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In reply to the discussion: I can not have a friend who is a Republican.. [View all]Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I have a couple of friends I've known for near 25 years. When I first met them they were to the left of me ( They were center-left union democrats and I was more of less an Eisenhower republican ) but we had common opinions on a wide range of issues and shared hobby interests. The past half dozen years ( around the time both retired ) they each began moving rightward and now they are both hard line republicans and I ditched the party years ago as it moved rightward.
They're both ingnoramuses in that they are not well read or well versed on many subjects they have very strong opinions about. It's getting harder and harder to spend time around them. One on one, I can usually skate around politics by "fogging" just to prevent an argument, and one of them is less apt to bring up politics. If both of them are around me they both start babbling right wing nonsense and it's insufferable to be around them. You practically need a 3-ring circus to distract them enough to prevent them from bringing up politics.