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Yea, this is anecdotal evidence of course, but there are several lib friends of mine on FB who felt the need to announce that "they had to" unfriend some of their conservative friends/family during this last election cycle.
This past election brought out the worst in people (from both sides).
I didn't block anyone, but it did prompt me to get off of Facebook permanently. Just about everyone I knew became an insufferable douche bag.
Some of my liberal friends were decrying the end of the nation as we knew it. The attitude of complete defeat irritated me; there's another election in 4 years. I wasn't a fan of the result myself, but buckle down and do the next one better. That's where the energy should have been focused. Or at least, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that we're still in a democracy. Jesus Christ, I mocked people like Rip who kept talking about how Obama was certainly going to become a dictator and force a third term. I can't overlook that when people I more or less agree with start throwing the same accusations the other way.
And some of my conservative friends, who days before the election were asking people to "stop talking about politics and start posting about food again" suddenly went meme happy in the days following the election and forgot about their own pleas. It was a weird about-face, where my conservative friends were decrying how liberals had treated them for the last 8 years - and then began treating liberals in a manner that they admit is smug and unacceptable.
Everyone either outed themselves as cry babies or hypocrites. I have better things to do with my time than read the thoughts of unprincipled whiners.
...now back to posting in the war room where everything is balanced and sane.