I don’t know why you are surprised by all of this. The parties and candidates stand for very different things. And if you are passionate in your beliefs about one party it really means you have a fundamentally different view on life than those passionate about the other side.
I have many friends and I am much closer to the ones that vote like I do then the ones that don’t. I have three kids and two vote one way and one the other. There is a barrier between me and the two that vote differently than I do. We still love each other and get along fine but there is a divide that will always be there.
Its not about picking a candidate its about picking a philosophy. In my youth I thought the parties where much closer than they are now. The country is very polarized and it will harm us greatly in the long run.
