Since 2016, Donald Trump and his MAGA movement have driven a wedge between many personal relationships.
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This seems to be the case for this MAGA voter who is feeling “lost and confused” after being cut off from his peers of 20+ years because of their support for Trump.
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In a now-viral post, this MAGA voter seeks advice from other Trump voters who have lost friends to politics. Here’s the full post:
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“I am not someone who lives and breathes political debates…”
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“I kept trying to say, ‘We can’t just respect each other’s differences… who cares who we voted for?’ But it didn’t help…”
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“Am I being realistic or lacking empathy?”
“I’m really sad and confused right now…”
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In the thousands of comments, people aren’t exactly sympathetic…
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“Votes affect the real world, so when you vote against other people’s interests, yes, they’re going to be pissed and want nothing to do with you,” said one person.
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“Maybe it was true twenty years ago that you could vote for a Republican candidate while your best friend voted Democrat and it wouldn’t be a big deal. That’s not the world we live in anymore,” said another person.
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“Tolerance is not a right, it’s a social contract. It says, “don’t be a dick to me and I won’t be a dick to you.” But they want to be dicks to people without consequences, and that destroys the social contract. So, nobody needs to tolerate fascist, nazi-type shit,” said this person.
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“I had to kill a good friend of mine after 2016 due to his incessant need to inject his newly discovered MAGA politics into everything,” shared another person.
“You’ll be talking about some rando topic and the next thing you’ll hear is ‘probably the damn libs’ or ‘sounds like something a Democrat would say’ or some bullshit. He was absolutely fun to be around before 2016. We rode our bikes almost every weekend, 20+ mile rides. We never got political. When 20 political saying. nasty things about immigrants He couldn’t leave her alone… So, they lost him when it became obvious that the nice guy I used to go to bars, I took a trip to Mexico.
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