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When Politics Aren’t Just Political
You can’t choose your family, but I have friends with whom I wholeheartedly disagree in terms of politics. In the past, these differences haven’t been a big deal for me. I don’t love it, I don’t get it, but I can respect our varied points of view. Over the past few years, however, our political parties have been swinging to extremes. The differences in our political viewpoints has become increasingly profound. To my friends who have said that we should just look past our political differences, I now have to say, “No.” Because it’s no longer about big government vs. small government, views on the military, or the rate of…