If your interaction involves only the non-political business at hand, yes. But those scenarios are increasingly few and far between, thanks to government inroads into every corner of our lives.
I probably face this dilemma more than anyone else on here. 99 % of my coworkers are rabid and outspoken Obama supporters. Political discussions devolve into how Democrats are brilliant and are working on ingenuous plans to save the economy and how Obama is so eloquent and Michelle Obama is so eloquent and inspirational and fashionable and intellectual and so awe inspiring. And how we need much more gov’t in all areas of our lives and anyone who disagrees must be a white male with too much privilege who has never had any real adversity in their lives or experienced how the other half lives. And if there is a major national disaster, no worries at all because Obama and the Democrats will be political superheroes who can rescue us all.
Yeah, that is the cliffnotes of what political discussions where I work turn into.
I cannot think of any liberals that I could be friends with. Most of the liberals that I have met have a mean streak in them. When I ask them a question about economics and they cannot answer the question, they call me an a**hole. I have liberal relatives and co-workers, but I am stuck with them.
No, it’s not possible. Such a definitive statement might be questioned by some. However, I live in No. California and know people who are liberal. As much as I try to have a friendly conversation their reactions are often hostel. Couple that w/the fact that I’m an admitted Christian and the insults fly out of their mouths. This has become especially noticeable since Barry Obama took office.
I hope so because most women are liberals. It’s primordial instinct. It’s liberal men who have some ‘splainin to do.
My wife was a liberal but maturity cured her. Eventually, most of us evolve.
I have lots of leftist acquaintances. The deal is that politics makes everyone uncomfortable when it slips out, and they quickly want to move on.
And many of them don’t know I’m a conservative, so they let loose some stuff they would not ever want known to their other buds.
Seriously some of these people are more right-leaning than Reagan. Too bad they dont vote like that.
I haven’t got liberal friends but I’ve got plenty of liberal family members.
I use my time with them for teaching.
At a very superficial level.
I was at a social event recently.
Two people randomly confronted me with liberal BS about Ted Cruz. I was really nice, laughing about him, and even belittling him a bit as a grandstander just to be nice.
They would accept nothing less than complete hatred of Cruz and huffed off.
Liberals hate conservatives. It’s part of their make up.
You can be cordial with progressives if they can shut up
That is about it
And they can’t really keep shut
They are saving the world from all the isms after all
And marrying one?
Not if you are genuine....its like marrying outside yer faith
True believer wouldn’t dream of it
Spend the weekend together and remember you are responsible where you lay seed....you really want to deal with all that with a shrew progressive fembot?
Conservative and libertarian chicks are hotter and more feminine
Take it from one who has lived it all
A Conservative can have children turned liberal. They will sometimes try murder.
Liberals are not even in our species group.
No, never!
I’m actually struggling with this right now. I live were the majority of people are crazy libs, so I have always had acquantances but not friends. I was fine with that. Then I started walking my dogs with a woman up the street and her dog. We had become friends and did not talk politics. I knew she was a lib and she knew I was a conservative.
Unfortunately, in the last week she has become insulting against Ted Cruz, the Tea Party and Conservatives in general. I have fought back. Last night was just too much for me when she started whining about how the republicans were going to make us default, along with the usual lib talking points.
I now wish I had stuck to my no lib friends rule. Today I have walked my dogs alone and gone up the hill away from her home so she will not see me. She has also not come by so maybe she has decided we shouldn’t be friends either. I am actually okay with this.
I believe I was right to beging with, you can be “friendly” with libs but you can’t be true friends. Libs are just to exhausting to my mental health.
My husband was a liberal, Clinton supporter when we married. That changed and now he is a wonderful, conservative man. I joke that I turned him to the dark side. All he really needed was another point of view, one he had never gotten his entire life.
I have many liberal friends and we never talk about politics....
you’re trying to mix oil and water.
If you want to know what being married to a leftist woman would be like, imagine being locked in a small room with Pelosi.