Reply #34: I really feel sorry for the zealots on either side [View All]

[pipi_k]

who end relationships and alienate others based on politics.


If your former friends were that crazy to see you as an "enemy" because of your beliefs, then you have my sympathy.

It can hurt to be cut off like that, but really, if they're that nuts, what can a person expect from them?


In that spirit, I also say that if zealotry is something we expect from the other side, then it's not something we should expect from this side. We call ourselves "Liberals". "Progressives". We tout ourselves as being "tolerant".

Yet some of us here have no trouble at all ending friendships/relationships with people whose political leanings differ markedly from our own. The person in question might be a perfectly decent person in all other ways, but once they start quoting Beck or Palin or some other RW nut, that's it. It's all politics from there and screw the results. That person has NO redeeming qualities, it seems.

Anyway, if that's what happened to you from people on the other side, I'm sorry.

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