I can relate to your comment entirely. What is always amazing to me is when I have that occasional discussion with someone outside my normal circle who has a serious case of TDS. This happened to me recently with a fellow who was raging about POTUS Trump and seemed to be totally mystified how he ever got into power. I said surely you know someone who voted for him... after all, he got enough votes to be the President. The fellow responded that he didn't know barely anyone who voted for Trump. I suggested that he needed to perhaps think about enlarging the circle of folks he talks to a tad to include some perhaps have a slightly different view. I think that stats bear out the notion that conservatives are far more accommodating of views that conflict with their own than liberals... and it's not even close.
“The fellow responded that he didn’t know barely anyone who voted for Trump. “
That is nearly impossible with today’s social media. I for one didn’t realize how many old friends were now total liberal moonbats until facebook arrived. From my observation the biggest opinionated liberal moonbats on facebook were all hetero-sexual men. Followed by a distant second on the moonbat scale are liberal single never married women. The gay and lesbians I knew on facebook were barely politically opinionated. I have one or two conservative facebook friends that are opinionated. About 2 weeks after the election I purged all the total nutcases. They were all childhood friends that I haven’t met in person in decades.