If you’re expressing thanks for what you have without acknowledging those less fortunate, often because of structural inequality, then you’re doing it wrong.
Actually… we should talk politics when gathering as a family.
Ignoring differing opinions is what is causing us to become more and more polarized.
Have the conversations, but we all need to keep in mind is that it is not a zero-sum game. We need to shift conversations about politics away from win/lose assumptions that identify one side as entirely correct and the other as entirely wrong.
Walk into the conversation knowing that the other person will walk away with the same world-view that they came in with… but maybe, just maybe you planted a seed in their mind.
I am actually bored of Thanksgiving dinner conversations. Neither side of the family has ever brought up politics. My wife has instructed me to never bring up controversial topics with her family and to disengage should they bring them up. I actually want to know what my relatives think about certain topics, but I will never know.
Gary Williams Premium Member over 1 year ago
Hopefully no mass shooting either.
FrankErnesto over 1 year ago
Be sure that somebody will slip some politics into the Blessing, or, more likely today, slip a Blessing in with a little campaigning.
Màiri over 1 year ago
It’s funny, the number of artists who draw quill pens as though they had steel nibs.
Alberta Oil Premium Member over 1 year ago
Bet a doughnut that there will be shootings on this sacred American day.. and shootings go hand in hand with politics.
ragsarooni Premium Member over 1 year ago
Amen to that,friends!
Perkycat over 1 year ago
What are we supposed to talk about then??? (Just kidding)
quixotic3 over 1 year ago
Policy is at the heart of politics.
If you’re expressing thanks for what you have without acknowledging those less fortunate, often because of structural inequality, then you’re doing it wrong.
sedrelwesley2 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Yes. Just give thanks…for SCOTUS’s decision about Trump’s tax returns! No longer under audit, I take it… Oops…
Aliquid over 1 year ago
Actually… we should talk politics when gathering as a family.
Ignoring differing opinions is what is causing us to become more and more polarized.
Have the conversations, but we all need to keep in mind is that it is not a zero-sum game. We need to shift conversations about politics away from win/lose assumptions that identify one side as entirely correct and the other as entirely wrong.
Walk into the conversation knowing that the other person will walk away with the same world-view that they came in with… but maybe, just maybe you planted a seed in their mind.
Bookworm over 1 year ago
Or at least, please don’t talk politics with your mouth full. Yes, [insert relative’s name here], I’m talking to you. Happy Thanksgiving.
s49nav over 1 year ago
Good luck, Mr. Heller
RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 1 year ago
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
People don’t talk about politics and now we have these right wing fascists trying to destroy democracy.
pamela welch Premium Member over 1 year ago
Happy Thanksgiving Joe ♥
spaced man spliff over 1 year ago
Our TG was pretty simple. My nephew is with the LA Fire Dept, so any politicking was about LA and Mayor-elect Karen Bass.
jader3rd over 1 year ago
I am actually bored of Thanksgiving dinner conversations. Neither side of the family has ever brought up politics. My wife has instructed me to never bring up controversial topics with her family and to disengage should they bring them up. I actually want to know what my relatives think about certain topics, but I will never know.