I’m aware of more and more friendships in which politics are verboten to preserve the friendship. At least one person can’t bear to know how another has voted or plans to: if the answer is as suspected, mutual trust and liking would evaporate and the friendship would be lost.
The upcoming election is much less likely to be decided by flag-wavers and lawn-sign-planters of either persuasion than it is by people enmeshed in these sorts of friendships.
And the health of those friendships on the day after — whenever that comes, and whatever the result — will tell us a lot about where the country’s going next.
Colin Steele 