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Strained or lost relationships because of politics

Posted on 11/17/2019 7:13:16 AM PST by neverevergiveup

How many FReepers have lost or strained relationships with family, friends, co-workers, etc. because of your support for Trump and/or for being a conservative? Clearly, there is a lot of actual hatred out there, and it has already turned violent. The left want to remove a duly elected US President, because they don't like him. They don't care about the opinions of their fellow citizens who voted for him and support him, and they are perfectly willing to disenfranchise them - or worse. I thought having people weigh in about their experiences would help to understand how widespread this is, and how deep the split in the US is.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: conflict; friendsandfamily; politics; qanon; redpillfails; vanity
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To: EQAndyBuzz

>>I nuked Passover. “If Hitler had a D next to his name you would vote for him.”
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I’m not Jewish but I think I’d like to attend YOUR Passover. LOL.


81 posted on 11/17/2019 1:00:23 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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To: aquila48

“I realized a while back that politics trumps everything - friendship, family, religion, race...”

You’re right. I know that’s true for me. I would marry outside of my race and religious denomination before I’d marry a liberal. No kidding.


82 posted on 11/17/2019 1:10:12 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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To: Guenevere; daler

Yeah; actually “propane” kinda made sense. LOL!


83 posted on 11/17/2019 1:13:24 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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To: PA Presbyterian
You can't reason with people who are convinced they are right, and who refuse to even consider another point of view. If your friend truly does know corruption when she sees it, then she couldn't have voted for Hillary.

I agree with one of the comments made that often there is something else, beyond the politics but connected to the politics that leads to the hate.

My friend has looked down his nose at blue collar people, rural people, people who go into the military (’they just like to play with guns’) etc.. His world view has been painted by his belief that living in the city, watching the ‘correct news’ (i.e. CNN and Maddow etc), and being a college educated liberal distinguish you as ‘smart’ and worthy of air vs. those dumb people who want to live in the country or suburbs, and who would rather work in their yards than to flag down a cab to go to dinner in the city.

84 posted on 11/17/2019 1:20:15 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: neverevergiveup

In dealing with people, everyone discriminates among people in the context of choosing friends.
Discrimination means noticing similarities and differences among people, and classifying people on the basis of those similarities and differences.
Each individual person has his own standard which he applies when he discriminates.
For some people, politics is the essential or fundamental characteristic that they use as their standard when choosing friends.


85 posted on 11/17/2019 2:49:18 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: TigerHawk

Amen!
Thank-you!....Bless you!


86 posted on 11/17/2019 3:21:54 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: neverevergiveup

I have a cousin I use to be close too @20 years ago who has gone to the liberal dark side. I might give a shit about if he finally pulls his head out of his arse. Otherwise, all I can say is …………..well.bye.


87 posted on 11/17/2019 4:48:55 PM PST by ohioman
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To: blam

And to think this is all took place in Pismo beach made famous by the Marx brothers...amazing..Just joking!


88 posted on 11/17/2019 5:14:58 PM PST by dennisw
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To: rockrr

Their churlishness is amusing.

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Actually it is not amusing.

These are the people who will kill you and yours if we go all Rwanda....and there is a good chance we will.

Keep a list of who is that mad. So you can know where and who to avoid.


89 posted on 11/17/2019 5:40:35 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”

Don’t worry - I have a plan ;’}


90 posted on 11/17/2019 6:51:16 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Guenevere

And Bless you, also.


91 posted on 11/17/2019 7:13:50 PM PST by TigerHawk
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To: Scarpetta

Happy belated birthday, Scarpetta!


92 posted on 11/17/2019 7:40:04 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: daler

Somehow propane worked too ;’}


93 posted on 11/17/2019 7:46:20 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: SheepWhisperer
How many of these TDS people are truly regenerate Christians? My personal observation...none. Some claim some spiritual belief, but their lives declare that they’re lost. Is this your observations too? If so, is a spiritual thing happening.

I agree. I had to dump two 50+ year friendships because they simply could not stop sending me garbage articles and hateful comments about Trump, even knowing I and another family member supported and worked for his campaign. I had not bothered them when they voted Democrat, but they did not extend the same respect to me after a couple of warnings and requests to avoid the topic. I concluded that they simply did not value the things I most value, Christ Jesus chief among them, and the respect, discretion, forebearance, truth, accountability and love that flow from the privilege of devotion to Him. One claims Episcopalianism and the other, Presbyteriansim. Both those old-line denominations have gone full-tilt LGBTQ.

94 posted on 11/17/2019 7:57:31 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: SheepWhisperer

And now that I think of it, both drink too much.


95 posted on 11/17/2019 8:03:22 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Responsibility2nd
there is no shame in losing a best friend or even a close family member due to politics. Not when their political view points put them in severe and significant opposition to your conservative way of life.

So true!

96 posted on 11/17/2019 8:10:50 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: MayflowerMadam
I would marry outside of my race and religious denomination before I’d marry a liberal. No kidding.

Same here, and same towards whomever my offspring bring home.

97 posted on 11/17/2019 8:15:00 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thanks! I hope to lay in my casket with a face full of deep wrinkles!


98 posted on 11/18/2019 5:27:22 AM PST by Scarpetta (The election of Donald UTrump is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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To: neverevergiveup
Not looking forward to Thanksgiving (which also happens to be my birthday this year ...) knowing that I have family that get spittle-talking-angry-triggered-insane at the mere mention of President Trump.

I may just stay home alone this year. I just cannot take them and their constant harping about "orange man bad!" anymore......

99 posted on 11/18/2019 5:40:06 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box <i>)
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To: Scarpetta
Thanks! I hope to lay in my casket with a face full of deep wrinkles!

Well and good!

My approach is, "I'll be late to my own funeral"—having a chronic OCD / lateness habit the decades have never mended.

100 posted on 11/18/2019 6:22:12 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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