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The saddest is my younger sister who decades ago married a German and lives over there.
close mindedness that led to the fallout
I have a neighbor couple that are both community college professors. Both teaching English (very not needed once you get to college, but whatever). Very liberal. Hate Trump. Make jokes at every chance.
The most divisive president ever!
The saddest is my younger sister who decades ago married a German and lives over there.
I've been watching this for decades. That's why I have nothing but disgust for those today who use the word liberal as a pejorative and scapegoat for everything wrong, while Republican shit doesn't stink.
Since the last election not so much.
Republicans identifying anyone who disagreed with them as anti-American, even subhuman...
Anyone lost close friends since the election?
I had a good friend tell me "I hope you get cancer" when we were debating Obamacare and the possibility of Trump fixing it, back in 2015.
The most divisive president ever!
I had a different perspective since I have lived and worked in Mexico before California.
Normal people are still doing what they did before the electionThat's what I can't understand about my band leader's parents, probably in their early 60's, both sweet people whom I get along with. We often eat together at Norma's Cafe in Oak Cliff before his shows at the Kessler Theater across the street. But from November 9 on it has virtually destroyed his mother. She rants and raves and obsesses on Facebook about how she hates anyone who likes Trump, so I'm careful not to mention anything political. She also hates everything religious, especially Christian and her husband follows suit. I can't see how in any shape, form or fashion their lives were changed by the election. They had been renters all their lives until some time last year they bought a nice house in the Casa View part of Dallas and it looks like a nice home and neighborhood and know they are enjoying it. I don't know how their lives would be any different or better if Hillary had won. Their son and his wife are going to have to leave Dallas for Cincinnati as they had to move out of their rental and simply can't afford the escalating prices in Dallas, even though he stays busy with gigs all the time and she works. I'm sure his parents are unhappy about that, but that has nothing to do with the election.
It’s 2018 and what you describe is today’s left.
I enjoy being contrarian so this can be amusing.
The worst part of this election is what it revealed to us about our fellow men.
You're not grounded in reality. I have many to the right and many to the left of me. The righties accept my differences with them and are able to have a constructive debate while remaining friends. The lefties go into temper tantrum mode and passive-aggressively cancel their friendship or ask every 2 seconds why I am a Nazi.
Conservatives know that this isn’t true, that such people are rare and the rest of the ones who appear this way are just pretending. They know that people must be provided with incentives to be good and virtuous and hardworking
mell saysYou're not grounded in reality. I have many to the right and many to the left of me. The righties accept my differences with them and are able to have a constructive debate while remaining friends. The lefties go into temper tantrum mode and passive-aggressively cancel their friendship or ask every 2 seconds why I am a Nazi.
This is because you're on the right. You can agree with people that have the same beliefs, and can't agree with people that don't. Big surprise.
Liberals believe in the innate goodness of mankind, that everyone wants to be upright
Suffering is bad, okay?
Suffering is necessary.
Tell that to those who lost family in German ovens, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., all throughout the bloody history of the human race.
Trump’s circus act is a sinister distraction
The circus act children love the most is the one that is meant to distract them. When the clown comes out, the kids have eyes for nothing else. Little do they notice the scenery changes in the background. Elephants may be replaced by trapeze artists. Flame eaters supplant the lions. But the children stay riveted on the clown in the spotlight.
Donald Trump is the circus maestro of our age. Since the US president took office, he has upended America’s regulatory culture. Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist, described it as the “deconstruction of the administrative state”. Most of us are too entertained to pay close attention. Much as the media love to hate Mr Trump, he is the gift that keeps on giving. Traffic is booming. Advertising dollars keep flowing in.
I had a good friend tell me "I hope you get cancer" when we were debating Obamacare and the possibility of Trump fixing it, back in 2015.
I haven't talked to him since.
Corporations own the politicians now, they own America, the parties are really the same, they just have different ways of pillaging and robbing, gotta pick a club, gotta be compartmentalized, if you go independent your a nobody, but a great way to keep the masses at odds with one another. It should be pretty obvious by now, both parties are sleeping together. We are a popularity contest society. I see people change the way they talk and act by who's president and what they are fed via the boob tube.
I have a couple people in my life who were extremely close to me most of my life... we grew up together, played sports together, went to school together, were involved in each others weddings etc.
But since this election it’s become clear that we are 180degrees apart on the topics of politics and religion. It’s greatly strained our relationship.
Has anyone experienced strained or broken relationships with what used to be close friends or family over the past two years due to differing positions on politics/religion?
In both cases it had to do with intolerance and close mindedness that led to the fallout