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So how many of you out there have had a similar experience or experiences with friends, co-workers, and family over this election, and have you had to re-assess friendships and relationships because of it???

I know I have. Take care and God Bless all of my Free Republic friends.

1 posted on 08/25/2016 8:23:20 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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Obama took out any “friends”.

Heck, I have utter contempt for half of America.


2 posted on 08/25/2016 8:25:50 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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When my liberal friends called me a racist for opposing Obama they lost me. Some of them are no longer Obama lovers, but I lost all respect for them and refuse to interact with shallow minded numb skulls.


3 posted on 08/25/2016 8:27:17 AM PDT by Jumper
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Mark Levin.


4 posted on 08/25/2016 8:27:44 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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I don’t have any liberal friends.


5 posted on 08/25/2016 8:29:13 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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I haven’t lost friends, but it’s actually affected dating. I don’t bring up politics, but the girls seem to ask, and I have no problem telling them where I stand. Great way to weed out the nuts, but sometimes disappointing at the same time.

As an aside, I’ve noticed political content conspicuously missing from LinkedIn. I bet they’ve recognized political disagreement could be disastrous to the goal of their site, which is to build professional networks.


6 posted on 08/25/2016 8:30:14 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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None. Zero. Zilch.


7 posted on 08/25/2016 8:31:55 AM PDT by jokemoke
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None.

But some of them have lost me.


8 posted on 08/25/2016 8:32:57 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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Have You Lost Friends Over This Election?

If you have, then they weren't friends to begin with................

9 posted on 08/25/2016 8:34:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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Only here


10 posted on 08/25/2016 8:34:38 AM PDT by wardaddy (free republic is an aging demographic)
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Yep. Dumped a friend since 1968 who recently destroyed something of great personal value I had given her in the early 70s – because I am campaigning for Trump.


11 posted on 08/25/2016 8:34:49 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("They only smear who they fear." --Diamond and Silk)
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Nah, I make them "defriend" me and hopefully they disappear forever.

If Trump loses, there is no reason to stay in the United States. I'm looking at Spain. Tons and tons of American ex pats in select cities and villages and you can actually live on your social security there.

12 posted on 08/25/2016 8:35:33 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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My standard comment in the “real world”, when someone asks who I’m voting for is to say, “I’m buying more ammo.”

But in the real world, people know me. They know the whole person and not just my posts on an internet site. They get how I’m being both funny and serious and what I actually mean when I say that.


13 posted on 08/25/2016 8:38:26 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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I’ve lost respect for a lot of folks here over this election. I’m not going to say why, though.


14 posted on 08/25/2016 8:38:57 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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Yes, I have lost a friend. It baffles and saddens me. This friend understands Conservatism and what is at stake. I sincerely believe that there is a brainwashing effect from daily tuning in to some of the radio hosts.


15 posted on 08/25/2016 8:39:27 AM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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Had dinner with a couple of high school buddies last night. One, a judge, is so fed up with the way Trump has been treated by the media and the political system he’s considering voting for him as a protest. And he’s been an MSNBC watcher. He’s on top of the drip, drip of Hillary’s criminality and now finds MSNBC’s bias intolerable. The other was non-committal. I’ve ruled out Hillary a long time ago. May vote Trump just to piss a lot of people off. At the rate we’re going, Hillary may be tagged for jail by November, at least in the voters’ minds.


17 posted on 08/25/2016 8:39:55 AM PDT by Dilbert56
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“Liberal friends”

I have liberal acquaintances, but I snipped the cord with every liberal I once called ‘friend’, a long time ago.

I don’t discuss politics with liberal family members on Facebook anymore. Not worth the grief and hard feelings. Some relatives haven’t spoken to me since the 2008 election.


20 posted on 08/25/2016 8:41:16 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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I don’t allow liberals into my personal life - so no.


21 posted on 08/25/2016 8:41:25 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Poo poo the polls at Trump's peril.)
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Not at all. Those kind of friends fell away about twenty five years ago in the first Bush vs. Clinton election.


22 posted on 08/25/2016 8:42:32 AM PDT by Rockingham
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My general rule of thumb is that as soon as I find out that an acquaintance is a lib then I immediately dissociate myself from them because they are no longer ‘friends’. They became immediate enemies when they exposed their ignorance.

As far as the election goes, if HRC would miraculously ‘win’ then I had considered Costa Rica or Australia but both are now too socialistic. Then I thought about New Zealand but New Zealand, too, is a commonwealth of socialist England.

After all is said and done I shall have to find a place in this country waaaaaaaaay back in the woods where the mushrooms grow and hope that it is far enough away from the socialist stench.


23 posted on 08/25/2016 8:42:32 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
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I have debated, offered documentation and facts to those I have engaged and yet nothing seems to deter these people and on top of that I am called names and accused if all manner of things not true.

Now that you have some time freed up :), take all your energy & fight and get onto your local area paper/tv/radio station comment sections under articles (anonymously).
Bring your message to your town.
You'll get the same push-back in these comment sections but others are reading that never post...and will learn.

24 posted on 08/25/2016 8:42:33 AM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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