To think that my DH and I are growing apart due to political differences?

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DH and I met 15 years ago. We were both fairly liberal and centre in terms of politics and subsequent discussions were amicable. Fast forward all those years and he’s turned more to the right, whereas I’ve gone more to the left.

We differ now about almost everything: Brexit, refugees, unions and strikes. I feel that he’s become a real Tory bore to be honest. Has this happened to anyone else? Obviously we do try and be respectful of each other and have good debates about politics but fundamentally I feel that we aren’t as close as we once were. He’s a lot older than me too and he has become cynical, grumpy and argumentative whereas I’ve got a lot more energy and vitality to me. Sometimes I really crave a decent left wing professor to spend my evenings with. (Partly joking about that, but you get the gist)

Its interesting that posters mention all the murder and starvation under Stalin. I can't imagine any left leaning person I know minimising such a thing. In the same way I wouldn't expect a right leaning person to minimise Nazi crimes. At the moment though, we do have huge Tory support for mass deportations and the staggering number of people who have died due to Tory policies of austerity (estimated over 300,000) seems to be just ignored by their voters https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/mortality-rates-among-men-and-women-impact-of-austerity/#:~:text=It%20said%20approximately%20335%2C000%20additional,in%20England%2C%20Scotland%20and%20Wales.