I represent what most liberals hate. White, non-gay, married, Christian, male, retired military, with a job, and a great family)
There are some circles I don't discuss politics, I learned years ago, you can not explain facts to a liberal, they will not listen, nor will they understand.
So yes you can have liberal friends, I have some, but I keep my political opinion to myself, and discuss other things.
Last night I the opportunity to meet a future VA state delegate at a "meet and greet", I had a great time discussing politics with friends, it was very civil, although we didn't agree 100%, we were able to discuss differences with civility.
I could.....
But I won’t..
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Then there is this: Can Liberals have Conservative friends?
I lost my best old “Army Buddy” a week ago:
He is at the top of the GS pay scale without being a political appointee, and has been furloughed. He is worried about paying his mortgage, utilities and food.
He wanted to know my opinion about the ‘shutdown’. I told him that it should have been done a long time ago.
He wanted to know my opinion of increasing the debt ceiling.
I told him that it was too high already.
He isn’t talking to me anymore, despite the fact that I offered to send him enough money to see him through, and even a place at ‘the gulch’ if worse comes to worse.
I guess eating at the taxpayer trough is more important to many; even for pretty intelligent people, than 40 year old friendships and a ‘safe harbor’ when SHTF.
In the realm of personal relationships,the issue of moral character is of vital importance and significance because it is relevant to one's own survival. Emotions about others are a consequence of one's evaluation of another's moral character and values.If a person shares one's values and has a good moral character, that tends to cause a feeling of esteem and affection for that person that could result in friendship or love depending on how much intimacy one desires and how much value that person is to one's own life.
No. Having friends with severe mental illnesses is a drag. Being married to a woman with the same type of mental illness is just a recipe for misery. Just my opinion based upon ample experience.
A liberal as a friend.? This is a language to betray us. If I want the company of a head in sand liberal for entertainment I will dial the escort service and get more trust there. A liberal is a prostitute acting like they are not.
Not if you love your country. Libs are out to destroy the country. You can’t be friends with that.
No. I have no reason to waste time with such people.
When I was single I made it perfectly clear I wanted nothing to do with smokers, dopers, alcoholics or liberals.
Twenty years ago I would have said yes. It’s possible for liberals and conservatives to be friends...even spouses. But no more. The liberal agenda is so pervasive, intrusive and over powering that I don’t see how any red blooded patriot could consort in any way with liberals. I have a liberal brother and sister in law with whom I have virtually no contact because I view them as gleeful, willing parties to the destruction of this country. I’ve cut ties with them and told them they’re no longer welocome in my home. And I mean it.
My best friend’s a lib, an awful one. But I love the dude and the personal side of life outweighs the political. I know that’s not always the case
I saw someone at the grocery store yesterday (came within 2 feet) who I worked with years ago and is a rabid liberal.....I didn’t say a word and kept on walking.
My brother and my sister-in-law are libs. We try to avoid talking about politics, which is easy because they live in a lib city a hours and miles away. He’s very nice and could have a reasonable conversation, but she, like most liberals, is convinced that she knows what’s best for everybody else in the world, which means she could argue with a brick wall. I just avoid her.
I have some liberal neighbors who are the dearest, kindest, most generous family in the world. Their liberalism comes from their mainstream Protestant church and a naive view of the world. No trouble getting along with them at all. They’re horrified at our hunting/military/gunloving view of the world, but we just don’t talk about it. They hold their tongues when my son brings home a deer and butchers it in the garage (something that is NOT done in our neighborhood).
Snakeheads wife is a closet Democrat.
A phony.
I have liberal parents.. and some how.. I manage..
A liberal wife? life is not long enough to mess with such foolishness.
You can’t pick your family. You can pick your wife.
NOT NO BUT HELL NO.
I don't say "stupid" or a "moron," because those are fighting words. But "fool" works.
Some of the smartest, best educated and cleverest presidents have been the biggest failures, and some of the presidents people expected had the least smarts worked out pretty well.
So you can't really go wrong thinking any particular president's a "fool" one way or the other.
I suppose politicians may not all be "crooks," but the nature of their job makes them ambitious publicity hounds who'll do what they can to get money or votes. It's not personal and the ones with more perspective may even agree.
I won’t even pretend to like liberals.
I can’t stand Liberals and will not be a friend to any of the SOB’s!
No. When having small talk with liberals, they eventually thrown in some political talk that is anti-conservative. Then when I respond negatively, they accuse me of injecting politics into a discussion. Just because I don’t remain silent and take it. Happens every time. They start with nasty politics, then accuse a conservative of doing so. You can’t remain friends with them and retain your sanity.
At times when I was working (various offices, now retired), I had a framed picture up of President Bush and an American flag behind my desk. Libs in the office would accuse me of harrassment and of making it a hostile working environment, threatening to get me fired. I said it stays up as long as they have Che Guevara posters, and other pro-liberal posters up (all over the office). My jobs were in San Francisco, I’m a native San Franciscan in a formerly Republican city (was such until 1964), and all the complainers were transplants from New York and elsewhere. I could be friendly with them, but not friends.