Anybody get a Divorce because of Trump/Maga?

dukeman92 said:
My fiancée and I have only found each other within the last five years. And she was one of those people who didn't follow or care about politics. She would always vote the way her mother told her to vote, which means she voted Trump.

I did not tell her which way to vote during the last election cycle, I simply impressed upon her the importance of voting and educating herself on the issues. Same as her son, who was able to vote for the first time. Suffice it to say both are STRONG dems who are repulsed by Trump and the current Trumplican Party.

If she had sided with this current administration we would not be together.
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It's good that you helped her see the light.

Now if she can just help you to come to the light blue side of college sports....

😎🤔😁
 
I have a close very good friend who is a MAGA . We have an agreement to never discuss politics because it almost destroyed our 50 year friendship during Trump's 1st term. His wife is a liberal Dem and they have reached a similar truce, but she and I will discuss politics when the opportunity presents ;)

Fortunately for me, my wife, children and grandchildren are liberals so T'giving dinners are copacetic:)

My BFF is apolitical

So I live a pretty protected political sheltered life outside the ZZL and the horror of day to day political events perpetrated by the worst president and his most craven party in my lifetime.
 
I generally date/marry women who are politically ambivalent. While I get focused on politics to varying degrees at different times, I generally feel like hyper fixation on politics is bad for people's mental wellbeing. I need to take breaks from politics. Don't think I could be with somebody who was hyper focused on politics 24/7.

And while I was around 50/50 on voting Dem vs Pub in my younger years, since I voted for W the first time around I've never voted Pub since... and do not think I could be with somebody who voted for Trump... especially in the last election where there was no longer any ambiguity about who he was as a person.
 
One of my best friends pretty much ghosted me a few years ago after I told him to stop sending me batshit crazy links to Alex Jones type content.

When he asked why I told him bc those guys are there to take advantage of all the fools and suckers with conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact....

He then said 'are you calling me and my parents fools and suckers'? My reply was 'pretty much, at least in so far as you believe that shit'.

And that was that.

Made me sad then, but from other mutual friends he went even deeper into those cesspools of beliefs and has alienated many other of his friends and colleagues as well. It really is a cult-- at a certain point, those in a cult cut themselves off from those not all in with 'em.
 
I have an uncle whose Facebook feed was a firehose of MAGA (and worse) crap. I finally blocked him - I am still FB friends with him (I like that he can see pictures of my family and I don't really post anything political so he doesn't get drawn into debates with me on Facebook).

I wouldn't mind seeing pictures of his family, but they are such a tiny proportion of what he posts that it is not worth wading through the torrent of awful shit he posts. Makes me sad.
 
My wife always votes democrat and I always vote for whom I consider the best candidate regardless of party.
Since and including the 2004 election, in my opinion that has been nothing but democrats.
We met in 2005 so politics has never been an issue.
 
I do have one life long friend who has separated from his wife, but I don’t think trump or politics had anything to do with it. Simple, irreconcilable differences I guess. That said, she is very vocal about her dislike and disdain for all things trump/MAGA on her social media posts. Him, not so much. He’s always been apolitical and may not even vote at all. (Remember there are millions of them out there… don’t ever vote at all… hard to believe). I haven’t bothered to ask, but I wonder if his apolitical stance pissed her off? Their two kids are both grown and well out of the nest. The kids both seem to be anti-trumpers. Actually I know the daughter is, come to think of it.

Not sure what it means, but most all of my good, close, longtime friends are all very progressive and decided anti-Trumpers. Only one guy whom I’d consider a good friend did I have to disassociate myself. A music colleague. Helluva jazz trumpet player… had to fire him from my band. Shame really. But I had to lance that boil.

All my other married friends are happily together and voting blue.

Some in-laws and some of my extended are lost causes. I’m totally estranged from them. One good thing is they all live a long long way from North Carolina, so there never are any awkward Thanksgiving gatherings… and no political fireworks. I’ve just simply unfriended them on FB so I never see their shit.
 
I don’t know anyone divorced over politics, but I also don’t know too many people my age or younger who don’t align politically. People my parents’ age (boomers) I think it’s a lot more common, because back then at least both parties were participating in the American experiment and not full blown authoritarians who were living outside reality and common sense. And people agreed on what facts were (most of the time).

It is truly funny to see all the loser incel manosphere bros who cry about not being able to get dates or get laid due to women seeing on their dating profiles that they’re right wingers. I personally believe that’s more a function of the GOP going full wingnut than women being militant or whatever they claim.
 
rodoheel said:
Certainly those of us sickos posting on "ZZL Politics" are not a representative sample of Americans generally when it comes to caring about politics.
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Which is why simplicities like "it's the economy, stupid" are accurate so often.

Due to social media, I think the politically-invested population is growing.... mostly for the worse.
 
HeelInTheOzarks said:
I don’t know anyone divorced over politics, but I also don’t know too many people my age or younger who don’t align politically. People my parents’ age (boomers) I think it’s a lot more common, because back then at least both parties were participating in the American experiment and not full blown authoritarians who were living outside reality and common sense. And people agreed on what facts were (most of the time).

It is truly funny to see all the loser incel manosphere bros who cry about not being able to get dates or get laid due to women seeing on their dating profiles that they’re right wingers. I personally believe that’s more a function of the GOP going full wingnut than women being militant or whatever they claim.
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Bingo!
Folks who’ve chosen their mate carefully, with discernment and forethought probably will not tear that association asunder over something like politics or religion. They’ve already seen past that. And as you’ve said, people agree (agreed) on what the facts are (were) long before entering into a long p term relationship.

I’d like to hear a woman’s perspective on this. Several women, in fact.
 
I have a friend who is maga.

I haven't seen him in a decade, but we text 5 or 6 times a year.

He sometimes makes comments about stupid liberals. I don't believe he knows about me, since when we worked together I was still conservative.

So last time he made a comment like that, I responded with "Aren't your kids liberal". He said yes, but it's because of all the years in college. I just responded "Well they are really smart, they both have PhDs".
 
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