Many Freepers will be connecting with friends and relatives on the other side of the fence during the holidays.
Any stories?
I grieve with you.
I've lost friends over ideology and beliefs, as well. I think many of us have.
In some cases, we move along. In others, it's not so easy, is it?
I wonder how many Thanksgiving family get-to-gethers will end up like that tomorrow?
I've been through the same drill.
It's been my experience that today I'm happier and my new friends are smarter.
I ditched several friends during the clinton impeachment - their intellectual gymnastics to get to a palatable position was embarassing, and ultimately showed me that they weren't people I needed in my life.
Do I really want to be friends with someone who thinks the meaning of the word 'is' is ambiguous? Do I really want to date someone who is genuinely confused of the meaning of the word 'alone?'
Interestingly, in my experience many of the same people would not cut me anywhere near the same slack if I ever tried creative definitions of 'is' and 'alone' to wiggle out of a jam (or a lie, for that matter).
Integrity, integrity, integrity.
I'm sorry for your loss.
I think we all have horror stories of a similar vein that we could share.
I'm the black sheep of my family - I come from a long line of die-hard Massachusetts liberals. We finally had to make a rule that we would no longer discuss politics at family gatherings.
On a bright note, my mother and I have the same hairdresser - and he's a Republican. He *loves* being able to discuss politics when .45MAN and I get out hair cut and knows that the subject is absolutely taboo when he is doing my mom's hair.
My sympathy! I am currently trying to nurse a friendship with a Lib Schoolteacher. She's a dear friend and we have declared politics verboten in our conversations.....it was tough through the election, but hopefully since we survived that we can continue the friendship! It's not easy!!
I feel for you....
I keep friends and family by asking pointed questions instead of coming out and saying what I believe. The questions lead to opening and changing their mind. Huh, never thought about that... Always in response to them bringing up the subject, not me...
A wise man once told me to consider yourself a very lucky person if you can count your real friends on one hand when you die .
Sad, isn't it? Same thing's happened to me.
I remember a girlfriend who left for university a good conservative. Within six months, she was a raving Maoist. I haven't laid eyes on her for twenty five years.
Sorry to hear that.
On the plus side, my husband and I gained a friend. Our liberal neighbor with the yard full of democrat signs confided to my husband yesterday that he'd voted for Bush. Shhhh! It's a secret.
I am going thru this now with a friend of 30-some odd years.
I am to blame for all the social and political injustices in her narrow, little Noam Chomsky world.
It is very hard indeed to befriend the mentally ill. No all are called to do so or have the grace to do so...
If Bush had lost, I would have heard about it. Big Time. But I will not go down the Gloat Road. Not with my folks. They know better, deep down, I believe in their heart of hearts they know better. I cannot explain their behaviour, except to say they are Baby Boomers who were cared for all their lives by well-meaning but misguided WWII generation parents and parents-in-laws. Coming of age in the 1960s, they never really "got it", and after all these years they still refuse--willingly, I believe and am sad to say--to vote the way they know they should.
Condolences, seriously. That is an individual traumatized by politics, and such as she do not cling to politics for discourse, but for validation. When you do not agree with her you threaten what she is, or rather what she imagines that she is. Do not expect a rational response.
What good does it do one to keep such friends? They are to be "avoided and turned from". [Quotation from N. Taffy; alternative translation would be: "avoided and abominated"]
My ultra liberal sister hasn't emailed or spoken to me since the election. I have no idea if or when she will. She has been SO SURE she was right over the years and has enjoyed slinging little barbs and insults my way. I have no interest in arguing with her, we are both too set in our ways. But I am GREATLY enjoying being on the winning side for once. The grin on my face hasn't disappeared since Nov. 3rd.