I would guess about 75% of my friends were liberal/democrat/left leaning as I was too. The other 25% were always willing to discuss and a rarity to hear name calling. As I became more Libertarian and then more conservative my estimate would be 80% of the lefty friends made it seem like I was their enemy. Then I became Christian and nearly lost the rest of the lefty friends. Hence, they were never really my friends and now I pray for them daily.