I know I have. Take care and God Bless all of my Free Republic friends.
Yes, and those who haven't aren't doing their part to save AMERICA!
I ditched my FB account as well. People are out of touch with reality.
I have discussed this election less with friends and acquaintances than any in my memory. People are very polarized, but like me are mostly declining to talk about it. The only people who aren’t already onboard willing to discuss Trump rationally have been Sanders supporters, in my exposure.
Trump won my state, NC, handily, but very few signs. Hillary also won handily, with signs practically nonexistent outside of university settings. There were load of Sanders signs and bumper stickers in those same areas and even beyond into more reality-based environments.
I don’t talk politics on Facebook. I see that as a place for kid pictures and cute kitten videos
I’ve ‘demoted’ several FB Friends to Acquaintance and stopped following them. When I post I post to “Friends except Acquaintances”. Only way they can see my posts is to visit my page. If they do that, it’s their own d@mn fault.
Most of my extended family is pretty far left. Likewise, politics is generally not discussed. In fact, I recently attended a family event that was a memorial service for a deceased uncle who was one of the leading communists (for lack of a better word) in Western Colorado. Politics never came up.
On the other hand, most of the friends I know from my political activities are the very insiders I am campaigning against in my activities in support of 1) Donald Trump and 2) a real presidential primary. With respect to the topic of this thread, the latter is the most significant. At a recent public hearing on real presidential primaries, we spoke on opposite sides of the issue. This has been simmering for four years; and I think the bridges can probably be considered burned at this point. Though I only implied it very indirectly, my presentation at the public forum was my farewell speech to them.
My friends on Facebook have apocalyptic visions regarding Trump. It’s embarrassing and depressing to see the hyperbole expressed by Christians, comparing this election to Hitler in 1933, and comparing Trump voters to Germans who closed their eyes.
Aside from the excesses of emotion, people don’t seem to understand that Trump would face a Congress who hates him far more than it does Obama. If he were to go all apocalypse Congress would gleefully shut him down, in contrast to their treatment of Obama’s unlawful orders.
I’ve quit commenting and just occasionally go online to see the latest blather.
A Close friend of mine and I got into a screaming, raging, hissy fit. To a significant degree the fault was mine. This Election has been very caustic
I quit my job at a defense contractor last year because it had become untenable, left wing politics going from “we social engineer this far for preference in federal contracts” to “we have to be far left wing for the comfort of X groups, the rest of you go along to keep your jobs”. The constant “diversity minutes” in every meeting, company newsletters, and especially LBGT to the point of insanity was the last straw though I waited until we paid off the mortgage to quit. I should never have to sit through a presentation of “my husband left me for a man, support me, no, don’t sympathy, just validate him and tell me I’m good for supporting his decision”.
One woman publicly asked for advice of her husband wanting to cheat with men on the side but keep the marriage together due to four children under the age of ten. I said I could understand tolerating adultery no matter with whom for the sake of the marriage, but I could refer her to a good divorce attorney if she wanted. I was reported to HR, who said my answer was gender neutral so not homophobic but adultery was a judgmental term and my statement was unacceptable. I said the answer was in response to her public question - and if my answer was wrong, so was her bringing up the topic in public discussion. There were numerous other cases of this, LBGT paraded around, including sexual harassment by a mentally ill man in a dress of women. If I hadn’t been a woman with clearance, they’d have fired me sooner. Instead, upped the work load while demerits took away raise and then performance sharing bonus.
When I told them I was leaving, my boss wasn’t surprised. What surprised him was that I said it was a pay cut, not a pay increase, but this job wouldn’t involve their current demands for Sunday morning outage support, Thursday night maintenance windows, and working every other Friday a 12 hour shift (It was IT)
Where I am now doesn’t care if I listen to Michael Savage or Sargon of Akkad on low volume, as long as I can pause it to take customer calls for tech support.
And I have far more flexibility to work from home, which eliminated childcare this summer. That sort of thing offsets the pay cut. And the sanity of the environment allows me to avoid most of the political BS that would only be worse now.
I have had friendships shifted to “acquaintance” due to politics. Had to talk to my oldest about why we’re seeing certain children less for playdates, due to their parents being far left. And we’re inviting over our “tribe” much more often.
Connect more strongly with your tribe, inviting people who agree with you for dinner, barbecues, playdates. For my children, as long as there is a similar stream of socialization, WHO matters much less to them.
I am sure I have offended a few people on Facebook, but in part that was my intention...to get in their liberal faces a bit and confront them with the truth about their party and their nominee. I never call them stupid or foolish, rather I just try to call into question who they are supporting.
My left-wing friends and I have decided not to discuss politics. Just not worth it.
I do however discuss with probably the most radical of them. But we both agree at least we hear each other out and keep it civil. And we do have some good discussions
The others one just want to get mad and shout me out
Not yet but I’m working on it!-)
Go Trump Go!
I started Facebook and stuff when Obama was in. And I ended it about 8 months ago.
Facebook was full of people that I enjoyed talking to but it was, and is, a place for the enemy to congregate. And these social media places are run solely by the enemy.
I don’t need to tell you this, everyone here knows. But Facebook recreated friendships that had fizzled out because of moving and stuff. That was sad. Since I left I gave everyone a way to get me, call me, text me, whatever. And not a single soul does.
How can you be friends with anyone who supports Extremist and or radicals, marxist, fascism, BLM, any violent/destructive protest, the welfare state, dumbing down America, sissifying as many of our young males as possible?
Gay marriage, Big Government, 20 trillion in debt? How can you be friends with anyone who generally disrespects or has contempt for our Flag, our Constitution, Capitalism..our way of life?
Hi neighbor is see your not going to work today because you get a “crazy check” Well, not to worry i am killing myself so i can pay taxes and support your lazy ass. Well, enjoy smoking your marijuana all day or sniffing bath salts or whatever it is you do.
Keep blaming those rich republicans!
At best they are clueless or more likely passively complicit. Either way they are a drain on the system.
Generally I drop potential friends when I find out they are liberal. But I do have a few “friends” who allow me to continue our friendly relationship because I usually don’t argue or get into politics with them, knowing there is no point. Recently one of those few tried to embarrass me at a cocktail party by outing me. While they continued snickering and making fun of conservative views I simply thanked the host for the hospitality so all could hear and left without further comment or drama.
As far as liberal friends go, there was a time when I was polite to these people. Now, I totally ignore them and have nothing to do with their existence on this planet. By their actions, they are proving they hate this country, and I have an issue with that attitude.
I’ll bet it helped a lot of people to figure out who the traitors in their families were.
If I had any liberal friends I wouldn’t care if I lost them. I do have some liberal relatives and I don’t want to lose them. Except for that one in Kookiefornia and I would just as soon lose that one.
I figure that’s up to them. I’ve backed a couple of them off pretty hard and we’re still speaking. But after their Queen goes down in flames, that may no longer be the case. No loss.