mac_in_tosh
Site Champ
- Posts
- 678
- Reaction score
- 1,306
Recently I was doing some searches to try to reconnect with friends from school. I came across someone who I spent a lot of time with - we had the same major and would meet for dinner in the cafeteria almost every night, along with others in our group. His Facebook page, however, indicated he was a Trump guy and that dissuaded me from trying to contact him.
Just to be clear, I'm liberal and he was always conservative. We had many discussions over dinner about current affairs, disagreeing often, but it didn't affect our friendship. But conservatism is one thing and Trumpism is another, vastly different thing.
If you want smaller government, less regulation and reduced spending, we can debate that. But if you support a nasty bully, a pathological liar and incompetent fool whose handling of the virus resulted in large numbers of casualties and someone who stirred up a crowd to go to the Capitol building to disrupt a Constitutionally mandated procedure over a lie about the election being stolen, then any attempt at friendship would be futile.
Just wondering what your experience has been.
Just to be clear, I'm liberal and he was always conservative. We had many discussions over dinner about current affairs, disagreeing often, but it didn't affect our friendship. But conservatism is one thing and Trumpism is another, vastly different thing.
If you want smaller government, less regulation and reduced spending, we can debate that. But if you support a nasty bully, a pathological liar and incompetent fool whose handling of the virus resulted in large numbers of casualties and someone who stirred up a crowd to go to the Capitol building to disrupt a Constitutionally mandated procedure over a lie about the election being stolen, then any attempt at friendship would be futile.
Just wondering what your experience has been.