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What is the Difference Between Morals and Politics?
The future of the United States depends on it.
I am an American liberal woman married to an American conservative man. More marriages like ours are shattering now than ever before.
It happens all the time: people we’ve known throughout our lives we are starting to see for who they “really are.”
Insufferable, selfish, immoral, evil, inhumane. These words now describing our family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.
Lifelong relationships are ending over differences in political parties.
So many of us asking ourselves, ‘how didn’t I see this evil in them before?’ or ‘how can’t they understand that what they believe is evil?’
Here’s the thing. If you’re losing friends over politics, it’s not an awakening. You haven’t been enlightened. You’ve been led astray.
Frankly, we all have.
Let me explain how to fix it.
Conversations: The Key
Contrary to the tone of the world around us, my conservative husband and I have civil and productive discussions about politics almost daily.
Does that sound crazy to you? Even impossible?
