[Jack Black]

Ping for you know what. Another statement of the sadly obvious. We are a house divided.

Anyone else losing friends over politics lately? I've had one (very liberal) person say never to email him again or speak to him as a result of a series of articles I sent him from mainstream media like the Weekly Standard, Human Events, and other stuff I find of FR.

More recently two very close old friends have turned savage and vicious on our email exchanges using lot of personal insults directed at me. So far this hasn't resulted in the end of our friendship, which has deep roots, but it certainly has strained it.

I can not discuss politics with my parents, in their 70s who seem to have made the move from moderate Kennedy democrats to full on Kerry dems.

Were it not for the good friends I have made here I would be lonely.

[archy]

Ping for you know what. Another statement of the sadly obvious. We are a house divided.

'Fraid so, and I'm also afraid it's not at all a matter of the boy who cried wolf.

Were it not for the good friends I have made here I would be lonely.

I wish only that you were in a location a bit easier to visit, and perhaps a bit less hostile to your own wellbeing when things begin getting stickier here. I fear it will not be much longer. And wherever I am, in such horrible times or these that we may look back to as *good old days,* there will be room alongside for you. And that applies to others here as well.

[Woahhs]

Amen, brother. We had family over for Easter brunch this a.m., and I was just about heartbroken by the amount of mindless, self-contradictory, propaganda that has been absorbed by bright, affluent, family members.

It's like living a scene from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

[Allegra]

Anyone else losing friends over politics lately? I've had one (very liberal) person say never to email him again or speak to him as a result of a series of articles I sent him from mainstream media like the Weekly Standard, Human Events, and other stuff I find of FR. ]

My best friend from high school is a dyed-in-the-wool DC-native liberal. We have so many other things in common and we really do love each other like sisters.

We learned a while back not to touch politics. We are polar opposites.

When I accepted my current job late last year, she let me know her opinion but told me she grudgingly now had to support certain things she was very against because of me.

I took a fiendish delight in that. Heh, heh...

[Cannoneer No. 4]

DEAL WITH IT

[HitmanLV]

I kicked a few friends to the curb when they became brainless shills for Clinton during the impeachment era. I don't miss them.

Also, I only date conservative women, or apolitical/nonpolitical women.

[Nowhere Man]

More recently two very close old friends have turned savage and vicious on our email exchanges using lot of personal insults directed at me. So far this hasn't resulted in the end of our friendship, which has deep roots, but it certainly has strained it.

I can not discuss politics with my parents, in their 70s who seem to have made the move from moderate Kennedy democrats to full on Kerry dems.

Well, it's like the old saying, "father against son, cousin against cousin, brother against brother." B-( Maybe my fahter ain't too far off but still I don't feel comfortable talking about it and even feel like when I talk about a "Civil War II" I'm a member of the "tinfoil hat brigade" but I can help but notice that things seem to be headed that way.

[Arizona]

Anyone else losing friends over politics lately?

I have no close friends who are leftists, but I do have some liberal relatives including a sister who proudly claims to be "the liberals' liberal", knowing it tweaks me, and proudly boasts of her closeness to other relatives who are just so totally liberal! hah! We don't see each other often and only bear the occasional visits by not speaking about certain subjects which leaves very little to chat about. She usually manages to throw at least one zinger into the conversation somewhere. I ignore it and keep my thoughts to myself, but look forward to the next election when I can cancel out her vote. :)

az

[Two-Bits]

It kind of reminds me of how it must have been prior to the civil war in this country. Houses divided, son against father, brother against brother etc. This Country is definately divided and headed into another civil war. It is amazing though that again the Party of Lincoln is on the right side.

[JimRed]

More recently two very close old friends have turned savage and vicious on our email exchanges using lot of personal insults directed at me.

FWIW, they have probably started to recognize that they are in the wrong. Everyone hates being wrong (at least I know I do) and sometimes the tendency to lash out gets loose.