Do you have irreconcilable political differences with your family members?

Well if you are separating family and friends then I also have friends who are also BLM supporters. One in particular is a pretty vocal one and has been in jail on a number of occasions for carrying out some of that degenerate nonsense in real life. He was arrested for being a knucklehead during a riot a few years ago from one of those police brutality fiasco's. Known them for decades, we went to high school together. He's still a friend, I visit and hang out with him every time I go home to visit.

He's more of an actual idiot than he is the self proclaimed political activist he believes himself to be, but he's my buddy still.

I wasn't exaggerating when I made the statement I made before. I really don't care very much about someones ideology...Whether they are family or friends...

 

One of them does, well he did when we were teenagers. I think he's probably calmed down at this point as he grew the hell up hopefully.

But no I didn't know that when I met any of them. We were childhood friends, things like that aren't exactly subjects you talk about as kids. It was more like what's the coolest Thundercat and whatnot...But as we all grew up yeah a few of them started to go off their rocker. When we became teenagers is when my one buddy took on the whole Black Panther persona type ordeal and went around as some idiotic radical activist fighting against the injustices of the "white man". He was more of the butt of all of our jokes than anything else, we just thought he was stupid and made fun of him all the time whenever he spouted off Malcom X crap every 5 mins when we were eating lunch every day. He was still our buddy.

In regards to the underlying question that I believe is being implied. Would I befriend a new person who I knew "hated whitey" beforehand? It would depend on whether he had the same hobbies that I do and if we got along. "Hating whitey" isn't an automatic disqualifier if that's what you're asking. I'll think you're an idiot and ask that we don't discuss your hatred of whitey around me when we hang out because I don't want to hear that nonsense. But if you like fishing and beer as much as I do and I like your personality and want to go fishing and have a few beers then I'll likely oblige as long as you agree to shut the hell up about black power or whatever.

 

"Tolerant" is the key word here.

Both major sides of the aisle, Liberals/Progressive and Conservatives, always try to sling that word around whenever it's convenient for their own particular ideology.

Liberals preach tolerance as one of the main talking points of their belief system, yet they are intolerant of those who are not tolerant in the specific way they see fit. Conservatives are intolerant of Progressives because of a perceived hypocrisy of them not being tolerant in regards to intolerance.

In layman's terms, Progressives say Conservatives are not tolerant enough and Conservatives say that Progressives are not tolerant because they don't accept that not everybody will be tolerant of their particular viewpoints.

I on the other hand am tolerant of intolerance. It's pretty difficult to call oneself "tolerant" when you are not tolerant of intolerance and tolerant of views that do not coincide with your own.

At the end of the day, millions of Americans believe that YOUR ideology, which I believe to be traditional Conservatism, is based on hatred. And not only are you tolerant of said "hatred", you enforce it by voting as a Republican.

Is that actually true of you? Of course not in your own mind, but it is true of you in the eyes of millions of Americans.

Who is actually "right"? Nobody, it's all personal beliefs which is why I don't put much stake in anyone's personal ideologies.

 

I don't hate anybody who hasn't actually done anything absolutely terrible to me. There are people in this world that I truly hate, the person who murdered a family member of mine recently counts among them. But I don't hate anyone for holding a particular ideology. I don't particularly like certain ideologies and I feel some are completely detrimental to America but that's not enough for me to just disown somebody because they think like that, or refuse to get to know them on a personal level.

I hold some Liberal views, I hold some Conservative views, and I hold views from all ranges of the spectrum depending on the topic. Out of the two major US Parties I feel that the Republican Party is better for the US than the current Democrat one. I feel that the far Left Progressive takeover of the Democrat Party is terrible and a huge chunk of the Progressive ideology would be severely detrimental to the United States. I don't hate those folks, nor do I hold any ire towards them strong enough to refuse to interact with them. But I just think they are wrong and wrong in a massive way and if the Republican Party held a super majority in Congress and held the Presidency I believe the nation would be an overall better place going forward. Even though I don't agree with everything Republicans believe, not even close, I think it is the much lesser of two evils when the Progressive Democrats are the only other option.

Individual personalities matter much more to me than political ideology. Common courtesy, manners, and respect are what I value in folks and seek out when looking for friends. I will invite to dinner a well mannered and respectful Bernie Sanders supporter over a rude and no manner having military war vet Trump supporter every single time. Even though the latter way more closely aligns with my ideology than the former.

At the end of the day I care way more about who you are as an individual person and your personality over what you believe politically. I don't even know what quite a few of my long time friends believe ideologically, we've never asked one another because we don't care. We enjoy each others company when hanging out and that's the only thing that actually matters in the grand scheme of things.