How many of your friends have lots of opposed political views to yours?

In My Humble Opinion
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A few. I hate discussing politics but a lot of people are very vocal. My family is extremely conservative, they hate blacks and don’t really like Muslims either…but I tell you, Trump scares the shit out of all brown folks. I see no reason to think any Trump supporter will even bother to differentiate between us.

I have a few colleagues/acquaintances who have come out as Trump supporters and I have to say, I am a little disappointed. I don’t mind conservatives, my husband ranks as a conservative, but he definitely feels the Republican party has crossed over into Crazytown and left proper conservatives like him behind.

El_Kabog makes a good point in that both sides often just parrot whatever they hear. “Muslims are terrible! Why don’t they stop their own, before they blow shit up!” They do, they report them in record numbers, and most of them just want to live their lives and feed their kids. “GMOs are terrible! I don’t want any manufactured, created, genetically modified food!” Um, nearly everything you eat has been modified in some way. Do you really think we are eating what the cavemen ate? Do you think cavemen had tomatoes bigger than their heads?

One of my facebook acquaintances posts constantly about Bernie Sanders. I like Bernie and probably would have voted for him…but posting about him every day is just annoying.

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Virtually none. In this day and age, I simply couldn’t respect someone or feel any positive thoughts for someone who considers themself a current Republican.

43

None of my close friends are anarchists, they’re all just regular liberals. So I’m used to people not being 100% in synch with me politically. But “regular liberal” is as far to the right as I’m willing to tolerate. I also don’t have any Marxist or Communist friends, so it’s not just fascists I won’t make time for.

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I have a few friends who hold strong political views opposed to mine, but in none of those cases are our politics the basis for our relationship. I ignore things from them that I think are ranty without any thought behind them, and I rarely post anything political myself. The only friends I’ve dumped over that sort of discussion are the rare type who will post something ugly and then say, “And I don’t want to hear any opposing views!”

As long as you’re willing to discuss something rationally, even if we’re always bound to disagree, I’m likely to tolerate you, at the very least.

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I have always had both liberal and conservative friends. The people I am closest with lean a bit more liberal, but none are particularly obsessed with politics.