{"id":1478,"date":"2023-04-30T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/30\/how-many-friends-have-you-lost-over-politics\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:08:13","slug":"how-many-friends-have-you-lost-over-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/30\/how-many-friends-have-you-lost-over-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Friends Have You Lost Over Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have lost about a half dozen. How about you? I am interested in your stories, but even more in your analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Austin Ruse bemoans<\/a> friendships lost. His piece ends:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Maybe my friend is right. Maybe we can\u2019t be friends right now, maybe never. For me, though, that would be unspeakably sad. Message to my old pal: my door is always open. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unspeakably sad? I see things differently. People who lost their minds over Trump, people too stupid to see past the man's obnoxious style and credit his ideas and numerous positive accomplishments; people who refused to see Biden for what he is, a fraud, a phony, a brazen liar, an empty suit rooted in no principle, morally corrupt, physically feeble, and non compos mentis;<\/em> people who donned useless masks out of ovine fear, people who went along, to get along, with wokery and trans-delusionality and the celebration of thugs and criminals and every manner of loser — such people were never worthy of my friendship in the first place. They were false friends from the start and I am glad circumstances made them show their true colors.  Good riddance!<\/span><\/p>\n

Some say Trump is the Great Divider. Nonsense. He is the Great Clarifier.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have lost about a half dozen. How about you? I am interested in your stories, but even more in your analysis. Austin Ruse bemoans friendships lost. His piece ends: Maybe my friend is right. Maybe we can\u2019t be friends right now, maybe never. For me, though, that would be unspeakably sad. Message to my … Continue reading “How Many Friends Have You Lost Over Politics?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendship","category-political-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}