One of the most frequent complaints about contemporary American politics is how contentious and divisive our political discourse has become. For years, we’ve read articles about how disagreements over politics are dividing colleagues at work, poisoning friendships, weakening familial ties, spoiling holidays and even ending marriages.
A 2021 poll by the Survey Center on American Life revealed that only 15% of those surveyed had actually ended a friendship over politics. But political persuasion mattered. Democrat/progressive respondents were nearly three times more likely than Republicans to consider a friendship ended because of politics. Liberal women were the most strident on the matter, with fully one-third reporting that they had ended a friendship because of differing political perspectives. …
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