Most thankfully that I have come into contact with are very liberal.

I'm ignoring them, and hanging with the others, the majority.

I keep her around for laughs.

There were 3 of us who hung out in High school. We protested against the war. One of the 4 students killed in Ohio State lived across the street from our school. We were part of a school walkout in honor of his death.
Two of us are still involved and proud liberals but the third in our group became a very right wing republican. We looked up about a year ago. All trump all the time on his Facebook page.
Needless to say we did not reach out to contact him.

Some haven't surprised me all that much, but others have. The result is always one of two outcomes though: either I "unfollow" them or I "defriend" them. I realize there's more to life than politics, but this issue runs so deep and is so consequential that if your ideology allows you to be an apologist for Trump in any way, you're no longer someone I care to be friends with.

One of my three sisters is a RightWinger, and of course there are times when we have to be together, and it's tough to be around her. Then again, she always was annoying.

It was an unrequited crush, at the time, but he was someone I never forgot. Anyway, he lived in the San Diego area and I had family in LA and SD, so we met up. Things went really well, at first. Conversations were more nostalgic and, admittedly, superficial. We kept in close contact. I'd be out on the coast several times a year and we definitely were growing closer. He even became fast friends with my brother and sister in law.

As time went on, conversations became deeper and more personal and the more he got acquainted with my bro and SIL, and reacquainted with me, the more he let his facade slip. It slowly but surely became obvious that he was a condescending far-right wing asshole, so I cut ties. He stayed in touch with my bro and SIL - for a while, but they even had to walk away because the more he got to know people, the more confrontational he became.

I'll give him credit for keeping his totally offensive ideology hidden for as long as he did. Especially given that I wear my politics on my sleeve. His apartment held no clues. His recreational hobby (surfing) seemed to indicate he had remained much the 'cool' guy he was in high school.

Hard to spot at first, but the truth will out.

Neither surprised me. What did surprise me was two high school acquaintances who are liberal. Also, pleased to reconnect with my grade school best friend, who is also liberal.

You wouldn't believe how fucked up northern N.J. Is

I got disgusted with all of the fawning over bush II 10 years ago.

I do not associate with Nazis.

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and Anti-Trump. A lot who didn't are Trumpers, although a surprising few are not. On both sides there are a few exceptions.

The ones who didn’t go to college and still live in the area are often tr**p trash. Some are ok though for sure - definitely the minority in this category.

The ones who tried to do better are mostly better, but some are your basic selfish republicans that can’t be fixed - especially notable here was Bekah Mercer.

I could describe the "symptoms", but since it's a combination of factors, listing a few discreet tells wouldn't be all that helpful (this being the internet, people would see the single word they disagreed with and challenge me on it.)

After all, we're a bunch of 60 year old (mostly) white guys. However, we steer clear of politics in team emails and at tournaments. It's enough of a challenge to develop and maintain team chemistry without adding the toxicity of politics to the mix. I'm pretty sure our two African American members wouldn't feel as welcome.

I don't do Facebook. Tried in briefly, but it started taking too much of my time and there was a reason why I hadn't seen some people in 30 years who started reaching out to me.

One post I wrote on a Saturday morning and went out when I got that night my friends had gotten into a big sparring match with her, I missed out on the fun.

In western PA back in the early 60's,
who loved JFK,
hated the Vietnam War,
now love Trump.

Maybe they got some bad 'weed'?

I guess they are what they are!! BUT NOT MY FRIEND ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, it's happened, and no, I didn't have to ask them.

Went to a small Catholic high school. Many of my former classmates are Rethuglicans because of abortions. Thankfully my two closest friends have remained staunch liberals.

I do not let a single one of their lying posts go unanswered.

politics with them.

2 reconnected with me the last few years. Both acquired their nut job politics by finding nut job religion. One wasn't too much of a surprise. The other was quite a party hound back in the day.

in the planning of two high school reunions. I am surprised at how many trumpers there are. His class is worse!

The ones who are less educated are the trumpers. I won't associate with them, and I tell them why.

This guy is also an immigrant and did like pointing out that if Trump's policies were enacted, then his family would have been rejected for refugee status. He was born in Greece and came to the US around 1955 after an earthquake devastated his family's island. His uncle in San Francisco sponsored their family to migrate to the US. (Trump's so-called "chain migration&quot

in emails being passed prior to the reunion one of the class went off with a pro Trump diatribe.
This was followed by a bunch of emails saying "count me out."

Don't really know what happened after that. I never had any intention of going and had tried to get off that email list forever. After that diatribe and some resulting cancellations, I never heard from them again.

A friend of mine, we worked together 20+ years ago as young adults in Atlanta. Wife & I moved back to Atl in '16 & we started hanging out a few times a month with him and his 2nd wife. Although I had never put much thought into it, I knew his stance on certain issues (gun control, pro choice, etc.), so it absolutely floored me when one evening I casually through out "Well, you guys DID vote for Hillary, right?" They both looked at each other, giggled nervously and said, "Oh hell no, she's a crook"...

I never imagined that they, well at least he(college-educated, liberal-thinking, etc. ) would have voted for Drumpf. I mean it just flat-out floored me. They saw my reaction and said, "What?" I told them, "You believed all that bs?? You drank the koolaid??? You've been had by f'ing trolls, you realize that, don't you?"

Since then. I cannot shake the resentment and disappointment. I can't look at him the same way.

But almost all of my maternal line cousins are R's...Orange County (CA) raised, all of them. This second cousin is the worst though. Dunno about old HS classmates. I'm not friends with any of them.

