In a sense. I have a 'friend' I no longer speak to after she told me I needed to go get fitted for my white sheet because I voted for Trump. So it wasn't exactly for her political beliefs, but rather her intolerance for mine.
I've unfriended people because they wouldn't shut up about politics and they had insane friends. But I have a few friends who are Trumplicans, but they also post other things. That I don't mind
No.
I've stopped being friends with people because of the way they spoke about their politics, for things like repeatedly stating their position and yet refusing to hear any criticism of those positions.
Sometimes I made the decision, sometimes they did.
I have a few family members that are trying to pull me back to the Republican side. I stopped engaging because they aren’t interested in a discussion, they want to be angry.
Just once. This one relative is unable to have a conversation about anything without turning it into an attempt to force her political opinions on others. My mother told her to stop emailing because they had nothing in common. I just avoid her.
There was a neighbor I thought was a friend. Then we got in a discussion about illegal immigration. I ask how many you would allow into our country. Right away they started calling me a racist. That was 4 years ago and haven’t spoke to them since. Goodby and good riddance to bad rubbish.
Never. Politics is one of the very least important things in my personal life. I'm much more concerned about my friends' gaming abilities and preferences. I had a good one in HS that I played wargames with all the time, and he was as religiously stuck-up a Republican as teenagers came in those days. We argued a lot more about piddly-poop rules than we did politics.
'You can't move that army through that hex because that's a neutral country, and you have to wait a turn after you declare war.' Yeah, that particular one lost me that game.
I stopped being friends with someone over the athletes kneeling thing and marriage for all people.Same person, two issue, I didn’t need their racist hypocrisy once it came out.
I haven’t. I believe that people see things differently depending on their life experiences. Also, good people can have different thought processes that lead them to different conclusions. I’m not going to throw someone away because they don’t think like me.
Not totally, but some friendships have diminished in quality and time spent together when people cannot stop talking about politics during social occasions. I’ve been deeply interested in politics since age 12 or 13, but politics should not dominate everything and leave room for nothing else.
I make a point never to let petty political differences effect my personal relationships, which is why I consider @DoctorWasdarb a friend even though I disagree with pretty much everything the good doctor stands for, politically speaking. You’d be surprised how many people disagree with this mentality at a left-leaning university when they find out you lean conservative, though.
I think it is more individual than that. The people who have ended friendships with me have all been right wing folks. I am a slightly left leaning moderate, and have heard a number of right wing folks comment that I am not “conservative enough” or can’t understand how I see and agree with some points from the left. Even my most left wing friends have tolerated my more right leaning views. It may just come down to the quality of the friendship to start with...
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