Have you ever lost a frienship over differing political views??

[gbate]

I have a good friend that I've gotten to know over the past couple years. Her blind support of this "war" and of W are starting to push me over the edge. She continually goes on about how her darling children run up to soldiers to "thank them for protecting our country." She knows how strongly I feel about this.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Well, I think I have......

A lady I used to do business with and I have drifted apart......

She retired, and sold her business to someone a lot more liberal...

And then I started getting a lot of right-wing emails from her....

A lot of crap....

I finally sent her the appropriate Snopes pages and told her to check her stories there before blindly sending them on...

Haven't heard too much from her since then....

Too bad, cause she was smart and funny...

:shrug:

[crim son]

2. I haven't exactly lost the friendship, but I have lost respect for

one or two people, which has diminished our friendship.

[trof]

6. Same here. He was best man at my wedding.

In our 'salad days' we were very close.

I told him we just can't talk politics if we're going to stay 'friends', but I really don't much like being with him any more.

He's just clueless about all current topics.
"They haven't 'proved' global warming."
He doesn't like Bush much...now, but he voted for him twice.
"Well...the Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans."

I've tried to bring him along, slowly, in our conversations.
But it's just useless.
sad

[AirmensMom]

3. Yes.

And we were never able to get back to where we had been.

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. yes

I really did enjoy her company .We enjoyed the same books , hobbies (birding and gardening)She was smart and funny.
Too bad she was a political and moral idiot

[Ariana Celeste]

5. not completely

but we aren't as close as we once were.

[trof]

7. Used to be a friend. Till the e-mails started.

He claims to be an 'independent'.
I call bullshit.

He sends me all the dem bashing right wing bs.
Or used to.

I would, of course, send the snopes rebuttals and 'reply all'.
He's too damn stupid to send his crap bcc.

Finally, I replied just to him.
Something like, "Look, Jim. You know what my politics are and how I feel about Bush. Why are you still sending me this stuff? Are you TRYING to piss me Off? It ain't working. I'm not pissed. I just wonder why you seem to keep trying to get some kind of rise out of me.
Really.
What's your purpose?"

His reply:
"I'll remove you from my e-mail list."

Thanks.

[QMPMom]

8. Yes and it wasn't pretty. n/t

[Left Is Write]

9. Not really, but I've drifted apart from people whose views are very different from mine.

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. Yep

[liberaltrucker]

11. If an ex-wife is considered a friend, then yep!

:rofl:

[rbnyc]

12. Yes.

Here's the first one I thought of. I was kind of casually dating this very cute guy. After a week or so, I thought it was about time we had sex. He didn't want to use a condom. I told him there was no way I would I ever have sex with him without a condom. This lead to a discussion about STD's and unwanted pregnancies, and abortion. Turned out he was anti-choice. I couldn't believe that he was both anti-choice and anti-condom. OMG! I lost my voice screaming at this male bimbo nut job. Anyway, that was the end of that.

[mopinko]

13. can't talk to my brother

or a few of my sisters, either.

[Connonym]

14. It was no small matter in my divorce

there were other issues of course but really all of it boiled down to that he was a republican for the same reason he was an asshole -- selfish, greedy, prejudiced, bully, ditto-head, paranoid, and so on. I'm totally convinced that there's some sort of sociopathic disorder that exists in the people who still support W and the war. I'll never, ever date a republican again even though I know that in my part of the country it really narrows the pool of potentials. I'd totally rather be alone.

[mentalsolstice]

15. Yes! Best childhood friend!

We were inseparable during childhood. Coming from a "problem" family you would think she would be liberal. We grew apart, when my family moved at 13 years old, and lost each other for many years, and then regrouped. It turned out her in-laws lived in the same metro area as I did. Because my SO and I refused to be a part of the "white flight" and move to the 'burbs, and we were "living together in sin"...she could not visit us even though she's within 10 miles on most holidays. They convinced her that we live in an unsafe area (because it's urban and within the city proper) and we were sinful for living together. When we did make it legal, they objected because liquor was served at the reception. Oddly enough, it was her parents (they had their faults, but they had big hearts), among other influences, that impacted my decision to go progressive...tough stories, I won't go into it here.

However, I will always love her. And after so many years of not knowing where she was, I'm glad to know where she is now...I know she's safe and healthy, perhaps misguided, but I'm at peace knowing she has a career, a roof over her head, and food for her and her children.

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Well, my boss hung up on me today because I wouldn't agree wit

him about our governor; and refused to cede to him because he is older. It's all good. It's why I tell him I never talk politics with him. :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. Several.

[depakid]

18. Yes

Some years back I made a decision to keep Republicans out of my life. Partially this was the result of having been backstabbed (and/or observed dishonesty and hypocrisy) one too mant times.

[Dervill Crow]

19. Damn near made me chuck my marriage.

Mr. Blue thought my obsession with politics was irrational. Funny thing is, now that the corporate media is starting to cover facts I've known for years, he actually has the gall to inform me of things he has discovered about *, et al, like it's news. I alternate between being amused and enraged by it.

Ooooh, is that annoying.

[MikeH]

20. I ended a long time friendship in 2005

I have mentioned ending this friendship a number of times on DU, and have put it in my journal several times, including recently in one of BobcatJH's threads.

I first met him at one of my jobs in the mid 1970's. He is a fundamentalist Christian, but he never fit the worst stereotypes of people of his persuasion; he was always somebody I felt comfortable talking with in sharing about both my faith and my doubts. He accepted my becoming unhappy with Christianity and parting company with the faith.

I was a little bothered in 2000 when he supported *, i.e. anybody but Gore. He is very strongly against abortion. I tried to accept it at the time, before it was obvious how bad * really was.

I was very distressed when I got together with my friend in October 2004 and he said, without any hesitation or any sense of struggle, that he would be voting for * a second time. He felt that our actions in Iraq were the right thing for us to do. One thing he said that especially bothered me was that he thought it was OK that we did not find the supposed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because intelligence is not an exact science.

In early 2005 I sent my friend an e-mail letting him know how I felt, and also letting him know that I needed to reevaluate our friendship. After an exchange of a few e-mails my friend and I mutually agreed to end our friendship. We did so on good terms, and agreed we could have fond memories of our past friendship, and we exchanged best wishes for each other's future.