I grew up in a conservative part of Appalachia. My high school classmates tend to be Trump supporters now but a significant portion have turned out to be liberals, especially if they moved away.

If they spew bigoted nonsense, I unfriend them and have even reported some who called for violence like driving over peaceful protestors or shooting them.

I'd be amazed if not.

In my case it was a friend from childhood who was even a college roommate. Lost touch with her just as soon as I got the damage deposit back, and never cared enough to look for her beyond asking her sister one time where she was living. She tried to drag me into the shit show she was making of her life--complete with ripping off money from her "dates" while they were passed out--and misc other mildly larcenous activities.

She appeared outta nowhere right around election day. She'd been in my rear view mirror for a long time, and given her behavior in the time right after the election, she was relegated back there again. Stupid cow damn near started a war with my current friends with her abusive and offensively stated love for the orange anus, then tried to play it off like we'd been pals for SO LONG, how could I ever allow anybody to call her out... She was a shitty room mate, an even shittier friend, and she got booted out of my life a second time without much angst.

I got no time for that in my life now. As one of my friends says, "I'm over 50, fresh outta f***s to give, and I'm not apologizing for it to anybody."




Laura

I couldn't take it anymore. I think the amount of time I spend on there now can be equaled to the amount of times I've walked on the moon.

facebook is a cesspool.

Thank god we don’t see them all that often.

I know lots of people who have subscribed or converted to the Fox News cult.

it ain't pretty.

brilliant graphic! Mahalo JimGin

I've had to purge a bunch of former grade school and high school classmates after they were posting racist, bigoted, Nazi, trump-loving crap. I went to school in Philadelphia, but my area of the city seems much more red now.

I unfollow them. I do have a friend who I have known for 45 years, he is somewhat of an asshole. Never married, socially awkward, always tried to show that he was too smart to be a trend follower. He drove an American Motors car rather than a Ford or Chevy. He voted for Nader “to send a message”. And so on, in many areas of his life. And when he told me he voted for Trump I quit talking to him. I can’t forgive him, or this country. Ever.

One of them is a woman I met when we were only 8, and we were best friends thru high school. I went to college (bachelor of science in nursing) and moved away about 7 years later when I joined the Air Force nurse corps. She stayed local, and married the first of her 3 husbands, probably a couple of years after HS graduation. She eventually went to a bible "college," and she and her third husband teach classes at their large fundamentalist church. I was rather shocked when I saw some FB posts of hers talking about "libtards." I am guessing she does not have any idea she is talking about me.

Another classmate posts all sorts of "libtard, Dumbocrat, Obummer, 'Lock her up' " stuff, and many people whose names I recognize post comments agreeing with him.

Obviously, here on DU, we say some very harsh things about Republicans. I would never do that on a public forum like FB. I do have an account, but I next-to-never put anything on it. I typically just read items from folks known to me from one venue or another. I don't comment or even "like" postings.

2019 should be our class 50th reunion. I have gone to the 20th, 30th, and 40th, and enjoyed them. I am seriously considering not going to the 50th, as I do not think I would feel welcome were my political and philosophical views to become known. I find this sad.

...put Trump in the White House.”
That or something just as bad at least once a week from 2 of my wife’s sisters.

I have been shocked by the number of people I otherwise would consider "normal" who think Trump is just misunderstood. What it usually boils down to when you press them is they are benefitting financially from him being president (at least for the short term), so they are willing to overlook everything else.

Most of these folks are no longer friends, but remain instead acquaintances.

Right of Trump. Sympathetic to Trump. Brexiteer. Anti Pole. Left school at 16. Didn't sit any exams.

She seemed so pleasant and we had a couple of lunch dates. Politics never came up but she was so down to earth I just guessed that she had to be liberal minded. A week later she invited me over to her brothers house for dinner and that's when it all fell apart. He stared by saying Obama is the reason the Muslims are taking over Europe and that pretty soon we will all be speaking Spanish unless Trump builds a wall. My friend from school started to agree with him and said she was so happy we had a natural born citizen in the White House. I politely stood up and told them I had to leave. She called me later on that night and asked me if we could go out the next day. I told her that I was a liberal democrat and I thought best we should end the relationship. She was pissed and told me that if she knew that I was a socialist that she would never have gone out with me. I have a new motto, "Life is too short to be hanging out with ignorant people."

I would prefer to not have to have awkward and meaningless "hi how are you how have you been" conversations with people I haven't seen in over 20 years and didn't like back then.

right after the election.

I grew up in Waukesha, WI, which has apparently turned into Trump Central.

the lesson pretty quickly back in 2009 when I signed up and put my high school name on my profile for some unknown reason. I hated high school, I did not have many friends, and was pretty miserable all four years until I finally went away to college and found my tribe (many of whom are still close friends of mine).

Yet suddenly high school people were coming out of the woodwork to friend me. At first I was like "oh, wow, maybe everyone has matured and is looking to reconnect to show how far we've all come." And there were a few folks like that. But the vast majority were either just as small-minded as they were back then, or were living groundhog day back in our home town. Or both.

I took my high school name off my profile within 24 hours of adding it. So I thankfully didn't have to suffer their Trump cheerleading.

Russian bot stuff. Some of it I have done a Snopes search & sent them the facts, but I have since given up, they are the 30%

It's one of the reasons I didn't attend my most recent class reunion.

The guy didn't end up finishing the year (at our school, anyway)

I see him on Facebook occasionally. As in not even yearly.