Yup, just walked away from a friend yesterday for just that reason.
It’s dividing my husband’s family. Phone calls from dh to his two brothers turn to shouting. Dh has said some things which I have never before heard from his mouth.
I hate personal confrontations but recently ended up in a full-blown screaming match with a friend, now former-friend.
I know I should have kept my cool and tried to for a long time.
But eventually lost it when this person said that the prayer given by Lowery at the inauguration was actually an “old slave prayer.” Really? Old Slave Prayer? Don’t think so. Don’t think any slaves were worried about “when yellow gets mellow.”
i have friends i am avoiding for precisely that reason. i could not remain civil if they said one syllable in support of the Obams.
Ever since I voted for Eisenhower, Nixon,Goldwater etc I have had logical, sincere debates with friend and relatives over politics.
I, too, since BO (!) WON the nomination have seen sincere debates turn into bitter, divisive, increasingly loud, and saddest of all, less and less frequent. Ultimately there is neither contact nor a desire for contact.
If this is a definition of “Healing” or “Bringing together” or “Uniting” I need to find a new dictionary.
There is a tiny, tiny bit of comfort in learning that I’m not the only one finding this is life today.
Yes, I walked away from my best friend about two weeks ago when she finally let slip she voted for Bozo and that we "needed to give him a chance". When I pointed out to her she was parroting the news media she became highly incense, I told her I no longer wished to talk to her, have contact in anyway and would she please remove my email from her contact list. Sad, but I will not be friends with someone so stupid they can't see what Bozo is. She was a conservative, or so she always said.