Let's all have a Happy Thanksgiving with our loved ones!!
Posted on 11/10/2024 8:38:22 AM PST by bigdaddy45
I didn’t go to an “aunt’s” 75th birthday party...not because she votes dem..but because she didn’t ST#U about how great obama was every time I saw her...which was only a few times a year.
She’s a friend of my aunt but I’ve called her aunt since I was a kid.
She’s extremely generous to the famiy with gifts and stuff.
But nah, I dont feel bad at all.
I don’t know why you find it so hard to kick people out of your life who support 9 month abortion, terrorists and chinese military and south american gangs that rape and murder our people being let into the country and take to calling anyone they don’t like “hitler”.
I find it pretty easy
me and wifey didn’t axe anyone from our lives for their politics. we prefer agreeing to disagree but in all honesty my wife is extremely nice and sweet to the “others” but is also kinda pushy on the question of WHY they are that way. not to be mean but just to make them back up what they believe with actual thinking. she is so sweet about it though no one ever gets mad. that’s mostly why in political encounters I let her do the talking. she’s great at it!
Sure, liberals cut off conservative family members. But morally, it’s not the right thing to do. So instead I’ve become an expert at changing the subject.
Liberal relative: Trump would be a disaster for America.
Me: I’m thinking of updating my cell phone. Any suggestions?
Notice that I didn’t offer a counter-argument. That rarely works when discussing politics or religion. Better that the person offers his own counter-argument. Then you can gently nudge him in the right direction.
Liberal relative: I can’t believe how expensive food has become.
Me: Most food moves by truck. And with the Keystone Pipeline closed, gas is more expensive.
No. I don’t hang around with morons or demon-worshipers.
These people need professional help, not enablers. They range from immature to sociopathic and need to be treated as such.
Life is much too short to develop the Cognitive Dissonance required to interact with them. There is nothing you can do to make them happy and appeasement only makes them demand more.
Since doing it, it's amazing how much more time and effort I can share with others who aren't messed up. You don't realize how much effort you're wasting with them under the 90/10 rule until you stop. I enjoy time and interactions with the 90 since dropping the 10 completely.
Some use the analogy of "anchors and sails". People can be either one - their choice. Why waste time with "anchors" when you can go forward and grow with "sails"?
Others may argue "turn the other cheek" and that outreach can get them to change. Others may have the patience and fortitude for that, and kudos to them. I had to accept that my own upbringing caused me to get sucked in and be, at best, an enabler. For their sake and mine, I can't be their enabler.
Yes. And my life has been better for it.
Liberal relative: Trump would be a disaster for America.
Me: See that Bears game last week?
Nope. I have, however, cut some people out my life because they were untrustworthy, angry jackasses who also happen to be liberals. Still good friends with a few libs who are relatively solid and mostly well-adjusted, but somewhat brainwashed. Sure would be nice to get back to country in which those of different stripes could poke fun at each other and laugh at the absurdity of life, as opposed to wanting those with opposing views dead. (For example, Bob Hope: ‘I don’t belong to an organized political party; I’m a Democrat!’)
Yes I have. But it isn’t because of who in particular they voted for etc. It is because I am afraid of them and the potential for unbridled rage.
So I think it is a justified removal.
Let's all have a Happy Thanksgiving with our loved ones!!
No. Nobody’s been cut out of my life, and that includes family and friends. We who are on opposite sides of the fence simply do NOT discuss politics. Period.
I have liberals in my family - they’re not as shallow and closed minded as national liberals. Or as easily manipulated...
I was raised better than that.
Also, I’m not nine years old.
We don’t talk politics in my family...at all. And never have. I believe (but can’t be sure) that my brother *and* sister vote Rat.I don’t know what hunch (if any) they might have about my voting habits.
Yep. All my kids which are girls aged 30, 37 and 42.
Leftist are more likely to unfriend people simply because they voted for Trump. When people on the right unfriend leftists, it’s because those leftists have become rude.
I’m perfectly fine remaining friends with a leftist if they are respectful.
As the old Italians say, “When the donkey brays, don’t answer it.”
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