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Have your feelings changed any on Trump voting friends/family? (Original Post) Funtatlaguy Oct 2017 OP
Yes. At first I thought I could reason with them. Croney Oct 2017 #1
I will change when they apologize HAB911 Oct 2017 #2
No Cosmocat Oct 2017 #3
I have avoided them treestar Oct 2017 #4
No, but... Mike Nelson Oct 2017 #5
I haven't had any face time with family since before the election. Girard442 Oct 2017 #6
Its only a couple cousins, and so far, we havent discussed it. lkinwi Oct 2017 #7
I have a hard time finding things to talk about with a friend who I am sure hlthe2b Oct 2017 #8
I Don't Talk RobinA Oct 2017 #9
NO! CousinIT Oct 2017 #10
I'm just glad no friends/family voted for him Blue_Tires Oct 2017 #11

Cosmocat

(14,559 posts)
3. No
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 07:50 AM
Oct 2017

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)
4. I have avoided them
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 07:53 AM
Oct 2017

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)
5. No, but...
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 08:09 AM
Oct 2017

...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)
6. I haven't had any face time with family since before the election.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 08:10 AM
Oct 2017

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)
7. Its only a couple cousins, and so far, we havent discussed it.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 08:13 AM
Oct 2017

But I’m ready with the facts if they bring up anything positive about the idiot.

hlthe2b

(102,131 posts)
8. I have a hard time finding things to talk about with a friend who I am sure
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 08:14 AM
Oct 2017

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)
9. I Don't Talk
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 08:31 AM
Oct 2017

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)
10. NO!
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 09:00 AM
Oct 2017

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)
11. I'm just glad no friends/family voted for him
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 09:05 AM
Oct 2017

and if they did, they have the good sense to keep it to themselves when around me

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