I've got three incredibly close and good friends. They aren't perfect people, ranging from typical American lib, to centrist/conservative. We generally stay away from hot button topics, because we just don't agree on stuff.
(ie : an argument that i made suggesting cops don't belong in kids showa/movies, and they were all cool with it because "what's the harm in showing kids what police should be)
I linked to a meme on Twitter just today, and the user had a hammer & sickle, after laughing one friend said" wow, hammer and sickle big yikes". They don't have any idea about where I lay politically, and frankly it's been a pretty radical shift left in the last 10 months.
Anyone else have a situation like this? And how do you approach things?
I was a Republican in high school because I was a fucking idiot, then quickly radicalized left once I got to college. I never really talked about it out loud, I would kind of just mock libs and conservatives alike. After a while I thought it was pretty obvious that I was a leftist, but one of my best friends told me he thought I was a conservative. I pretty much laughed him out of the room. Now I'm pretty explicit about it because that was a bad feeling having someone think I was a conservative