Democrat Friends, Is Your Political Disagreement With Me Really Worth More Than Our Friendship?

I started blogging a few years ago. In fact, I’m approaching my 3-year anniversary next week. My first post was on May 19, 2023, a political post that opined on the Durham Report. It was brief and introduced my reasoning for blogging. I wanted to continue to speak out and do so away from Facebook. In deference to those of my friends who are Democrats, my opinions and thoughts wouldn’t always appear on your feed, instead with other things that social media is good for: my photography, my woodworking, my family, vacations, and perhaps most importantly, staying in contact with you… ALL of you.

This post has been coming for a while now, and today is the day I share my heart with you. I genuinely hope that the title of this post has caught the attention of my Democrat friends and that you are here to hear my thoughts. If you are, I’m sincerely appreciative. If not, well, ‘you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’. (I don’t know why I wrote that last sentence; if you’re not here, you won’t read it! LOL!)

I don’t know how to explain what I’m experiencing on Facebook. Actually, I can probably explain what I’m experiencing, but it’s more difficult to explain why I think it. 

Reactions and comments to my Facebook posts from my liberal, progressive, Democrat friends have disappeared. So, to have reactions to my comments on their posts. That’s what I’m experiencing, and have been for a while now. Here is the difficult part… why? There are a few possibilities, but all of them are just guesses. The most saddening possibility is that those friends have hidden me. They haven’t unfriended me, just hidden or blocked everything from me.

Another possibility, which I think is just as sad, is that they are just ignoring me. Now, why would I think that? Let me give you an example. A longtime friend had a birthday recently, and I posted a happy birthday to them on their FB page. Many other friends also commented with birthday wishes, and almost all of them were responded to by the friend with the birthday, several times even leading to other topics of well-wishes. But to me? Nothing. (See, I told you it might be difficult to explain why.)

The third possibility is that the algorithms Facebook is using just aren’t making my posts prominent to you Democrat friends. About this one, I honestly have no idea.

This almost complete disappearance of my Democrat friends is disheartening and saddening. If it’s due to Facebook, well, I guess I’ll just blame them. But if it’s one of the other two, I’ll just assume that your hatred for our President, Donald Trump, and my support of him carry more weight, and are more important to you, than our friendship.

I’ve heard of liberal children having nothing to do with their parents. I heard from a MAGA older gentleman that had a lady friend come over for drinks and to ’socialize,’ but when she got in the front door and saw the Trump and patriotic memorabilia in his living room, she immediately said it would never work, turned around, and left. That is a frustrating and sad reaction.

So, I’ll ask the question again.

Democrat Friends, Is Your Political Disagreement With Me Really Worth More Than Our Friendship?