Hi and welcome to the Carol Mark Witt show on I Heart Radio. It's hard to avoid the

election. I'm super in it like many of you and I try to keep politics out of

this show but obviously it seeps in from time to time and a few days before a

major presidential election is just that kind of time.

I'm already hearing from people who are saying

that their relationships, their friendships, their family connections,

are getting strained because of the election.

On News Nation the other night,

J.D. Vance said, if you're discarding a lifelong friendship

because somebody is voting for the other team,

then you've made a terrible, terrible mistake and you should do something different

don't cast aside family members in lifelong friendships

politics is not worth it.

I love that he said that especially because he's on the ticket obviously and should want people to care more about

voting for him than their friendships. It was nice of him to say that, but I'm not

going where you think I'm going with all this. Yes, I think you should keep politics separate from your friends and family.

People who love you can disagree with you, have different values than you, all of it.

I'm very kumbaya about the whole thing, really.

I have friends who I love, who are firmly on the left.

I don't have any leftist family, but that's really just sheer luck.

What I want to say though is that we've been talking on the show about making

friends in adulthood. And I actually think it's completely okay

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