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.
Comrade, I know exactly what you’re talking about. I’m the exact same way. I’m only recently getting enough confidence to be more open about my beliefs to the very few people still around me. And to be honest it’s not easy to deal with other people when we are like that.
That being said, in a couple of months it will be two years since I completely ditched my last friend group. The reason I ditched them is because they were actual fascists. Me being a centrist lib at the time didn’t fully realize it, and being autistic it took me way to much time to realize that their irony was actually their real opinions, just disguised for plausible deniability. Since they were my only friends I would let things slide, wouldn’t say anything and would just take it silently. Until I couldn’t anymore, I was becoming more left by the day and was starting to see through them, to the point I couldn’t remain there.
The downside is that I’m very lonely now, but I rather be lonely than at the side of literal monsters that want concentration camps and want women to not be able to vote, both things they seriously told me the last time I spoke with them.
Each situation is unique and you’ll have to decide if it’s worth to continue doing what you’re doing or not.