The little over half that are estranged that want to reconcile should be better defined. I would not be surprised that most of that group are conservatives as it is the left that seems to be much more likely to cut someone off that is conservative than vice versa. One of my kids and spouse went woke and substantially cut both us and the spouses parents off due to politics. We all still love them and want good relations. I have seen this a lot. It’s the left that has become totally intolerant of anyone not accepting amp professing their views.
As one of my friends has, it has become a religion to them. It truly is their religion.
Make no mistake about it whatsoever, wokism is a satanic ideology.
Liberals have always accused social conservatives of bringing religion into politics, but liberals have done something far worse, and far more radical: They have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy.
The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa... Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic...for them, politics is the means to secular salvation...political failure is not just a setback on the road to a more stable society—it is a blow to their very worldview. Opposition to their program is not just wrong-headed, but evil.
My friends in high school and I were close up until my ex and I split. He got them in the, “divorce”, and they stuck with him. Once I started leaning right (I’m a Libertarian, by the way), they dropped me.
Haven’t spent real time with them in years.
They’re almost all borderline commies.