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.
The left loved Trump until he decided to run for President.
I wonder if Hillary ever gave him his campaign donations back?
There were a lot more Federalists I'm sure.
I have been unfriended twice (so far). One an old Coworker I had know for over 20 Years and one of my old Vendors.
My crime was responding to their idiotic Liberal Friends. Not being mean, just correcting their fantasies point by point.
After that happened, I moderated my responses to a third old Coworker and the Posts of his Friends.
After about a Month, I rescinded my self imposed moderation and decided I would go full bore or just close up my Fakebook Shop.
Full bore it is. If you don’t give it like you get it, the forces of Evil have full control of the Narrative.
I could just quit Fakebook, but is an avenue to keep in touch with Friends and Family from years past. They all know what to expect from me. LOL
Spot on. Leftists practice their own version of taqiyya all the time, especially when they pretend to be open, tolerant, and your friend. They are none of the above.
There was plenty of hate expressed here on FR but I know what you mean. It was orders of magnitude less. One measure is the level of profanity on both sides. We cuss here on our side but again orders of magnitude less. What all this reveals is the totalitarian core of the left. If you read about life in the old Soviet Union you found that politics permeated everything in life to an extent completely foreign to us here. Our leftists want to recreate that politics is everything world that was the old Soviet Union.
Didn’t that same Thomas Jefferson carry on a feud with John Adams, whom had formerly been a very close friend, as a result of a contentious presidential campaign?
LOL I hope I remember that.
He didn’t really speak about politics, but I know why he doesn’t want to go to Chick-Fil-A. To be honest, I don’t want to do business with liberals if I can help it.
We MUST speak out truthfully against evil to warn others.
11. Ezekiel 3:18-19 If I say to the wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him—you don’t speak out to warn him about his wicked way in order to save his life—that wicked person will die for his iniquity. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood. But if you warn a wicked person and he does not turn from his wickedness or his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.
12. Ephesians 5:11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
My next door neighbors did that to us. Same crap. They had Hillary signs plastered all over the place and I had a Ted Cruz sign in my yard. When Trump won the nomination, they gloated how my guy got whipped by a game show host and how Hillary will destroy Trump. He might not even win Texas they gleefully mocked.
As the big day approached, we went to dinner a few times, talked about the kids, our pets, whether my neighbor was going to sell his gun collection now that Hillary was expected to win and implement the UN’s call for gun control. He just laughed and kept asking me why I would vote for a pu$$y grabber who went bankrupt 3 times? I kept telling him because at least he wasn’t a criminal who was married to a disbarred, impeached rapist. To which his wife would come back with “that’s irrelevant” and “Faux News” was lying.
Their party on election night was going to be the highlight of the year and all the lefty residents in my community made their way to my neighbors house to share in the glory of the first woman president. Getting my invitation so a house full of liberals could make fun of me, I replied, glad you don’t associate women with feminine or else that would already have been covered with Obama.
Needless to say, the next morning I didn’t call them to gloat. Neither my wife nor I had any hatred towards them because they preferred a crook to a businessman. Or that we now had the executive, legislative and were about to take the judiciary to go along with all the governorships and local legislators Republicans already had. Nope, we called them to see if they wanted to go out to dinner to discuss the kids, our pets, travel coming up.
It has now been 8 months. We sent them invitations to go out to dinner, a movie, whatever at least 5 times. Each time was a cold response of “we’re busy.” Where at least we would talk for a bit in the street about how we will get together next time, now every time I go outside and my neighbor is out there, instead of a fist bump and a “whatcha up to?” he goes into the garage and closes the door.
And that in a nutshell describes why liberalism is a mental disorder.
“He didn’t really speak about politics, but I know why he doesn’t want to go to Chick-Fil-A. To be honest, I don’t want to do business with liberals if I can help it”
Every time you do business with a liberal, extend kindness, or support them in any way, their own funds go toward something else that you would probably detest. Don’t fall for it.
Sorry to hear that. Adult children just don’t know sometimes, what is precious in life.
My dear, former friend attacked me verbally the day after the election.
We tried to patch our relationship after a month of silence on both our parts, but the damage is done.
What I have never understood are people who use Facebook and spend a significant amount of time on their computers each day reading and posting messages on the Facebook pages of others, but who say they have no time to email their family and friends who don’t use Facebook (much less calling those people on the phone). Hello? If you are sitting at your computer posting messages on Facebook pages, you have got time to email a non-Facebook using friend or relative while sitting at that same computer.
I had a friend from childhood who loved him some Bedrock Obummer. He didn't like that I would disdainful speak of Obummer. Haven't talked to him in years.
Only down side is I can't watch his face go purple when I hate on Bummer!
Other than that, no big loss.
There’s not enough plaster in Paris to repair the cracks made. Once weakened, best forgotten.
It made me smile, too. :-)
“Since the election” are the key words. It shows that it’s not your opinions so much as the fact that your side won. Big babies who can’t stand to lose.
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