Are you still hanging on to MAGA family and friends?

[NameAlreadyTaken]

Do you still believe there is such thing as "a good person who happened to vote for Trump?"

[BoRaGard]

1. Time and chance

etc. etc. etc.

[Hotler]

2. In the spirit of bipartisanship, shouldn't we?

[LizBeth]

8. Truth and fact doesn't matter to rwer. So no, no we should not. Bipartisanship cant be done

if the other side is dishonest. Right?

[Hotler]

9. Yes. i was being a smartass.

Be well.

[LizBeth]

23. LmFao, lol thanks for the clarification..

[Autumn]

3. Nope. I cut those ties back in November. Anyone who voted for Trump is not

a good person. Any politician who supports any of his appointees and his policies is not a good person.

[Elessar Zappa]

4. I still love my aunt.

But we have to absolutely avoid any talk of current affairs. It’s very limiting.

[Tickle]

5. I am still friends with my family

and don't plan to stop anytime soon but thank you.

[Celerity]

6. I have none. If I ever did, they would have been instantly removed from my life as soon as I found out.

[prodigitalson]

7. Family yes, friends no

[orangecrush]

10. Letting go of some of them

Bye

[NoRethugFriends]

11. no and no

[DeepWinter]

12. I've been roasted for this before

but yes. I have quite a few family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, and just people I know who are Republicans, Democrats, in betweren and flip floppers. We all get along fine. I learned decades ago to not let politics poison my relationships, and it's served me very well.

You need to remember, DU is highly partisan, policy wonks, political news junkies, unusually politically engaged. That's not the norm.

Most people are not that politically engaged. I've traveled and lived around the world. It's the same. Most people think about politics from time to time, but don't live it., reluctantly engage with it. There's even a slice of people that are discusted about it, all of it, every side, and just reject it and live apolitical.

You wonder where the missing 30-40% of the non-voting electoriate is? They're in that last paragraph. DU is not the norm.

[Keepthesoulalive]

35. I'm glad you are in a position where politics doesn't affect your life or your friendships.

Many of us must are trying to survive this onslaught of racism and misogyny. Women are dying because of lack of medical care , people are being rounded up and deported. People of color are preparing to show their papers to prove they were born here. Politics for many of us is a survival mechanism, we know who to avoid and who to vote for.

[Alice B.]

40. During the election, I often asked super-engaged friends and family members...

... what/how much would they know if their only news sources were the local news at 6 and the hometown, small town paper (Facebook aside)?
And they were half-paying attention to the local newscasts and only scanning the paper at best.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

13. My only remaining sibling jumped on the MAGA bandwagon.

When I speak with her again and she asks me how it is going, I will be honest with her with my list of things I am not happy with that is affecting me negatively. She voted for the orange anus mouth. She stated she was "hopeful for the future now that tRump was back in the WH."

She will not be happy with me.

[stillcool]

14. I'm just a human being, doing life

hoping I don't express the self-righteous arrogance I see in others.

[tritsofme]

15. I'm not "hanging on" to anything. Family is family.

[Charging Triceratops]

16. No. They are pariahs. Left damned Facebook, too!

Haven't watched MSM TV news, either.

[Paladin]

17. Nope. This is a life-or-death war, and we need to act accordingly.

Did I enjoy letting trump-friendly family and friends go? Not at all. Am I glad I did so? Absolutely.

[ForgedCrank]

18. Yes and Yes.

I'm a grown adult and my life is about life, not politics.
My family and friends are the most important and valuable things in my life, and I can't imagine cutting ties with them over something as ridiculous as politics.

[Bettie]

20. For me, it isn't about politics

it is about a basic difference in values and morality.

My friends tend to have the same values as I do. My family has chosen to value greed and hate over anything else.

[MLAA]

38. For me its about very specific things not broadly politics for example:

Our and our allies safety - Selecting unqualified cabinet appointees as long as they are loyal to Trump over the constitution, trusting Putin over our own intelligence agencies
Our health and safety - handling of pandemics
Equality - recognizing and honoring that all Americans must be treated equally (LGBT

It’s not about disagreements in how to best handle infrastructure or how to tax. It’s literally about life or death for many.

[Bettie]

19. Nope

My family is all magats. I'm done.

