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In reply to the discussion: I can not have a friend who is a Republican.. [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)Not necessarily political views, but I have found that with people whose view on punctuality differs radically from mine, I simply end up not suggesting things we can do together. For me, the stress of having to wait 10, 20, 30 minutes because they don't care about being punctual is so great that i cannot enjoy what we had planned on doing. Say we are doing something time sensitive, like going to a movie - for me, having to wait and maybe disturb the people in the theater that were there on time, causes such a stress reaction, I am wrecked for days afterwards. Therefore, I simply do not become friends with certain people. We may have mutual friends, many mutual friends, in fact, but I do not make any friendship overtures towards them at all.
I imagine many feel the same way about Republicans. I have republican friends, but those are Eisenhower republicans, who are willing to listen in discussions, and who have demonstrated their willingness to change their minds when confronted with facts. In other words, they're the kind of republicans excoriated as RINOs in the current party. If they had been the type to close their ears, or who reverted back to the Beck/Hannity/Limbaugh talking points when my back was turned, I would have had a problem with being as close friends with them as I am.