Me, too! I recently went back to California for a few weeks. Saw my oldest friend there and she told me she is an independent but she always votes Dem. Then she said, “I am no Tea Partier.” So I said, “Well, I AM a Tea Partier,” and my cousin piped in, “I’m a Tea Partier, too!” That prompted me to say we’d better not talk politics as things might get heated.
Since 2008, I had put all known libs out of my life, including my brother-in-law. Can’t stand to be around anyone stupid enough to vote for Dems. It’s a good thing she is 3000 miles away because I would hate to have to avoid her, too. But for the life of me, I can’t understand how supposedly intelligent, kind, decent people continue voting for the party of evil!
It became even more bizarre when people who were liberal at 20 were still liberal at 40; with the exception of the few public school teachers I know (who are laughing all the way to the bank), most people have grown up by the time they’re 40. After that, I’d expect only government workers, homosexuals/deviants, and any unassimilated permanently- dependent minorities (who contribute nothing to the cost of liberal programs) to be “liberal”.