Aw {internet hug}   But I get that. I have close friends I've kept from high school that we still see things differently. One bought be a book of quotations from Newt Gingrich as a Christmas present. 🙄 It's hard to.find common ground when ideaology is so much of many people's personality.  It's harder as an older adult to find good friends, honestly. I've made mine at the gym & at my kids sports practices. And you have to be dogged about making the friends,  which is uncomfortable for me. Texting them,  sharing pics of both kids at practice, sharing an internet article about shared interests.  Making adult friends sucks more than dating honestly, but it's basically the same & it sucks. Plus. When you're 40 like me they all sell lularoe or younique or something so it's awful. I hide here too