This article helped me understand some of the Internet bullying I was experiencing from two longtime friends. All over Trump. They went batsh** crazy when I unfriended one on Facebook over me privately asking if the person really believed the anti-Trump posts the person was posting - how insensitive of me, I was engaging in bullying by asking this, when I tried to apologize twice over what I thought was a misunderstanding, it was not accepted, it wasn’t good enough, I was told I better think long and hard about what I was doing. When I said to myself, I don’t need this and hit the Unfriend button, then the other person came after me with nasty messages. Now I know who the real friends were in the combination of our longtime emailing of one another, and it wasn’t me. Should auld acquaintance be forgot and ne’er be brought to mind? Unfortunately, yes, and I’m posting this to help others who lost friends and experienced broken relationships over politics.
That’s why I never responded to old friends hitting me up on FB and why I only have 3 friends there. 2 were an accidental “Friending” and I felt bad about un-friending them. Especially since one was my daughter.
My old classmates and such, I’d just as soon remember them as they were instead of finding out they are now liberal douchebags. Heck, I haven’t even gone to a class reunion in the 40+ years since graduation.
I understand completely that happened to you, as my experience with loved ones was very similar. One does not communicate with me much at all, because I must me so very ignorant and a racist. The other was so upset over articles and videos I sent her to read and view and asked her to point out the “untruths” she saw. She couldn’t so became so upset she worried that I would not welcome her again at my home! Of course I told her I loved her, which I do, and told her we can agree to disagree.
I believe the truth is, Liberals have no way to answer when facts are presented to them so naturally they get very upset. Snowflakes for sure who really need those “safe places” where facts can not be allowed to enter!
” I’m posting this to help others who lost friends and experienced broken relationships over politics.”
as one gets older and time becomes more precious, one realizes that life is too short to waste in relationships with fools, stupid people, thoughtless people, people who crave chaos and instability, drama queens (and kings), people who live to argue, people who are unable to have rational discussions, etc.