If you are losing friends because of politics you are a fool.
None of this crap impacts your daily life and certainly should not overcome the binds of family.
If you are not mature enough to change the subject or make it into a joke, or just say, “really? I do t want to talk about this.”
Shame on anyone losing a best friend over politics.
See post 22 for an explanation of how and why politics divides close friends and family. I really believe it’s not just a matter of Republicans versus Democrats. It goes down to your very core beliefs and values.
Politics is a solid benchmark of where you stand not just politically, but socially, economically, religiously, morally and in any and all other aspects of life.
So 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.
“Shame on anyone losing a best friend over politics.”
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I would imagine, Vermont Lt, that prior to wars being waged many a person has spoken like you.
Often that sentence becomes a death sentence because a friend becomes an enemy and does what enemies do....kill.