Friendship is too special to squander, even if it’s with a liberal!/Image: Licensed Dreamstime stock, Rawpixelimages.
This week in Advice, your favorite Spread Your Right Wings (SYRW) counselor, Dr. Kaylee MacEnnaKnee, who doles out wisdom on all things affecting the hard-right conservative community, talks to an Alt-right-er about being buddies with a left-wing loony.
Dear Dr. MacEnnaknee,
I’m a middle-aged, white–of proud European descent–wealthy, straight, culturally Christian, politically conservative, cisgender (just heard this term this week for the first time–interesting!) man. I live in the mid-Atlantic, a resident of one of the urban, elite communities that’s brimming with liberals. Needless to say, I have many friends of the left-wing political persuasion. Some of my closest friends, for example, are Bernie-supporting, social-safety-net-loving, rights-for-all-supporting Commies! I like them, and they like me. We have always just “agreed to disagree” on political issues and matters of cultural import to all of us. Am I being betraying to the Alt-right philosophy or being in some way dishonest to my right-wing brethren by being pals with these people?
Confused in Alexandria
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Dear Confused,
The short answer is, “No.” Well, so is the long answer. No, you are not being in some way dishonest or duplicitous at all by having left-leaning friends. Friendship is a beautiful, magical, and deeply important part of the human experience. We must nurture it however it happens and work through the complications. I’m so glad you wrote me.
Now, there is something I want you to understand about your friends. Be gentle with them, as irritating as their views can be to a good, red-blooded, conservative, Alt-right fellow like yourself. Unlike you, they haven’t had the privilege of living life feeling like their views are held by most other people. They have likely felt like part of a minority, even odd and awkward because they’ve been left out–left out!–of the cultural equation you and I are a part of, happily. They may even feel a little threatened sometimes, because we’re in the majority and pretty much always have been in U.S.-American culture.
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Think of how un-fun it’s been for them, going through life feeling like they’re fighting an uphill cultural battle, how they’re a beleaguered minority who’ll never see their values validated by their manifesting in the broader culture. This is especially true now that Donald Trump is president and a far-right agenda is being advanced every day to an extreme degree in virtually every area of life–economically, politically, and socially. Those who are members of the left are watching everything they thought was true, particularly all they gained during Obama’s long tenure as their leader, dismantled, excruciating day after excruciating day. For them, this must be, as our leader, Trump, loves to say, “Very sad!”
Essentially, you should pity these freaks of nature! And, as I said, continue being friends with them. Friendship is too special to let it go because of any sort of political-differences reason, as passionate as you and we here at Spread Your Right Wings are about conservative issues.
You are right to make friends with, well, whomever you choose. Keep it up, especially because they’re “very sad” and you should feel sorry for them.
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