This has been a concern of mine for awhile now, and it’s finally happening. My only close friends are people I have grown up my whole life with. We’re all suburbanite cishet crackermen who were well-off enough to never have to struggle with potentially starving or becoming homeless; predictably, this has fostered some garbage politics, mainly trumpanzees and blue MAGA. With Cheeto Hitler removing whatever shreds of a mask of humanity the Great Satan had left, I now have my blue MAGA friends calling out my trumpanzee friends for their support of Drumpf. The trumpanzees have been silent since the inauguration, and today the group chat has been split.
It was already a terrible form of liberalism for me to have let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship with people who, if I wasn’t already close to, would throw in the cuck pit. There is still a major issue in that the most vocal of the friends I’m still in touch with are blue MAGA to the point that, if I’m to grow a spine and actually stop letting things slide, I’m worried that I’ll be smeared as fascist myself and lose the close friends I have because pushing back against great man theory takes that make Orange Satan out to be a uniquely evil force instead of recognizing the evil of the system that produced him will invariably come across as defending Trump. I’m bad at making myself go outside, let alone making friends, that I’ll have very few IRL people in my actual life.
Edit: The issue seems to have been deeper than politics, and the sides reconciled. However, the baseline seems to be “no outright evil political beliefs”, and Marxism Leninism is considered evil by most burgers.
Stupid friends aren’t friends worth having. Start a fight with them all.
Hit the blue maga nerds for being every bit as stupid as the maga chuds. Demonizing trump and his followers is just as ignorant as the trumpists demonizing marginalized people.
Maga hate immigrants and lgbtq people because while their living standards were falling the dems were wasting tons of time and effort pandering to marginalized people. Blue maga might be stupider because they think that pandering was real progress and that Maga chuds are the ones to blame for the fall in living standards. Both sides are just blaming fellow victims. Both sides are fucking idiots who refuse to look up and see their real enemy are the fat fuck capitalists who are purposely confusing the issues so that nobody comes at them.
Yes LGBTQ rights, abortion, immigration, etc. are important issues but until the political system is fixed so that the billionaires aren’t the only ones with any power those issues will just be flicked back and forth as distractions meant to keep people from addressing the real issue of wealth inequality. You will never get equality between sexes, races religions, and sexualities while the super rich are in control because if everyone was equal except the rich we’d all come together to eat the rich.
I’d probably do that if they weren’t my only friends and I’m shit at making friends.
I lost pretty much my entire friend group recently because I called out how one of them is a fake activist while working for a defense contractor. They did not like that one bit!
They were my friends through all of high school and college, and while it stung a little bit at first I genuinely feel so much better about it. You’ll make new friends, I found myself sitting in a shell not going out because I had all my social interaction satisfied by the group chat.
Your choice but it won’t be the end of the world, I promise.