I'm sure there will be variety of responses to this one.

I have never, and would never, disown someone as family because of politics.

I would extend that to friends as well.

(08-19-2023 01:36 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  I have never, and would never, disown someone as family because of politics.
I would extend that to friends as well.

Same here. I have had it done to me, but would not do it to anyone else.

I don't have any family that needs disowned.

No.


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I don't talk politics with my family. Don't really do it with friends either. Doesn't seem fun.

My sister and I are very close, and I'm also somewhat close to her daughter.

Both of them are lefties. Not progressives, but way left of me. Mostly on one issue, abortion, but they only listen to left wing media. My sister thinks Rachel Maddow is not biased. She is far enough left that she just let it slip that both of them will move to Scotland if Trump wins. And she was serious.

My niece is engaged to a man from Scotland, and she was indoctrinated in a California university 25 years ago.

The only way we survive is to not talk politics, but neither of us would disown the other. Although moving to Scotland would basically do the same thing. I doubt she would do it when push came to shove, though, but she is absolutely Orange Man Bad. Worse than AM, lol. And she thinks the Dems don't do anything wrong.

I have a decent amount of conservative friends, mainly over 50ish, that are also Orange man bad.

I haven't and doubt the vast majority here will say they have.

Most people I know fit mostly or completely in 1 of 4 groups:

1. Anti-establishment Trumpy Republicans.

2. More traditional Republicans.

3. Younger progressive Dems that don't really like Biden and are more left on economics.

4. Older MSNBC Biden bot Democrats that tends to care more about social issues and don't understand why the people in group #3 don't enthusiastically showing up to vote Biden.

Group #3 gets a bad rap, but group #4 easily takes first place for being the most self-righteous and being the most likely to attribute political differences to immorality, which is what causes political differences to mess up personal relationships. People may not agree, but that's my experience.

(08-19-2023 01:36 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  I have never, and would never, disown someone as family because of politics.

I would extend that to friends as well.

Agreed. I think its ridiculous. People are more than their political beliefs.
We have some very different viewpoints in our family.

Politics no. Being an all around *******, yes.

(08-19-2023 02:25 PM)TripleA Wrote:  My sister and I are very close, and I'm also somewhat close to her daughter.

Both of them are lefties. Not progressives, but way left of me. Mostly on one issue, abortion, but they only listen to left wing media. My sister thinks Rachel Maddow is not biased. She is far enough left that she just let it slip that both of them will move to Scotland if Trump wins. And she was serious.

My niece is engaged to a man from Scotland, and she was indoctrinated in a California university 25 years ago.

The only way we survive is to not talk politics, but neither of us would disown the other. Although moving to Scotland would basically do the same thing. I doubt she would do it when push came to shove, though, but she is absolutely Orange Man Bad. Worse than AM, lol. And she thinks the Dems don't do anything wrong.

One of my nieces was talking about moving to New Zealand in 2016, but her very conservative cousins talked her off the ledge.

I haven't but my clan has a liberal wing that disowned all the rest of us. Haven't talked to any of them since about, well, 2016.

I started disowning my old friends whom we partied with a lot after seeing my Compa's facebook posts. It would make me mad because I couldn't believe he could be so dumb even if he is, but that's another story. He called a few times and I would ghost him but he insisted and I finally relented by returning his call but I texted him instead. When we didn't use to talk politics we were entirely fine but me being me I would bring up the subject even knowing that it would create tension. I've since learned my lesson, I don't talk about politics or religion, another subject where he is completely lost, example: he prays to his mother.

I had a really bad argument with my SIL who is very, very Democrat. I stopped talking about politics with her and we get along fine like that. She has proven to be a Godsend in the caring of my wife when she comes. They talk about girl things and on the days that she comes if we don't order out she'll make the lunch for all of us. She's an okay cook and on some dishes she hits it out of the ball park like with her enchiladas. One day she cooked some ribeyes but they were wasted because they didn't taste like ribeyes should. An expensive meat with a D grade. I like it because she takes care of her and gives me a break. I don't want to offend her with politics so I "try" not to talk about politics and again religion.

In EP you have to refrain from politics unless you know the person you're talking with shares your political views, because everyone it seems is a Democrat and in case we ever have a civil war you don't want to be the next casualty, LOL.

Blood is thicker than politics. There are people in my family more left of me but I can’t ever imagine disowning them ever because one day none of that will matter

There is no reason to disown someone over politics although I’ve heard of other people doing that — typically it’s rabid leftists doing that against someone who liked W.Bush or Trump at the time.

(08-19-2023 03:34 PM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  Blood is thicker than politics. There are people in my family more left of me but I can’t ever imagine disowning them ever because one day none of that will matter

There is no reason to disown someone over politics although I’ve heard of other people doing that — typically it’s rabid leftists doing that against someone who liked W.Bush or Trump at the time.

To some on the Left, politics is their religion. My Lefty "friends" can't tell me one thing they agree with Democrats on, but just know they don't like Republicans. I laugh at them.

No filth in my fam

(08-19-2023 04:37 PM)shere khan Wrote:  No filth in my fam

not only is the entire stink clan pro-red, but I'm trying to come up with any democrat I call a friend ... oops, just remembered one that recently moved to PDX ... he finally found his 'home'...

If you have friends or family that stopped speaking to you because the TV told them to, they don’t deserve a second chance. They will always do it again.

No. In the Clinton years, I was a Dem, and thought the fact that he lied for getting a BJ was BS, but the economy was good. My Mom and I gently fought all the time, because she couldn't understand, but we never let go of our love for our relationship as Mom and Son. In the end politics didn't matter, especially when you are a man holding your Mom's hand as her soul leaves this world.

After the economy collapsed and then we had BO as a president, I became a staunch Rep. I actually have a dear friend who is a Lib and sometimes we piss people off in fake fights on FB. She's a hardcore Lib, and I'm a hard core conservitive now. We see the rage and on IM we laugh, because we like and even love each other not because of politics, but for who we are. If the rest of the world would just understand, we are not politics...just humans, the world would be a better world.