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K.M.'s avatar

Interesting, my entire extended family is red red red (with the exception on one person and me who is center, purple) and we never, ever talk about politics. My family just shrugs things off, like, no biggie. Sorry, but I live in a college town and so am around tons of blues and conservatives are 1000X easier to be around these days!

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Lightwing's avatar

Conservatives are definitely easier to talk to. And I was a huge 60s era liberal. Independent now.

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Mike's avatar

Everyone has their own experience. I have a family member whoтАЩs a Trump supporter and clearly deeply, deeply frustrated right now. We all do our best to avoid talking about politics around him but ever so often he randomly explodes, starts saying things that are hard to ignore, and begins asking us questions which, letтАЩs say, are very difficult to answer without touching off controversy.

And once you get online and start talking with conservatives, the lid really seems to come off. IтАЩm kind of trying to stop at this point, because IтАЩm tired of being told over and over again that IтАЩm a тАЬcommunistтАЭ / тАЬnot real AmericanтАЭ and should be deported, or worse.

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