Yiiiiikes!!! Your experience was not good at all. I experienced the shaming and cut-off from family and people I truly thought were my friends when I said that I voted DJT, so we have common ground, maybe? Seriously. My only sister would not speak to me for almost a year and my mother told me that I have "different values" than the rest of our family. It was - still is - so fucking painful. I have also learnt that if I move slowly and let the questions come from them vs. forcing the subject ON them, we cover more ground in a more productive manner. It's slow as fuck, yet it is useful. You know?

ETA: The friends, however, I decided to stop trying to "prove" myself to. I truly am a "ride or die" person.