Absolutely. People "mesh" for various reasons. It doesn't have to be political. I would never expect someone else to share ALL of my opinions and I wouldn't associate with anyone that believes s/he should mesh with all of mine. Both, my parents and in-laws, are divided politically in their respective homes. They manage by just not talking about politics.
My husband and I best friends have very different political views than we do. Has no impact on our friendship.
I'm one of the few Conservatives in an extremely Liberal field and I absolutely am friends with most of my colleagues. The few I don't get along with - well, no one else gets along with them much either and political affiliation has nothing to do with why in all instances. I suspect people who WOULDN'T accept the political differences of their friends are likely people you might not wanna be friends with for reasons that have nothing to do with politics. I've said before that intellectual diversity is just as important as any other kind - and that when you have someone who can't accept the philosophical differences of others, it's intellectual bigotry.
Great! In USA 2020 most people can not tolerate political differences. Me an d my parents also have political differences, but we are best friends.
I have no problem just not talking politics with people; there are other things to talk about. However, I do find that my liberal friends have trouble not bringing up Trump (TDS) in every conversation. I don't bring up politics, but I do have enough self respect to speak my own mind if someone else is going to. So honestly, I do find myself not spending as much time with these as I have in the past, before politics became so highly charged, simply because I don't want to argue with them.
If you can't get passed partisanship and let it effect long term friendships. You weren't worth bothering with in the first place. I was best man for an Anti Trumper because friendship is bigger than politics.
Yes, of course up to a point. When my niece, that has known me all of her life, calls me racist for not kneeling at the feet of Black Lives Matter, she is out of my Will, but I will remain cordial.
Some of the people I love most are on the complete opposite ideological spectrum of me. I do not talk politics if I can help it.
I can be friends with political opponents as long as they are cordial and friendly. I don't expect people to agree with me 100% of the time. My family members don't even agree with me 100% of the time. When people start name calling and insulting me, I usually leave them alone.
The same with me. Being neither Liberal nor Conservative it is hard to find people who share all my views. I can tolerate political differences but not abuse.
Of course. Just don't discuss politics at a multigenerational family get together. or...just keep it to a minimum.
I said maybe, because I would have normally said YES in all caps, but my friends and relatives that are liberals have lost their minds, you cannot even talk to them anymore, they never answer a question, the response to everything and anything is.........I hate Trump. Nothing else. They have nothing else.
"No." Things are now so bad in this country that those of the hyperliberal Left have emerged as a genuine, 'clear and present danger' to the very foundations and life of the United States of America. Today, in June 2020, they proudly stand for everything that sincerely HATES this country and everything that made it great -- back when it WAS great.... Anyone who supports destroying the United States, our Constitution, our very EXISTENCE, cannot be my "friend". At one point or another in the lives of many of us, we took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC! The oath never expired....
