It is amazing how much intellectual effort people expend trying to define relationship rules within their ideological ingroup where you can mostly wing it based on trust, and how little on “ideological foreign policy” with local non-aligned neighbors where you actually need it.
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My “foreign policy” with Trumpies is: shun the MAGA-hat-wearing cultural Trumpies who I rarely run into in Blue Land anyway, and don’t-ask-don’t-tell detente with known Flight 93 crypto-Trumpies who live Blue lives.
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Default foreign policy with most other ideologies, which I’m mostly 100% comfortable with, is to simply avoid politics and talk about where to get the best tacos, or how to solve whatever shared problem we may be dealing with, at a pragmatic level.
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In a dense urban core in a big coastal city where you necessarily have to live in close proximity with lots of diverse groups (cultural, economic, ethnic...) Where I am in LA is practically a random sample of humanity at large. Not getting along with all sorts is not an option.
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