Posted on 06/16/2017 10:07:51 AM PDT by V K Lee
Dear X,
You and I had a sweet friendship: we raised children and discussed husbands together; we traded perennials and casseroles in times of need; we visited one another in funeral homes, hospitals and churches; we met one another’s families; we babysat and cleaned and laughed and cried together. I was the reason you homeschooled; you were the reason my dad got proper health assistance when he needed it.
You unfriended me. When you unfriended me from Facebook, I cared not. But you also unfriended me from your life. That hurt deeply and it still does. Even though I never supported him until it came time to vote, you unfriended me because I spoke in Donald Trump’s defense one too many times―while you campaigned relentlessly for HRC and insisted she was the hope of the future. That was it, nothing more. We never even exchanged volleys of words or ideas, until it was time for you to tell me why I was gone.
Why am I writing this so many months after the event itself? I will not even send this to you. You will probably never see it. But I feel it necessary to put the words on paper in light of yesterday’s shooting at the baseball field.
You say you support the Democratic Party. You support their ideals and politics. You are a respected woman in the community—a woman with elite degrees that few attain, a wife of a successful man. And yet you support a party of fools. The party you support is associated with pink vagina hats; congressmen flipping the bird toward our president while leading chants of “F*** Trump!”; women demonstrating naked to make some sort of mysterious point; lies spewed constantly and regurgitated ad nauseum; a candidate who lied and cheated and stole and violated the laws of our hallowed land; a comedienne holding a faux severed, bloody head of our sitting president; and, today, a marksman searching out members of the opposite party and successfully gaining purchase. Your party instigates hatred and violence and judgment.
What does this have to do with you, you ask? You would never do any of those things, so why am I so angry and tying these malevolent acts to you? Because you, my old friend, are one and the same. It all begins personally, it all begins at home.
If you cannot even abide a difference with an old, loved friend, you are fomenting the very intolerance that your party seethes over. You are raising children to be as short-sighted and critical as you, who will not be able to think critically to discover the truth for themselves. You are insulating yourself from differences that might expand your worldview, preferring instead your insular existence built on half-truths.
That is the reason for this letter. Truth must reside within us, as must respect for our fellow man. Without those, we are lost, and lost forever. It is only when we can shake hands across the proverbial aisle with open eyes and a care for one another that supersedes differences that true change can be evinced.
May God bless us all.
She was never truly a friend, just an acquaintance.
Poor guy...
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a woman with elite degrees that few attain, a wife of a successful man
Send the letter to the ex-friend.
There is something terribly off balance in the character of a person who is willing to ignore the lawless behavior of the Clintons over so many years, yet will vociferously denounce someone who simply wants to make America equal for all.
The only exception in the article is the term “marksman,” in referring to the psycho who tried to assassinate those republican representatives. He was no marksman.
It's a lot like my elderly aunt who died a few years ago.Went to Mass every day and claimed to be a devout Christian but was a staunch democrat.I once asked her how she could support a Party that despises everything she claims to believe in.Her response? "They give me my Social Security".
Amazing.
How do we explain, then, a son who has not talked to me since the election and put out on Facebook that his parents are racist, bigoted, homophobes?
I have tried to contact him, but he won’t answer me. I am heartbroken.
You did not lose a friend. A real friend values friendship over partisanship.
My sister in laws spews vile words and deepseated anger whenever Trump comes up. She hates KellyAnne Conway with a deep passion. She is a person who rarely uses curse words but lets them drop with a wreched contorted face of anger when speaking about anyone in the Trump administration.
I do not engage her in “debate”. I am not young nor naive. I have far too much experience with the brainwashed to ever consider there would be any fruit to bare from such a thing.
These people have been told that they have enemies. They have been programmed to believe that they are an existential threat to their lives and their well-being. Their resentment has been well crafted.
And by who?
Some demonic cult leader?
No... from mainstream “news” sources.
Pundits and and peddlars of hate, masked as journalists.
They are what we call the Main Stream Media. They foment hatred and division. They know their craft and they work their tradecraft on the subconscious minds of insecure people like any cult would. They are well trained (most of the time) never to actually overtly promote violence, but they straddle the line at times.
This is the reality we live in.
The demos even boo God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG6qgSfaARE
I don’t want evil friends like that.
That's is what bothers me about half of America and now they want to kill us. What the heck is that all about?
I left Facebook and everyone - good and bad - no longer talk to me.
If I make the effort to call out and say “Hi” that’s about all there is to it.
And the only people who pick up when I call ? My vet friends.
I’ve paid for people’s funerals, weddings, bills. Helped out when they needed it in every way. On facebook, they mostly told me directly how my comments (Political and not) brightened their day and they couldn’t imagine life without me.
These were people who I saw almost daily too. And they were my political allies. Not even politically motivated.
Put simply, I’ve learned that if you’re not on social media, you are a modern hermit.
But I think I’m going to call my vet friends now though. Thanks for reminding me !
The loss or “cancellation” of millions of friendships...or if they were not friendships...acquaintances...is I think one of the most dismal residues of the 0bama era. It’s happened to every single one of us. No, they may not have been “best friends”...in truth, we have only 1 or 2 of them for 10 acquaintances. But cooperation and company has been thrown out for righteous indignation over an externally-imposed set of very questionable and in some cases phenomenally destructive mores.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
Wonder why he hasn’t hung himself yet?
Good point; she was never really a friend and ths moment in history has revealed her true character.
It’s a loss, but your are better off not associating with such unbalanced people.
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