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I had some liberal friends and family pre Trump and it was my mistake to mention on facebook a few times that Trump might not be so bad. I was slammed and dumped by these folks. Oh well, the liberal loons are out there and these folks had a heavy dose of Trump Derangement Syndrome. I'm better off without them.
What is weird is that I am certainly willing to talk with anyone about their views and beliefs on any topic and have a healthy debate and walk away friends but when it comes to talking politics with someone that is a Democrat they are the most narrow minded angry people I have ever met.
Agreed. My personal observations have been that the more strident and unreasonable they are the more likely it is that the person is poorly educated (or is really old). It just seems that they have lost the ability to objectively analyze new information, so they don't. They operate on whatever they used to know, and just assimilate a compatible view on current events into that.
If yes explain why? When I mean disowned I mean block from social media, refuse to talk to the person any more and/or avoid them altogether.
I didn't, but one friend of mine has avoided me since the election because I wasn't upset enough that President Trump won.
To him, Trump is evil incarnate, and is the source of all the worlds woes.
When I told him that the choice wasn't between the lesser of two evils but the evil of two lessers, and that I couldn't vote for Hillary, and didn't throw my vote away on a protest vote, so I guess he decided I was a member of the deplorables.
I haven't spoken to him for over a year now.
His problem, not mine. I liked the tax cut and some of the other stuff that's happening like low unemployment.
I wasn't an ardent Trump supporter, but he's proven to be a lot better president than I thought he would be, so I don't have a problem with him.
I don't know any Clinton supporters yet. They are ALL TRUMP SUPPORTERS. Even strangers who I meet and they come around to say something political , such as , I am proud of the flag, or something in the news .. then I know to ask "Did you vote Trump? They say yes.. because I am smiling and they know I voted for him also before they answer.
I could never disown anyone for voting opposite from whom I voted for. My friends are more then just a vote. I don't like fanatical views, and that is just too extreme for me. Making someone or any situation the whole thing out of just one viewpoint is unfair.
What's hard for me is talking to the seniors that voted for Trump and seeing how out of touch they are. One didn't know who Manafort was. They worship Trump like dear leader and that frightens me. I can't fault them or be angry with them. I view them as a generation where your word meant something, and that's something that should have been protected, not exploited. The truth will come out in the end, and their friendships mean more to me then a vote, or an opposing view point. Each year one of them disappears from our skating group and that is depressing. At that point it just doesn't matter who they voted for. I'll never see them again, and that reality trumps a vote every time.
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