I've had to block someone I thought was a friend on this site for reasons that I just don't have the heart to go into. Would you like some advice from someone who had to learn this lesson the hard way?

I've tried to reason with so many people on this blog - many of whom were leftists or of that ilk. What I learned sadly was that by merely expressing empathy for conservatives - not supporting their ideological views but their right to exist - by saying that censorship is horrible in a free society - even if you hate what people are saying - or by trying to argue that the progressive agenda is flawed - even if you tell people you not only are not conservative but have voted Democrat in the past - is in the minds of too many signs that you are a MAGA extremist, a bigot and just as bad as them. I spent a lot of time trying to reason with so many of these people and it ended in two ways - they would either completely ignore my responses, or write screeds that were essentially name calling.

To preserve your sanity, you're going to have block some people. How often you do it is your own perorgative but you're going to have to. Because, as you've already learned, these people do not like their bubbles punctured and apparently even when you ever offer the slightest bit of disagreement to their views even if you are inc accord with 98 percent of everything they say, you are de facto the enemy and deserving of their hatred. It's sad and it hurts - I do everyhting in my power to fight it - but at a certain point you have to learn when to stop. I wish I had known that years ago. It would have saved me a lot of time and energy. Hopefully you can learn from it going forward.