I got into a heated discussion with my wife's sister and she told me to leave and never go back to her house. She is a stupid crazy liberal high school counselor in Phoenix. All I said was that I will never accept China Joe as a legitimate leader! She freaking blew up on me and started ranting about how superior Biden and Harris are. Now my wife is mad at me cuz I will not apologize.
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Because people spend so much time on the internet, they choose their friends and acquaintances far more than any previous generation. The convenience of this means there are people that know and interact on a daily basis with 0 people that have major political disagreements with them.
In this circumstance, it is possible to believe that the political opposition must be insane, or evil, or deluded, and just be people with different life experience, values, and habits. This leads to a further decline in discussion.
Multiple times in the last few years I've shared my political position (I posted about it here when I told my family), and been accused of racism, bigotry, evil, or insanity. Without facing, dispelling, and overcoming the illusions that drive the divide, it will grow wider until it is no longer possible to repair.