Sincere question: How are we to deal with our Republican friends?

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7. One of my oldest friends cut ME out of her life

She could not understand why I voted for and (horror!) worked for the Obama campaign last time around. She would call me
drunk out of her mind seething in venom about Obama and his birth certificate, yada, yada, yada. Our friendship went back to 1971
and I seriously think Fox poisoned her mind. Every single negative Obama rumor, my phone would ring. She had never acted this.

I would be delighted to drop politics and speak with her about any other subject but she would not leave it alone.
I was revulsed by the way she spoke about people from different cultures and people who were unemployed. I reminded her I was
unemployed (I have a job now).
I do miss her, but I don't know her anymore.

With some, you can call a truce and not talk politics, others you may have to cut loose, at least for now.
It really is a shame.