As a child of the 60s and 70s, I recall that political differences did not end friendships, let alone destroy family relationships. As you said, we all tended to agree with the first two paragraphs of the DI. I might add, we were all patriots (in the true definition of loving our country). But times have most certainly changed. We have not been united to to single cause, but rather divided (thank you Saul Alinsky) according to a myriad of aggrieved constituencies.
It's no longer e pluribus unum, but rather 'diversity is our strength'; to which I call bull****!!!
As a child of the 60s and 70s, I recall that political differences did not end friendships, let alone destroy family relationships. As you said, we all tended to agree with the first two paragraphs of the DI. I might add, we were all patriots (in the true definition of loving our country). But times have most certainly changed. We have not been united to to single cause, but rather divided (thank you Saul Alinsky) according to a myriad of aggrieved constituencies.
It's no longer e pluribus unum, but rather 'diversity is our strength'; to which I call bull****!!!
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My mom’s family were Republicans. My Dad’s Democrats. (By and large.) Until Jimmy Carter. Then they all became Republicans.
They did not change their positions on any issues that I recall. Nor did they change friends. And they never stopped talking and arguing politics.
Then, again, they’d all lived through WWII and Korea and Vietnam. They knew what mattered.
They also grew up in the pre-Vatican II Church which reminded us that there’s little hope of reforming others until we’ve let God perfect us.