I had a liberal friend for years who rented and always voted for the school levy. A couple years ago she tried to recruit my vote. I told her now I’m not voting for higher taxes, I’m already paying nearly $1,000 for your kid to go to school. She gave me the typical liberal line about it being for the children.
Then one day she bought a house. And soon a school levy passed changing her house payment by enough to affect her meager budget. While she never apoligized she did complain about the tax increase. I simply asked her if she voted for the levy.
Needless to say we do not speak too often anymore.
“Friends” like that need to be pruned out anyway ;)
Some of my closest friends are libs for historical purposes and we just make it a point NEVER to discuss politics. Anything else is A-OK. Interestingly, other than at the voting booth, they lead extraordinarily conservative lifestyles. I don’t get it but it’s not worth losing the friendships. Other libs I just don’t deal with at all.