From the sounds of your conversation with your friend, I come away with the impression that it was not a close friendship rooted in personal ties. If it is then I expect your friend will see the foolishness of her reaction and let you know you are important to her regardless of your different political views. As she currently seems to express your friendship is that you must see things alike for the friendship to exist.
I guess it all depends on how you define the word friend. My real friends (I know, it's hard to believe that I actually have friends...) have their own opinions and we have plenty of lively debates over lots of controversial topics.
At the end of the day I might think that one of them is wrong about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (shameless Youtube plug [youtube:3sayoc0y][/youtube:3sayoc0y]) being the next great religious movement. One of my best friends is a supporter of Obama and voted for Obama. I gave him all kinds of guff about it all the way through the campaign right up to today. That same friend knows he can count on me in a time of need and I'm sure he would return the favor.
Friends are people you can disagree with on everything while knowing that they will do anything they can if you need them to help you. As a real friend you have to be committed to respond in kind no matter what your friends want to believe in.
Anyone who calls themselves your friend based only on a common belief is just someone who happens to share your point of view.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
I guess you don't know who your friends are until they are tested. In the past I tended just to agree with whoever I was with to not make waves. I guess this place is teaching me bad habits.
I've seen this happen before too, it wasn't me but two good friends. It was thru political emails and the wives got involved and it was pretty ugly. An email cat fight! LOL. It wasn't funny though and feelings were hurt.
I remember telling my buddy, just pick up the phone and call, stop with all these emails.
This was 4 years ago and they smoothed things over eventually, but I think it left some scars. Especially since the spouses got involved. It was messy for awhile.
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Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
chickaree wrote: I had lunch with a "friend" at Park Meadows yesterday. We were both members of a local Republican womens club for years. Midway through lunch my companion started gushing about Newt and told me she had contributed $500 to his campaign. She asked who I was supporting and grew angry when I told her I liked Huntsman. She kept pressing me about Newt and finally I told her that he was a good politician but I had doubts about his ethics and thus couldn't support him. She grew increasingly angry and I kept trying to defuse the whole conversation. Finally after she had dumped several lies about Obama on me and how important it was to elect anyone but him I made the mistake of saying that I thought he was a bad president, but a good man. She slammed her coffee cup down and huffed that she obviously had been mistaken about what kind of person I was and stormed out. (leaving me with the check BTW).
So. For those of you who do the TLDR thing- have you ever ended a friendship over political differences?
Chick, it might be that you made sense and started to rock your friend's boat a little. Some people get very invested in their worldview and can't stand to hear other POV's. Many of my friends have very polar opposite views from me, but they don't lack that ability to listen (half of communication) or back up their own POV's.
LOL. It wasn't funny though and feelings were hurt.
