Posted on 01/09/2021 5:36:43 PM PST by servo1969
In 2016, when Trump took office, I lost two friends. One was a NeverTrumper who decided that his conservative values mattered less than his personal distaste for Trump, so he voted for Hillary. Another, to his credit, was at least a hardcore lefty. I didn't drop either of them. Both felt that they could no longer have any social dealings with someone who supported a bantam rooster of a man who nevertheless believed in traditional American values and never strayed from the Constitution.
There was one leftist, however, with whom I did stay friends for the past four years -- although, admittedly, my relocating meant that our communications were substantially diminished. We raised our kids together, hung out together, shared sorrows and joys together, and I certainly considered her one of my closest and most important friends. I knew she was a leftist; she knew I was a conservative, but we kept politics out of it.
That is, until Wednesday evening when, completely out of the blue, I received a text from her: "I hold you personally responsible for what happened in Washington because you've been feeding people the fairytale about the election."
The text was so out-of-the-blue, especially from a person whose self-image is defined entirely by seeing herself as "nice," that I asked if it was a hack. No, it wasn't. I asked her, therefore, never to contact me again.
Did I overreact? I don't think so. It would have been one thing if she had tweeted that she was sad about events and worried that people talking about election fraud were what led to it. Or if she had asked me a question about events. But to hold me "personally responsible" -- well, that was different. A friend of mine understood. It was, she said, as if a good Christian friend suddenly turns to you, out of the blue, and calls you a "dirty k**e." Some things are so vicious and extreme that there is no walking them back. Those words sever all ties.
So that's the set-up. I've severed contact and, while I feel a sense of loss because the friendship was a good one for 20 years, I also want to fulminate here about her utter hypocrisy. Because, while she and I didn't talk politics, I saw on her Facebook page what was happening over the past few years.
She was out on the streets with her stupid little vagina hat protesting Trump's inauguration.
She used her Facebook page regularly to launch attacks on Trump, escalating this as the election neared.
I seem to recall her using her Facebook page to protest Trump putting kids in cages, although she never had a problem with that during Obama's years.
She was totally copacetic about the violent conduct during and after the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, including leftists storming the Capitol and trying to break down the doors to the Supreme Court. If I remember correctly she actively supported Blowsy-Frauds claims against Kavanaugh, despite the fact that no one could corroborate them and they suffered from so many internal contradictions it was impossible for them to be true.
And this past year, on Facebook, this white collar, stay-at-home worker fully supported the lockdowns that created terrible desperation amongst people who watched Democrat politicians reduce them to penury.
She supported the Black Lives Matter marches. Her response to the riots, the lootings, the beatings, the statue destruction, or the more than a dozen murders that happened under the BLM banner was to attack the NRA. Nor, despite her support for the economy and life-destroying lockdown, did she feel very troubled by thousands of people leaving their homes to riot and loot. When BLM hit D.C., she was quiet about the effort to burn St. John's church and the attempts to storm the White House. She didn't mourn a single life lost during riots that caused billions of dollars in damages and primarily destroyed black businesses.
And of course, she believed the Russia hoax that was the foundational lie justifying all the other behavior to which she either actively or passively gave her support.
But now, because of an election that violated every anti-fraud protocol and that resulted in statistically impossible numbers, suddenly I'm responsible for the fact that people entered the Capitol after the police opened the doors and welcomed them in. And I'm responsible for the fact that one of those police officers murdered an unarmed Air Force veteran in cold blood. And yes, I know Ms. Babbitt crawled in through one of the smashed windows, but with everyone else pouring in, why should she think that this was anything other than a way to enter if you could reach the front door? Despite this cold-blooded murder, my one-time friend isn't demanding that anyone defund the Capitol police.
So it's not just that this erstwhile friend struck me out of the blue that irritates me. It's the utter hypocrisy of a person who has, for four years, actively or passively supported every form of violence and divisiveness the left had to offer against a duly elected president. I held my tongue because I valued our friendship. She was unable to do so, meaning that I apparently misunderstood all these years the value that she placed on our long relationship.
I guess I should be grateful for the clarity. We're all going to be getting a lot of clarity in the coming weeks, months, and years.
Eff all of them.
I will no longer explain myself to them - don’t like me because of my political opinions?
Screw.
Life’s too short. Get out of my life.
That’s pretty much how a lot of us feel.
I have no National Socialist friends. Zero.
I have no “Democratic” Socialist friends. Zero.
I have no pedophile friends. Zero.
It is getting increasingly hard to tolerate former friends on the political left.
Anyone I thought of as a friend who subscribes to evil and cannot be reasoned out of that position is not someone I want in my life.
I lost a friend of over 50 years. This year... Becausehe doesn’t like Trump and his wife does and they argued fiercely and went I o marriage council ing. His wife saw an image of a Trump Flagg on my F B page and he blamed me because he had to do marriage counciling
I feel your pain. I lost a cousin this past summer when he posted to the Twitter verse that he hoped all Trump voters would die of COVID. When the rest of his family called him on it, he stood by his sentiment. I think he even cut off his sister.
Libs are well connected in their goal for socialism. Conservatives are oftentimes with their nature more reserved and thus less connected. We need to be more connected, have infrastructure so they can’t censure, support ect other so when they try and destroy our businesses we would already be supporting each other. Just like how it seems that big tech only hires their own. And of course grow conservative friendships.
I used to say that liberalism was a mental disease. While I still believe that, I also now have become acutely aware that it is also a demonic power emanating directly from the pits of hell. This is not hyperbole.
Personally, we tried to keep a friendship going with liberals for years. They also are not Christians. So, after Trump, we thank him for the decrease in stress from having to endure their posts!! When they cheer bad things that happen like the Islamic ladies did on 09/11/01, it made me sick to my stomach. So, I’ll let them keep their pro-choice, homosexual, anti-Christian politics!
I have a liberal friend who rarely, if ever, talks politics publicly on social media. Neither do I. We’ve always gotten along fairly well due to shared interests and we haven’t really talked politics privately much. When we have, we either agreed (he’s not a fan of SJWs ruining entertainment) or agreed to disagree. I made the mistake of looking at his “likes” this past week and... well, I don’t get offended very easily and I was offended. I may have to distance myself a little. I’m even considering leaving social media altogether and going back to hobbies/interest based forums.
A friend of mine was complaining the other day that he had lost a lot of friends over the election. I said I don’t have to worry about that......I have 4 friends and they’re all like me. Lol
Friendships end for a lot of reasons. This is as good as any reason, and better than some. I eliminated one friend whom I had known for thirty years but hadn’t seen in person for a while — only on FB. I got tired of his disrespect for my political and religious beliefs. We used to have good discussions about things, but he had become so far out there that I just didn’t need his crap any more.
I didn’t lose any friends.
I gained a little wisdom and insight though =)
well we have relatives galore that are stinking leftists but we don’t see them all that much because of distance....our friends are “our” people....
have to ask though.....why were you ever friends with someone who would wear a “vagina” hat?....
Lefties of any stripe are not your friends. Theirs is a ghoulish ideology.
I’ve got 5 friends, leftists/liberals ain’t none of them.
Yeah, I have no Democrat friends left (but, in truth, they were few and far between anyway; but we’d known each other for decades). I’ll be cordial if we ever run into each other, but that is unlikely because we don’t run in the same circles.
That said, encourage your family members and close friends to sign off and deactivate their accounts on Facebook and Twitter because it encourages divisiveness. (They silence Conservative voices as well, but that's another topic)
You’re absolutely right. (See my tagline.)
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