Quote:When even liberals have begun noticing how insufferable their side has become, you know things have gotten bad for them to a severe degree.

The Washington Post ran a column last week by Brian Broome, a man who has literally said he hates Christmas. And even for him, his liberal friends have gone too far in their gross bitterness.

“In the liberal circles in which I mostly travel, it is nothing short of blasphemy to speak a positive word about any conservative for any reason,” wrote Broome. “Many of my friends can’t even bear to hear their names mentioned. I was reminded of this when in conversation with a friend I mentioned my approval of Rep. Liz Cheney’s performance during the Jan. 6 hearings.”

Broome said his friend reacted with “shock, hurt and outrage” that anyone would say a positive thing to him about a person who doesn’t share every single one of his political beliefs.

Is anyone surprised by this? Liberals have been exhibiting this kind of intolerant, anti-social behavior for years now, though it has gotten dramatically worse, as I explained in my new book “Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone.”

Broome’s only problem is that he then tried to both-sides the matter, asserting that conservatives and Republicans are just as bad. “[T]hey hate liberals with an almost otherworldly passion,” he said. “They like to put bumper stickers on their cars and trucks calling Joe Biden a communist; they have convinced themselves that the blue cities and states they despise are hellscapes of crime and desolation.”

Well, yeah. Bumper stickers that say “Let’s Go, Brandon” or its more explicit counterpart are really just symbols of solidarity among voters who know that the national news media are corrupt and scammy. That’s how they mock it. As for how they describe blue cities, it’s a point of fact that they’ve become dirty, crime-ridden tent towns. I live in D.C. I know.

Yet it’s not right-wingers who attest to having a visceral dislike for others who have a different opinion. It’s liberals who do that.

The American Perspectives Survey, conducted in May 2021 by the Survey Center on American Life, found Democrats and liberals were more likely to say they have ended friendships because of political disagreement. Among Republicans, 10 percent said they had done so. It was double for Democrats. In terms of ideology, 28 percent of liberals said they had ended friendships over political disagreements. Only 10 percent of conservatives said the same.

An NBC poll from September 2018 found just over 35 percent of Democrats said they would be uncomfortable, at least to some degree, having close Republican friends. Only 21 percent of Republicans said the same of Democrats. By contrast, 44 percent of Republicans said they would be “very comfortable” with a close friend who was a Democrat. Only 26 percent of Democrats would say the same for Republicans.

In July 2017, a separate Pew survey showed that 35 percent of Democrats said the previous year’s election put a strain on their relationships with friends who they knew voted for Trump. Only 13 percent of Republicans said the same about friends who voted for Clinton.

Sure, there are conservatives out there who would rather not associate with liberals. But can you blame them anymore?

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Wow! I didn't realize that I'm part of those conservatives who have ditched Demoncraptic fans because of ideology. Mine you, in El Paso 80% of the population is Demonic, . Sorry if that word makes you uneasy but it is what it is. If a party that espouses anti-Christian agendas and favors those things that the Bible disagrees with us living as such you can bet that I'm not really on their side. The Bible tells us that no liar will inherit the Kingdom of God and boy can those Demons in Congress lie. One day they will tell you something and the next they will tell you that they never said it. The worst part is that the first thing they said was a lie and then they lie telling you that they never said it, Double Whammy.

The person that I've disassociated with is not very bright but thinks otherwise. We've had discussions and he comes up with so many lies to prove his point. I finally gave up and never brought up politics with him again, it was a losing cause. It's like trying to talk to someone who doesn't believe in God, a pretty much useless endeavor. This person, I found out, prays to his dead mother. I told him flat out that even though WE always want our beloved parents to be in God's presence we can't be the judge of that. PLUS, let's say even if she was in heaven, can anyone, (Mueller, Mueller, anyone) tell me where it says in the Bible to pray to mere mortals and not to God Himself? I don't think you'll ever find it because it doesn't exist.

I've about given up hope for Democrats to see the truth about their party, it's a lost cause and my friend is in that category. You can't be a Christian and also be a Democrat...two opposing ideologies.

(08-02-2022 04:51 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  Wow! I didn't realize that I'm part of those conservatives who have ditched Demoncraptic fans because of ideology. Mine you, in El Paso 80% of the population is Demonic, . Sorry if that word makes you uneasy but it is what it is. If a party that espouses anti-Christian agendas and favors those things that the Bible disagrees with us living as such you can bet that I'm not really on their side. The Bible tells us that no liar will inherit the Kingdom of God and boy can those Demons in Congress lie. One day they will tell you something and the next they will tell you that they never said it. The worst part is that the first thing they said was a lie and then they lie telling you that they never said it, Double Whammy.

The person that I've disassociated with is not very bright but thinks otherwise. We've had discussions and he comes up with so many lies to prove his point. I finally gave up and never brought up politics with him again, it was a losing cause. It's like trying to talk to someone who doesn't believe in God, a pretty much useless endeavor. This person, I found out, prays to his dead mother. I told him flat out that even though WE always want our beloved parents to be in God's presence we can't be the judge of that. PLUS, let's say even if she was in heaven, can anyone, (Mueller, Mueller, anyone) tell me where it says in the Bible to pray to mere mortals and not to God Himself? I don't think you'll ever find it because it doesn't exist.

I've about given up hope for Democrats to see the truth about their party, it's a lost cause and my friend is in that category. You can't be a Christian and also be a Democrat...two opposing ideologies.

Amen brother!!!! A person cannot serve two masters he will grow to love one and hate the other. Democrats have chosen the love of men more than the love of God.