It can be done. (arguing politics with family that has a 180 degree different view than U

My nephew's wife graduated from college today and I went to a little reception for her and afterwards had dinner with my sister (nephew's mother--nephew and wife had friends with a pool so they ate pizza and partied in the pool while we old farts just went out for Mexican food). Afterwards we went back to her home and talked a while. Eventually we got around to politics. I'm a Trump/anyone that is anti-establishment that will take a flamethrower to Washington guy. She is a diehard Biden supporter who thinks Trump is the worst person on earth (To be fair she has always been a Democrat. She spent her teenage years protesting the Vietnam War.) I despise Biden as much as she despises Trump. We "debated" for ten or fifteen minutes. She did not change my mind one iota. I did not change her mind one iota. Eventually she started getting a headache and I could feel my blood pressure spiking which is something to avoid when you six weeks out of having a heart attack.


We switched the conversation to other subjects but you know what we did at the end of the day when I left to go back home? We hugged each other. She told me to take care of myself and I told her to take care of herself. No political armegeddan lightning bolts struck our family tree. No one was throwing anything at each other. No one was threatening to never talk to anyone ever again. No one was being blackballed from family get togethers. We let it go like grown mature adults. This isn't that hard if you don't have your priorities stuck up your arse. It's not hate speech people. It's disagreement speech. It's not the same thing, especially between siblings who have been handling it their whole lives. Both of us have 190 proof stubborness running through our veins but we are family first, political advisors second. There are a lot of people in this country that should try remembering this.


(Ran out of space and had to go Princehand in the title.)