Politics Is Destroying American Friendships, And It’s Getting Worse [More]
I’m not personally seeing it. As we noted all those years ago:
Anyone who requires you to disarm is not your friend.
Affection and trust are earned.
[Via bondmen]
With Friends Like These
Sadly, there is a vast difference between the two main worldviews that predominate in our society, and there is very little common ground between the two sides. Without getting into the specifics, it boils down to very fundamental, root (“radical”) philosophical differences about the nature of Man, individual liberty, history, and the purpose and rightful ends of state power. I do not foresee any resolution until (and if) one or the other side prevails. Naturally I think my worldview is the right one and hope it prevails, but so do those on the other side. It is especially hard when that divide exists within families, separating those who share kinship.
Jefferson got into specifics:
The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety and accessibility in a strong executive; the healthy, firm, and virtuous, feeling confidence in their physical and moral resources, and willing to part with only so much power as is necessary for their good government; and, therefore, to retain the rest in the hands of the many, the division will substantially be into Whig and Tory.
–THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JOEL BARLOW, 1802.
“The man who wishes to take my bow is not my friend. He is my enemy.” — David Yeagley, Comanche political comentator