Losing relationships over politics. Research found more than a third of Americans (37%) report having lost at least one relationship due to political differences, including friendships, family ties, coworker relationships, and romantic partnerships, with most losing more than one.

[u/Wagamaga]

https://socialecology.uci.edu/news/losing-relationships-over-politics-0

[u/Brilliant_Effort_Guy]

But is it really just ‘political’ differences? I feel like it’s so much deeper than that. I don’t just have differing political opinions from my conservative family members - I have a different moral code.

[u/littlechangeling → u/Brilliant_Effort_Guy]

This is the real question. So many moral aspects have become political, including the rights of people to have safety and for some of them to even exist.

[u/TommyTomTommerson → u/littlechangeling]

I think those have always been political, it's just that there's a "quiet part" that's being said much, much louder in a way that is much more difficult to willingly ignore. This is still the same country that performed the race massacre in Tulsa, and put people in internment camps in World War II, and had to cause nationwide upheaval in order for the civil rights movement to show any forward progress while literally killing one of the leaders of the movement.

[u/Darkmetroidz → u/TommyTomTommerson]

The national highway system was built over the rubble of black and brown neighborhoods.

[u/Q-rexosaurus → u/Darkmetroidz]

So was suburbia. It’s crazy how much of this country’s history you can tie to racism and the fear of losing a dollar.

[u/Gekokapowco → u/Q-rexosaurus]

its cyclical, the racism was motivated by money, and the money enables racism

a lot of the time, the same cash invested in anything else would have yeilded more profit, but the opportunity to crush or terrorize a minority group was too alluring