for it. The “gap” separating the people has gotten immensely wider these last two decades. About a decade ago you saw Lefties who were no longer willing to even be friends with conservatives!
And this natural division is growing and growing. They are most often completely tribal; They have “gone native.”
The very notion of ending long friendships over political disagreements was pretty much unheard of in my social and professional circles. I’m not saying it never happened before 2016, I’m just saying that it didn’t in my life. That all changed in recent years, especially after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Apparently, the Supreme Court of the United States operates under my direction. People who I had been close to for decades stopped speaking to me. It bothered me for a long time because I cherish my close friendships.
After two-and-a-half years of trying to mend fences that I didn’t break, I’m over it.
… Democrats who believe that their politics make them permanent residents of the moral high ground are particularly galling. While I truly would like to get along better, I can’t muster any patience to indulge delusions like that. Political beliefs don’t make one a good person; being a good person makes one a good person.
… That being said, or rather written, the worst of the TDS people are going to make sure that no unity candle gets lit anytime soon. The mere sight of President-elect Donald Trump becoming President Donald Trump next week is going to introduce a mutant strain of TDS into the national political “conversation.” I won’t be expecting any calls from the friends who’ve already been super not talking to me for a couple of years.