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Star Member shadowrider (4,888 posts) I'm going to have Christmas dinner with relativeswho all voted Trump. I'm going to be outnumbered about 30 to 1.I don't like to argue but I know someone is going to start talking cheeto.Do I argue back or just let it go?I've been having dinner with them for the last 20 years.This is the first year I'm dreading it...
Warpy (90,399 posts)1. You could prepare to leave Either go home or decamp to a motel or come back in an hour and ask them if they're done. You could tell them you have no intention of ruining the holiday with politics, how about them (insert sports team)?Or you could come down with the flu and not go at all.
Star Member shadowrider (4,888 posts)5. I'll go. But changing the subject is good.I may just start out saying anyone that talks politics and I'm outta here.It's worth a shot.
Star Member pangaia (9,290 posts)2. Go armed to the teeth with facts and history. The stand your ground.That's what I have decided to do at our townhouse board meetings.Was not pleasant at the first one, but I refuse to let these f*ckers get away with blathering their ignorance into the air I must breathe.
Star Member MineralMan (88,816 posts)4. In my family, there are rules against discussions of politics and religion at family holiday gatherings. We just don't do it. Instead, we talk about what we have in common, which is family. It's been a rule for as long as I can remember, and any violations are quickly ended by common assent.
Star Member PoindexterOglethorpe (750 posts)6. My honest question to you is: Why go? Why subject yourself to such misery.If you really see no way out of it, can you convince whoever is hosting that no politics should be discussed at dinner? Although if everyone else is a Trump person, I can't see that happening.Of course, as Pangaia said, arm yourself with facts. And do not back down.I still say, don't go. But if you do,
HockeyMom (13,714 posts)12. My husband's got the opposite problem He will be having dinner with his wife, two daughters, and their spouses, all of whom voted for Hillary. He knows better than to bring up politics, with us. Five against one.I suppose you can just change the subject to keep the peace, as the only Republican in our family has done for years. Husband doesn't like all these women ganging up on him, including his lesbian DIL. SIL won't help because he voted for Hillary too.You have my sympathy.
Star Member SecularMotion (7,368 posts)21. You could always talk about guns
Star Member shadowrider (4,888 posts)23. I could but they aren't gun owners.
BigBadDem (29 posts)32. There are several threads you could refer to regarding what to do 1. Go and shame every single one of them. Never back down and never apologize2. Disown your family. Real liberals must draw the line and disown family members that support racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia and all the other deplorable things of that side.3. Go and be chummy with them, but don't come back here, and don't call your self a liberal because this stuff is not tolerated at all on our side!
Star Member ismnotwasm (30,066 posts)34. What the actual **** dude?
BigBadDem (29 posts) 32. There are several threads you could refer to regarding what to do 1. Go and shame every single one of them. Never back down and never apologize 2. Disown your family. Real liberals must draw the line and disown family members that support racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia and all the other deplorable things of that side. 3. Go and be chummy with them, but don't come back here, and don't call your self a liberal because this stuff is not tolerated at all on our side!
Alright come clean, which one of you is this?
My advice to you is to alienate your entire family. They are scum sucking ReTrumplicans that do not deserve your exalted, enlightened presence. Throw your dinner across the table and scream that they are worthless idiots that have brought this country to its knees. Then storm out.Trust me... you will show them and turn them back to the dem side.
Star Member PoindexterOglethorpe (750 posts)6. My honest question to you is: Why go? Why subject yourself to such misery.If you really see no way out of it, can you convince whoever is hosting that no politics should be discussed at dinner? Although if everyone else is a Trump person, I can't see that happening.Of course, as Pangaia said, arm yourself with facts. And do not back down.I still say, don't go. But if you do
BigBadDem (29 posts)
I would just add to the advice, throw your dinner plate, fully loaded, against the wall, narrowly missing someone's head. Democrat outreach! #Caringsharingcompassion
Amazing how, all of these infants, seem to have nothing but Trump voters for relatives.Strange..... Oh, you're just such a sPeCiaL!!!11 child, aren't you?
Forgot Number four4. Go home and call local NVDK or STASI office to turn family in for bad speak or contraband.
