall about my friend - we were once driving through an area that had become almost entirely Hispanic due to immigration, most of it illegal. This was a neighborhood she had known all of her life as a clean, quiet middle-class suburb.
She saw all the low-income Hispanic people walking together or loitering in the streets, and said in shock, “It looks like we’re in a third-world country!”
She showed no realization of the apparent disconnect between her visceral reaction to what she saw and her own political positions.