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

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111. Welcome to DU, Olafjoy.

I'm afraid I'm about to lose a good friend since grammar school. Gone over to the Dark Side, voted for trump because she just couldn't see herself voting for Hillary ("I just don't trust her..." - something I am completely and thoroughly unable to understand), and she really liked Mike Pence. She's kinda turned on trump but she still loves Mike Pence, and she still hates Hillary, even though she tries to deny it. I KNOW she hates Hillary. I've seen her texts. I've seen the names she calls HRC, which I'm sure must come from Pox Noise or Alex Jones or Breitbart or some hate radio lout. I've heard her snide "'course, she LIED the WHOLE TIME..." comments to others in the room when she didn't realize I was within earshot, the morning after the Gowdy-Howdy-Doody Benghazi hearing. And when I confront her on these things, she denies it. "'Hilldebeast'? I never heard that before!" "Um... do you want me to show you the text YOU sent ME, using that pejorative?"

Then after Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston, she texted me about her friend losing a coastal vacation home, breathlessly adding - "but this has NOTHING to do with climate change!" Seriously. I just couldn't let that go. I texted her back - "Hon, this has EVERYTHING to do with climate change." And I went on to explain to her that, since I joined Indivisible and got more active in other groups last year, I've joined a number of climate-crisis groups and I now hang out with oceanographers and climatologists and lecturers from USC and people who work at JPL (which is as nerdy as you can get), and told her there's no way on earth that she'll ever convince me this stuff "has nothing to do with climate change", so she might as well just save her breath. And THEN, she texts me back with "oh, I know!"

Sometimes these folks we love and try to keep loving - are just freakin' CRAZYMAKERS!!!!!!

I'm REALLY trying to save this friendship. She claims she doesn't want politics to come between us. Neither do I. We've been through schools, broken hearts, betrayals, sicknesses, financial reversals, births, deaths, and other disasters. But I've gotta admit - as this nightmare continues, I find my opinion of people I know who somehow STILL support trump is dropping. Little by little, I find I'm now feeling much more disappointment, with a growing sense of being disgusted. I'm not happy about that. But I'm not happy about seeing these souls deliberately marching themselves right down the drain, either - when the truth is right there, staring them in the face every single day.