As I often start my posts here, I’ll say that I’m middle aged. I’ve been burnt by people with materially comfort and normie opinions far too many times. I didn’t have a very warm relationship with my family, so much of my life was spent trying to find love through friendships. I’d do so much for my friend, only to see them ditch, betray, or sellout me. It happened time after time after time, well into the double digits. I’m not even exaggerating, I feel very resistant to forming close relationships with liberals.
Now I’m polite with liberals. And when bullshit starts, which it inevitable does, I’m not heartbroken the way I was in my 30s.
I like having friends, and in my part of the world, that means playing nice with the libs. I’m still in my heartbroken 30s and don’t know how to deal with it when I get them to understand something and it seems like we’re really making a breakthrough, and then a week later they’ll be back to switching their brain off and using thought terminating cliches.