Refusing to normalize cruelty, racism, or apathy in the name of “keeping the peace” is not divisive. It’s courageous. It’s what integrity looks like in action.

You can love someone deeply and still choose not to stay in close relationship with them. Love does not require access. Compassion does not mean proximity. Choosing distance is not hatred, it is self-respect and moral clarity.

Sometimes it’s not politics that ruins friendships it’s discovering that someone you care about is indifferent to suffering, or actively defends systems that harm others. And that realization requires boundaries.

There’s a growing chorus of people who say: “Don’t let politics divide us.” But when “politics” refers to the rights, safety, and survival of others what they’re really asking is for you to silence your conscience for the sake of comfort.

We are either standing on the side of compassion or looking away. There is no neutral ground in the face of suffering.

“Don’t Let Politics Ruin Friendships” Is a Red Flag

To care for others is not a partisan act, it is a sacred human responsibility. If we don’t recognize this, then we are complicit in letting cruelty disguise itself as policy and injustice parade as debate.

These aren’t political talking points. They are symptoms of something insidious: a breakdown of empathy. A failure to care. A loss of collective soul.

Today, we face modern atrocities. Migrants treated as subhuman. Families shattered by preventable illness and poverty. The Earth crying out under floods, fires, and storms we know how to prevent. And children,innocent,voiceless hidden while systems profit and silence those who dare speak.

Was the Holocaust “just politics”? Of course not. It was a brutal manifestation of hatred, propaganda, indifference, and power abused, and it started with people looking the other way because it “wasn’t their problem.”

To reduce child trafficking, environmental collapse, and systemic oppression to “politics” is to hide behind privilege, the privilege of distance, of detachment, of denial. It is the language of those who do not feel the fire because they are not the ones being burned.

We have to start.

Let's get together and work it out!

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It was cold and so worth it!