I don’t have that problem...everyone in my family has always worked and never on entitlements. That said, I told both of my children that if I even think they voted or would vote for an evil demon like Obama, I’d disown both of them.
I’m used to it. My family (long-time liberal Democrats) disowned me when I “came out” as a Conservative in college.
That was 30 years ago. I have my own family now, and we’re ALL conservatives. . .
I have libtards in my family - I know how you feel
I just post the really blatantly obvious hypocracies- the ones they cannot argue with.
His arguments generally are as absurd as they are intractable.
Funny how the concept of “let’s not bring politics into this” only applies to conservatives.
My sister-in-law has never outwardly attacked me, but she avoids me whenever she can; she never drops to see me by when I'm in town visiting my parents. My brother comes over, sometimes some of my nieces and nephews come over. Once, she stayed upstairs when I visited their house, my brother saying she was studying for a final. Her Facebook reveals that she gets most of her news from the al Jazeera website. My nephew is a Marine and has been to the middle east and I found out from a friend (former friend) of hers that she and my nephew got into a huge fight over it. She's a huge lib.
Except for my brother and mother, all my relatives are “O” worshipers.
It’t too bad, because my Mother is having a 90th birthday in Aug. and I have to have these idiots in my house.
Oh well... we certainly CAN’T talk about politics.
So, yeah, it is tough out here right now.
I’ve become pretty skilled at seeing it coming. I have some very close and very liberal friends and we just seem to understand to leave the topic matters alone; or, if I feel like I have to say something, I preface it with “My view on this is very conservative....talking about the bullet train in CA...if this project goes ahead, just like the Bay Bridge, it will cost three times its projected cost, at least half the money will be stolen, some huge factor or factors of ongoing maintenance will have been overlooked by the so-called “expert” planners, and since the route will not connect LA & SF for 15 years, it will serve nobody in the interim and require taxpayer subsidy indefinitely”.
Not so successful with one brother. I just avoid the exercise, frankly. He’s astoundingly tolerant of differing views and has a way of starting a conversation on an equivocal, evenhanded basis, then turning like a vicious snake when it goes one comment too far. And it goes nowhere.
The other brother, we are entirely on the same page.
My six 4 legged “children” are extremely loyal. As long as I keep the fleas away and provide them with food and scratches, they are devoted to me. In some ways, they are far better than the 2 legged kind.
I have some extended family that are obots. I did get into it back in 08 with my BIL, who got caught up in all the hope and change crap. Fortunately, he saw the light before 2012.
I’ve been unfriended by a cousin, who couldn’t handle the truth.
I have a terrible time with my family in which I’m the eldest of 11, including 4 apparently socially liberal/politically conservative evangelical-Pentecostals who will not stand up to the others (all demlibs).
My parents helped found a RTL chapter way back and have voted dem for years now. My father watches MSLSD, reads the Boston Glob and Concord Vomiter...call themselves pro-life independents...as my father voted for McCain in 2000 primary...so he’s actually not voted once for a dem since of about Nixon era!
Extended family not much better....Concord area.
New England really is g-o-n-e.
Apologies to anyone that may have offended. I have a real problem with that kind of disrespect to an elderly family member.
Yes, I have a sister who, along with her husband, are rampant liberals. They have actively campaigned for 0bama, attended the inauguration in January. They are all into global warming, union rights, etc. Probably the only reason I put up with this is to spare my other sister from hurt of the fracture it would cause to write off the liberal one.
The very most hurtful interaction was when my son was in Ramadi, Iraq on his second tour with the USMC, Al Qaeda all around and trying to kill them every minute of every day, and she provoked an argument about we would never have been in Iraq if not for George Bush’s lies.
Now her son has joined up with the USAF, my only hope is that sequestration keeps him from flying much.
She is 52 years old, continues to blame our poor mother for her “victim” lot in life, believes the government is better equipped to make all of our choices for us, and has a deeply ingrained intellecutal snobbishness, because they are “so educated”.
It is very difficult.
Since there is no reasoning with them or any way (save a miracle)you can use logic and common sense (two words!) to make them understand, sometimes the best bet is to sever ties with those supporters. Even if they are family. Friends, family, whatever. You have to cut them loose. Get some business cards made up to stick under the windshield wipers of cars you see that have the obie stickers on them saying, “Thanks for your support. Not really!”. Or something else to let them know they screwed us. Twice!
How very timely!!!
We just had a “get together” with cousins who live in Singapore and get to the States once a year (company paid, of course). He considers himself a “man of the world”, internationally savvy and sophisticated. (His kids plan to go to college here, nevertheless.)
He hates guns (though he lives in one of the most police-state countries of the world) and sniffs at those of us who own them. Had to tell him in rapturous words how much fun I had two weeks ago at the shooting range and that when the SHTF, he’s family and we’ll come to his rescue! He sneered...
Pompous a**!!!!!!
I’ve had to deal with it with my sister’s husband. It hasn’t gotten to the “unfriend” stage yet - but it’s coming.
I just basically tell them, “Look, I’m not going to change your mind, and you aren’t going to change mine, so let’s just leave it at that.”
I don’t do facebook and don’t really get into deep political discussions with very liberal relatives.
I have a cousin who is so proud that she will be among the first 40 gay couples to be married in Minnesota at 3AM. Now they’re upset that the family won’t be attending.
Dumbasses. Most of the family lives here in Michigan and have no interest in going to Minnesota to watch them play pretend at 3 AM.