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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave your feelings changed any on Trump voting friends/family?
I still cant and wont talk politics with them.
I still dont understand.
I still cant forgive them.
You?
Croney
(4,657 posts)Now I know you cant fix stupid.
HAB911
(8,867 posts)not before
Cosmocat
(14,559 posts)I had resigned myself to all of it LONG before the moron came down the escalator.
I absolutely know a fair amount of people with no real value that I have totally removed myself from.
But, there are a LOT of people I know who are otherwise decent, honorable people who are full out conservatives. It is a little harder now, but I still am not close to blowing up good friendships or acquaintances, much less relations with the inlaws.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I have relatives who were obnoxious about their right wing politics before. Ever notice how they bring it up, assuming all agree? But now I don't want to hear it any more.
Mike Nelson
(9,944 posts)...I do talk to them. They are more of the "shake up the system" type. They don't follow politics closely... the watch FOX "News" for the personality, legs and cleavage. The didn't like Congress, Obama, Hillary or Jeb Bush. They liked Bernie because he was new - to them, of course; they'd never heard of him before 2016. I think they feel guilty about supporting Trump, but don't want to accept blame.
Girard442
(6,066 posts)My GF keeps encouraging me to make contact. She's a sweetheart and in many ways a better person than I am and more often right than me about people stuff, but I just can't envision any outcome that doesn't make the situation worse.
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)But Im ready with the facts if they bring up anything positive about the idiot.
hlthe2b
(102,131 posts)is married to a Trump supporter. Every once in a while a RW/Trumpist talking point used to bubble out during conversations before the election, though she never pushed it and I tended to let it drop. I know she knows how I stand on Trump et al and I tend to think (despite RW tendencies) that she did not vote for Trump--(probably didn't vote at all), but it feels like EVERYTHING and EVERY topic lately feeds back to Trump. She and her dog frequently hike with me and my own doggy girl, so sometimes the silences are embarrassing.
I will always be polite, but my contempt for her husband is very hard to mask.
I don't know how we forget anytime soon...
RobinA
(9,886 posts)about it. I have a friend that I haven't talked politics with since the WMD fiasco. Family members and I similarly stay away from the subject. I have had to block some Trumpinista family members from my Facebook, not so much because of what they say but because of the trash they drag in.
CousinIT
(9,225 posts)Haven't talked to him since. Typical: HE thinks I owe HIM an apology!
WHAT. THE. FUCK. FOR?
I. DIDN'T. VOTE. FOR. TRUMP. HE DID!
Dumbass owes ME an apology and he owes the rest of the COUNTRY an apology. (I won't hold my breath waiting for THAT).
Pfft.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and if they did, they have the good sense to keep it to themselves when around me