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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI've realized an unpleasant truth.
When you're listening to your friends discussing politics and you start to wonder what it would have been like to be Jewish in 1930's Germany -- it's time to get new friends.
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I've realized an unpleasant truth. (Original Post)
Jerry442
Oct 2016
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cwydro
(51,308 posts)1. If these are your friends and it took you this long to catch on...
Well, hell...good luck with that.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)3. Cut them a lot of slack, hoping things weren't as bad as I feared. How often does that end well? NT
cwydro
(51,308 posts)4. No comment. nt
Skittles
(153,202 posts)6. I hear you
Raster
(20,998 posts)7. Jerry, Denial is not just a river in Egypt...
...If it walks like a fascist and talks like a fascist...
elleng
(131,148 posts)2. Sad.
blm
(113,101 posts)5. Profound
really
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)8. You're better off alone.
I have 3 good friends, and I'm lucky to have them. A lot of people can't even say that. It's good to be selective these days or you just don't know who or what you'll end up in a situation with.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)9. We'll be your new friends!
I'm sure you can find some of us in person where you are. And you could always head to a Hillary campagin headquarters in your area. I'm sure there'd be new friends to discover there.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)10. I'm literally years ahead of you.
Back in '07-'08 as friends, relatives and acquaintances revealed themselves to be teabaggers, I cut all ties with them. Those ties remain cut.