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I know that we should, but the fact is, I can't be friends with some one who hates themselves, me, children, truth, and the planet.
Yes, first of all, I don't base all my relationships around politics, but also, I enjoy debating with republican friends who can maintain a conversational tone and avoid getting their ego into it. Yes, I am happy to be friends with republicans, especially if they are willing to listen to my so-called radical lefty views. That's how things change. Conversation, friends; the realization that leftists are real people who have often thought their views out and they are based on practical considerations, science and nature.
Yes, first of all, I don't base all my relationships around politics, but also, I enjoy debating with republican friends who can maintain a conversational tone and avoid getting their ego into it. Yes, I am happy to be friends with republicans, especially if they are willing to listen to my so-called radical lefty views. That's how things change. Conversation, friends; the realization that leftists are real people who have often thought their views out and they are based on practical considerations, science and nature. If you can't be friends with a Drumpf supporter, you might consider that the left is about more than fitting in with hipster crowds.
No. I can be friendly with them, but not true friends. My husband is Arabic, so anyone who would vote for us getting harassed at the airport, or excluding him from going to visit family all together, they don't get to pretend to be my friend.
No. I can (and I am) civil with them. But 'friends' are people I genuinely like. Someone who supports someone like Trump is someone I fundamentally have issues with. Nit entirely political, but universal issues such as human decency, morality, and compassion, These are not my friends.
Yes, the enemy is division, the friend is connection. Solutions lie in connection, not division. Know that it's possible to build bridges even in such difficult times, as we are in. A hint: just avoid propaganda.
See... No offense, but you sound like a very privileged individual. Some of us (LGBT, POC, etc.) can't afford to just debate about our EXISTENCE constantly or have "friends" who are basically like, "I don't hate you, but I don't think you deserve to be equal to me." I've certainly tried talking to them but there's a point where you're TIRED of having to explain to someone why you should be treated like a damn person!! My life is NOT up for debate and there's no wiggle room for compromise. You're either with me or against me and I will not waste my time on a racist, homophobic, sexist, or otherwise bigoted person.
TRUMP IS A RAPIST AND IF YOU SUPPORT HIM THEN YOU REVOLT ME.
Hey...No offense, but I agree with you more than you may think! Until we can start getting honest news (not smoke and mirrors news), it's going to be almost impossible to try to set up a good "connection" with some people. Until then, I would like to suggest that you find the most progressive friends you can and join together with them to resist. Power to the people!!!
I WANT TO BE ABLE TO THROW THEIR BAD DECISION IN THEIR FACE WHEN IT ALL GOES TO HELL AND FOR NOT TAKING ANY ACTION TO FIND OUT WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON.
Depends on the definition one applies to the term "FRIEND". I can be a member of a family with Trumpster Voters and just not enable their political discussions. I can have REP acquaintenances but a FRIEND? Of course not....... once I know someone is mean spirited and dumb.
I feel if a person is that uninformed, or MISinformed, then they aren't playing with a full deck. I'm Tom's age, and I don't have the time or patience to abide such meatheaded ignorance.
Well. At least Woolsey (SP unsure) has some simblance of "Dignity" by resigning from the transition team to shame the facsist regieme he signed on with. Amazing how the rest of the Tea Party idiots are holding on....... I never in my wildest mind thought that I would put my hopes and dreams in McCain and the closet HGBT guy from South Carolina (Young Lindsay) to keep them in check but; that appears to be all we have been rendered. Any Trump voters ready to recind your votes now? Damage done "DUN"! Send your youngans to war for Russia! Mine ain't a going. And by the way; buy Russian flags and give them to anyone you feel sure voted for him. They will not recognize it. It ain't the Hammer and Sickle no mo..... But the current ones are correct!
Bless their hearts! They will think them Mexican flags..........LOL!
My best friend since 3rd grade is a lifer Republican, but didn't vote for Trump (or Hillary), although did vote for Obama, but is very fiscally Conservative, albeit not socially. If he voted for Trump, think his wife did, it would be different.
No I cannot be friends with people who hurt me by the way they vote. When I vote for something or someone I don't harm them at all. They believe all the propaganda they hear and have no problem repeating these lies. When I try to talk about facts they won't listen. Trumpism is the worst thing for everyone except the one percent.
I have found the issue is not whether I can be friends with a Trump supporter (I, like other commenters here, feel that someone who condones or looks the other way at bigotry, racism, misogyny, sexual predation and violence, anti-semitism, anti-LGBT, isn't someone I can include as a friend), but rather do Trump supporters make friends with liberals. I see so much rage and ugly trolling, have been threatened, shut down, cut off. I have not experienced Trump supporters attempting to have a dialogue with liberals or with me, a liberal. I sincerely doubt the Trump supporting crowd is taking polls like this one. Not one of them, it seems, would ever consider a liberal as even human. All I've ever seen is hatred for liberals, called "libtards," in discussions on the web. They aren't willing to be friends with us. So now, how do we heal the divide, or maybe less presumptuously, why would we try? Why wouldn't we stand firm in our principles, our morals, our ethics, and let them arrive at the place where they have to be kinder if they want our participation (like taxes from blue states). It seems arrogant to incessantly try to win over people who have no interest in being won over.
Not truely friends, how can that happen. Don't like minded people hang together because they're not debating against one another on most issues but debating together against agreed issues. Does that make sense, ha.
Yes, I have too. I have a social dance club with all types. I try very hard to not have dialogue with these people but only know a few and really don't want to know. At our Hallween dance one couple came as Hillary and Trump. The Trump supporter wore Hillary mask and Hillary supporter wore the Trump. Too much infor for me as I look at them differently now but always nice to clients.