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All My so-called "friends" are GOP/Tea baggers
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Anonymous
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so I really don't hang out with them, don't even want to anymore, don't even want our kids playing together (not that they did much but we did do birthday parties and such together). I actually despise their narrow minded view points on the world. I can't believe I spent so much time with them in college and never bothered me. must have been all the booze. So now I feel like I have no friends.....sad but true.
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Anonymous
| Ugh. Find some new friends stat. |
Anonymous
| so you cannot debate with your friends? I like discussing politics with my liberal and close-minded friends. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, somewhere around 03 I started seeing Republicanism as a personality disorder. I'm a democratic socialist, but in the 90s my two best friends were Republicans. They left the party during Bush (the party left them, really). The people I knew who kept supporting Bush were completely irrational. It felt strange talking about almost anything with them, since they seemed to have such a weak grip on reality. |
Anonymous
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That is what you get for choosing to live in Wyoming, Ashburn VA, or depressed parts of Ohio. Or a lot of Spring Valley, although I think they hire other puppet people to attend the tea bagger rallies in their place.
Joking aside, I don't know a single solitary reactionary Republican and that is a function of where I reside. So when I sign up for Rec Center art class, I can be pretty sure that even though I don't know any other parents from that class -- yet -- when I do meet them, they're not going to be tea baggers. Consider moving? |
Anonymous
| You can't be friends with someone with differing political views? How strange. |
Anonymous
| You are calling them narrow minded? Look in the mirror |
Anonymous
That was my thought as well. I have friends who are raging liberals and friends who are fundie Christian Conservatives. Most fall somewhere in the middle. I don't think of any of them as "narrow-minded".
I can't imagine why you have no friends. You sound like so much fun! |
Anonymous
No, I think OP is right. There are limits. It's one thing to disagree with someone and it's another to have differences that are so major that they make you sick. |
Anonymous
This. I love debating with my friends as long as things are kept civil. |
Anonymous
Really? Their views make you sick? They aren't killing puppies and punching babies for pete's sake. 
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Anonymous
This. My ex who I had maintained an open (with DH) friendship with became this unrecognizable unhinged person. He was always a Republican, but really muted about it. We dated for 10 years and after a break of 3 years I met my DH. This guy was the love of my life, actually. But he morphed into a cartoon of a person (in my eyes) after the Twin Towers incident--all my contacts with right-wingers devolved and faded. I too, consider Republicanism to be a personality disorder. |
Anonymous
| sad you are so close minded. I have this personality disorder of which you speak, but I have great friends who are socialist, communist, democrat and independent. we can all carry on spirited debates. |
Anonymous
| There is a lot of aggression on the part of these right-wingers. It would not be the 'type' of person I would want in my life, not just the politics but the heavy-handed, mean spirited way they express those beliefs. (Lots of shocking posts on FB from people I thought were normal.) |
Anonymous
| so the incredible aggression from the left in Wisconsin is NOT mean spirited or scary? please, take a step back and get some perspective. |