My parent's opinion is welcome, and good friends can make suggestions, but this dispensation is given because my parents and friends are a smart and perceptive bunch. Also, they are incredibly valuable to me, and some of the few people I really love besides my dogs. Our mutual respect makes non-civilized actions virtually impossible. When family or friends give editorial comment I know it is done out of concern rather than control. Our federal government implements the opposite methodology.
Control is foremost and concern non-existent.
Their every word and action seems designed not to secure individual liberty but rather to curtail it, to fix that which is not broken, to micro-manage our lives. Hating governmental nonsense is as close as I get to a bipartisan argument. Politically, I have little truck with the dominant parties. Sometimes Jesse Helms strikes me as a tad left wing, other times I could make a liberal blush. Call me a Social Darwinist.