I usually think it shouldn't be a factor in what friends you choose but sometimes their support of issues can be a deal breaker if they clash so heavily with your view. Would you unfriend someone who you find out to be a pedophile? Outspoken nazi? We all likely have limits even though unfriending someone because they support Trump feels a bit strong.

Unfriending someone just because of their political differences is dumb as shit since you resort to getting yourself into nothing but petty ass group think that sets a dangerous path that's no different from the censorship that the Nazis practice ... 

If you think your friend is ignorant on an issue of a particular view, then a good friend would at least try to educate them instead of chalking up insults at them ... 

It's close minded as shit denying a person's contrary views altogether before it's even considered ...

I'm sorely disappointed about my generation ... 

Fuck if I wanted clones of myself I'll just go ask research laboratories to do that instead making friends altogether ...

If anything, the 2016 election has outed quite a few people as to how they really feel about a great number of the issues that are polarizing the US.

So, maybe you learn something about some friends due to their political affiliations, or more specifically, stumping on public forums for said affiliations, but does that change any of the common ground you share that made you friends in the first place? Probably not.

As for trying to show someone the "light" or teach them the "right way of thinking" because you're trying to help them, I would really just let that kind of mentality go.

If you're not capable of doing that, then yes; you should probably stick exclusively to like minded cliques in echo chambers, free of any sort of meaningful discussion.

More personal attacks LivingMetal? Still waiting for you to explain your support for candidate Trump...

If all you can do is deflect, pivot, and issue ad hominem attacks, maybe you should steer clear of these types of debates.

I appreciate what you guy are saying -- immersing oneself in an echo chamber is unproductive and ultimately hazardous -- but I believe in some cases of extreme, unbridgeable gaps in political ideology it's impossible to maintain a friendly relationship. I just think there's a difference between disagreeing about what programs get funded and how to respond to acts of aggression, and disagreements about what it means to be a decent human being.

Ditto. Surrounded by Crooked Hillary fans but friends are friends and they don't mind me siding with him... 

This election sure is serious business!

I realize these things go above just simple "difference of opinion" but this post felt very extreme at the time and came off as hypocritical because of how violent it was. It was posts like which made me write why I had said something such as being tempted to vote for Hillary or Trump just to go against the whole "you can only vote for this person because of this reason", because I was very much against how often people were generalizing each other with this statement just to blanketly dismiss everything, as I had mentioned previously in this thread voting for someone didn't necessarily mean agreeing with everything they said or did so there could have been plenty of reasons. I never voted though and realized a lot of my logic in this thread was wrong.

Edit: I've edited this comment to rewrite it as to more accurately portray what I meant to say at the time, as the original was poorly worded.

There are very good reasons to vote for Trump.

But go ahead, continue sneering at his supporters. Let's see where that will lead to.

I wouldn't diss on my family because of political differences (and I usually keep politics to a minimum with them), but any of my facebook friends who show right or far right tendencies I defriend without making a fuss.

Consequently, most of my facebook friends are left/far left.