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Sure. Two of my closest friends are Republicans-- one of whom is also ultra-Orthodox, and one is a Republican-leaning Independent. One of my best friends is an Anarchist agnostic with atheist leanings who is so far to the left of me that he'd need a 2-hour motorcycle ride from Che just to make it back to "liberal."
The two Republicans and the Independent and I were just very careful not to discuss politics until we had other supports for our friendship, and we already trusted one another very much. The Anarchist just accepts that nobody agrees with him, politically, and he is respectful about the religion thing.
If people make efforts on both sides, you can get along with lots of different sorts. It just takes some care.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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