The difference is that we’re way past being able to say “it’s just a political difference, we can still be friends” A neglectable political difference would be not agreeing on whether tax money should be spent on repairing neglected rural roads or upgrading public transit. Or whether you want a military draft or not. Or what food safety standards should be pursued. If you’re supporting MAGA, it means you either believe that certain groups of people do not deserve human rights and can be kidnapped/killed on a whim or you don’t care that your party is doing that. It doesnt matter that we both love Star Wars and the same video games and can talk about them for hours, if you think that people who are important to me should vanish.

Those are the same words (but different language) I introe’d the long call with to tell my father that I’ll go low-low contact with him. I gave him my saved YT politics playlist so he can watch it to see a lot of how I came to my conclusions (it’s about 650 vids consisting of shorts, essays and anything in between) and give counter-evidence if he has any, but other than that I only want to be called in an emergency.