It's official - We've parted ways over politics

[Xolodno]

36. It wasn't politics...its psychological.

"Repeat a lie often enough, it eventually becomes truth"

Also the "backfire effect" of arguments, the more you point out facts, sources, etc. you only convince them they are in the right.

I've been forced to write off family and old friends, and I'm better for it. The person you knew is long since gone.

I treated family, well, like family. But eventually realized, I was the only party treating the other like family...and they were not reciprocating. They interpreted it as weakness and tried to exploit it. I haven't seen some in a very long time and I suspect I won't in the future any time soon...if at all. Yeah, it sucks, but, they aren't the people I used to know anymore.

You did everything you could and he wasn't even willing to budge an inch to salvage your relationship. He gave you the ultimatum and was well prepared to write you off if you refused. He put his "values" above family. There was nothing you could do, other than becoming a carbon copy of him.