Advice on potential new friend?

[birdographer]

13. Yeah...

My problem (and it does seem to be a problem) is that I stopped thinking of MAGAts as being "politically" different back in about 2017. It's not about politics, which I still consider to be matters like foreign policy and budgets and even who is Speaker of the House. It's about values and morality and how a person relates to other people (love vs hate). To me, being republican or Democrat now defines a person's humanity, it's not just opinion. I know that I am incapable of associating with republicans now, just as I would not associate with someone I know is racist. On the other hand, I am not likely at all to associate with someone who doesn't like dogs, either. I guess I'm real judgy and have kind of rigid standards... The religion thing I don't mind. I lower my expectations of intelligence, but if they want to believe a fairy tale, if it gives them solace or comfort, and they don't expect me to go along, I have always been fine with that.