DH's family never brings politics up around us, I am willing to spend limited time with them as long as that continues, though I have reading material along when they get to be too much.

[mitch96]

21. I have one old friend that is a conservative/libertarian. I don't know how he votes b/c we DON'T TALK POLITICS!

Anything else is fair game but politics.. Works for us!!
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[MLAA]

31. My somewhat limited experience, is if they don't say anything about who they voted they either didn't vote or voted for

TSF. With the glaring differences and craziness of the last election/candidates if they don’t speak against I’m pretty sure they are for TSF.

[Jacson6]

22. I never talk religion and/or politics while visiting.

You will just make someone mad.

[phylny]

24. I don't have any.

And I’ve unfriended three people who are MAGAts

[redstatebluegirl]

25. Family, sort of, friends ex coworkers no.

My sanity is important to me. We only have three close family members who went down the Orange cesspool. One is my husband's sister who married a huge MAGA. We see her when we must, but plan to avoid her husband. My husband has a nephew who married a MAGA. we do not see them often so that is ok for now. The other is my ex military brother.

My brother and I were estranged when MAGA came to power. My sister has told me stories about his falling into the MAGA trap. He is highly educated two Masters degrees, went to War College, was a Navy pilot for over 30 years. Two tours in Vietnam, one in the gulf. We were raised by strong Democrats on both sides. Not sure what happened to him.

I have a few distant cousins who I hear are MAGA but I have no real contact.

I have cut ties with alot of former coworkers and friends here in Oklahoma. I do not need the drama they bring to my life.

[CanonRay]

26. All gone long ago.

[Ocelot II]

27. Never had any that I know of.

My nasty SIL might have been a Trump supporter the first time around (I don't know for sure since I haven't spoken to her in years) because she hates taxes and Black people, but she might have changed her mind on account of Ukraine. Some out-of-state cousins have been moderate GOPers but I've never heard them mention Trump. Otherwise I have no Trump-supporting family, friends or acquaintances, which is nice.

[Hope22]

28. No.

I call my maga sister once a month to see how my mother is. I talk with her until she says something inflammatory and then say good bye. Time and again she has proven not to be trustworthy. If not for mom I wouldn’t call at all. No maga friends anymore. Over it!

[Takket]

29. Nope

My brother in law is a trumper and he is cut out of our lives. For more reasons than just his politics.

[LakeArenal]

30. Yes. And we aren't "hanging" on to them.

Believe or not. Friends are friends.

We are adults.

Besides several will soon regret it.

Many have the idea that every dump supporter is a raging racist. It’s really not the case in our life.

[Woodwizard]

32. For my wifes sake.

Most of my in laws are trumpers they absolutely know we despise him.

I have cut way down on going to family activities or hosting for them.

Her one sister is so pathetically ignorant of how politics and government work yet so convinced of what fox tells her.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

33. My existence and civil rights are being taken away because of their votes

I know which FB friends and family voted for him. Their silence says it all. I've been waiting for one to reach out, they haven't. It's heartbreaking that family members I've loved for 50 years can't even look me in the eye now, but that's their damage, not mine. They have to live with what they did to me. And I will remind them daily, whether they answer or not.

[Prairie_Seagull]

34. NO, ignorance in ones vote is no excuse.

My one contact point with my MAGA brother is our yearly bet on the Superbowl. Which historically we do on the day after the championship games. We catch up on how the kids are doing also. That is it however and we were close at one time. We are the only living members left of our immediate family.

We look and act so much alike that we got called twins thought out our lives.

No one can tell anyone else how to feel about anyone. It's a very personal thing.

I will say to my DU peeps. GO Philly and it would seem I have some extra betting money?

[Mz Pip]

36. I don't have any, anymore

We parted ways after Obama was elected. Why she thought I would find her racist jokes amusing is beyond me.

[pandr32]

37. No.

[Maru Kitteh]

39. Not going to be cutting off my husband's 84yo dying mother, thank you very much.

“Mind ya own business” goes both ways, and applies to disparate situations, this being one of them.

[Kaleva]

41. Yes

Politics isn't discussed much.

Also, with catastrophic climate change fast approaching, most everyone in my community will have to work together.