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Or are right left politics in this country so at odds that you can't even have friends that are from the opposite end of the spectrum? Would you break up a friendship if yyour friend supported higher taxes on the rich, gay marriage, abortion rights, and iimmigration reform?
I try not to discuss politics with my liberal friends and family members. But if it comes up the liberals usually get nasty calling me a teabagger or other derogatory name.
My wife is an architect.....most of her friends are liberals to the core. I tolerate them as people, but my wife can attest that my tolerance for them is vastly different than 'liking' them. Reasonable people can disagree on things, but I generally don't find liberals to be reasonable, thoughtful, or even logical. It's all emotion and demagoguery. Which is why I despise liberals and liberalism.
My friends are conservative. Reasonableness, common sense, and logic rules the day in our world.
My wife is an architect.....most of her friends are liberals to the core. I tolerate them as people, but my wife can attest that my tolerance for them is vastly different than 'liking' them. Reasonable people can disagree on things, but I generally don't find liberals to be reasonable, thoughtful, or even logical. It's all emotion and demagoguery. Which is why I despise liberals and liberalism.
My friends are conservative. Reasonableness, common sense, and logic rules the day in our world.
Or are right left politics in this country so at odds that you can't even have friends that are from the opposite end of the spectrum? Would you break up a friendship if yyour friend supported higher taxes on the rich, gay marriage, abortion rights, and iimmigration reform?
What's liberal and what's conservative. One person's conservative is another person's liberal. Also, normal people don't buy in to all of those issues on one side. Being a bigot against gay poeple isn't conservative, it's more religious and in this country since we only have two parties, it gets associated with conservatism.
Adults should be able to have differing views. The bigger challenge is that for most people, their political views are based on their emotions. Few people can really justify what they think. Thus, when you challenge their beliefs, you challenge their emotions. That's particularly true for the less intelligent among us. It tends to make for bad dinner table discussion.
Or are right left politics in this country so at odds that you can't even have friends that are from the opposite end of the spectrum? Would you break up a friendship if yyour friend supported higher taxes on the rich, gay marriage, abortion rights, and iimmigration reform?
Yes I have liberal friends . discussion with them about issues is void of any name calling and lies
My best friend is a diehard liberal. I met him in business school back in 2009. He and I disagree on literally everything political, but we always argue kinda in jest...Particulaly on the gold course. He calls me Rush and I call him every other name in the book...most can't be typed out in CD.
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