The political divide is threatening relationships among family, friends and co-workers
But they can't, don't and won't talk about what's really on their minds. "We have the superficial conversations you'd have in a waiting room with a stranger. It's not the emotional sharing that binds people. Week after week, it feels like poverty," she said. "It makes me sad and lonely to think they don't really know me." Calling herself the "odd woman out," Borchardt, of Apple Valley, identifies as a Democrat. Her family, most of whom live in Nebraska, are conservative Republicans. They have always disagreed about politics, but they no longer even share the same set of facts to draw upon.
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