Posted on 11/24/2004 2:42:43 PM PST by mlmr
I lost an old friend today. No, she didn't die. She screamed at me for my many-year metmorphisis from rad-liberal to conservative. She doesn't understand why I have changed, and is unable to listen because she is filled with bile, anger and hate. She wishes Bush evil and hates US policy. She has turned into a Michal Moore robot.
We have not been close friends for many years but I did enjoy keeping in touch. Because of our thirty year history I have treated the friendship gingerly but with great fondness.
Politics is hell.
Friendship is dear, but I think this one might be a lost cause.
I'm an optimist be nature, but...
The one thing all of the above have in common: An obsessive hatred of Bush (and Republicans) that overwhelms everything else in their life.
My friend was always able to hate well. She hides it under the auspices of concerne for the "innocent Iraqi people".
Friendship is more important.
I am.
Very interesting. Who is he?
My parents are just happy I finally turned conservative
YOU were... a liberal?!?!
That's just hard to picture...
Now it's two of us who use 'christmas card friends!' ;-)
Send her a gift with a bottle of "W" ketchup and a roll of Kerry toilet paper!
Thank God MOST of my friends are on the same page as me!! Whew!! And family too. I guess I'm blessed....
I have 3 liberal acquaintances that explain my relationships the best.
One no longer talks to me because I would not allow him to malign our troops, our reasons & involvement in Iraq, etc.
Second just hasn't spoken with me since just before & after the election. I think it is let down; she will recover.
The third thinks she is a liberal, but is apathetic for the most part. I usually challenge her when she parrots the liberal line. But, she hasn't stopped talking to me. Our differences are just that, differences. But, she never, ever says degrading things about our military or actions in front of me. She knows that is off limits.
I think they might have boken a few keyboards at the closing because I noted they should keep it up, we'd be happy to hand them their asses at the midterms and in 2K8 ;-)
Here's the problem - she may well be more interested in the hating than anything else. The fact that she is obsessed and refuses to discuss anything else points this way. If she were a conservative she'd be a stormfronter or one of those reclusive survivalist types.
You may just have to mourn a little while and then leave this one behind. As you said on the phone, you never knew her.
I have a friend here at work that had his friend email him out of the blue after the election; essentially screaming about abortion, etc. She took her anger over the loss out on anyone she could on the "winning" side it seems.
Thank God MOST of my friends are on the same page as me!! Whew!! And family too. I guess I'm blessed
You sure are!
You have FRiends that you do not even know about!
You may just have to mourn a little while and then leave this one behind. As you said on the phone, you never knew her.
You are right.
She took her anger over the loss out on anyone she could on the "winning" side it seems.
She is using anyone she can.
"...and my new friends are smarter."
I love it!
Variations of this speech have been delivered to various AIA conferences including the 2000 Consevative University at American University
Here's a big lesson. If you have friends you want to keep, never discuss religion or politics with them if you know you can't change their minds. It's not worth losing the friendship over.
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