Do you and your family discuss politics on Thanksgiving if it comes up?

[cboy4]

I answered #2, but I'm curious how this works for everyone else's family.

I will say I'm lucky that the ratio of DEMS in my family is about 75-25. (Yay!!)

[spindrifter]

1. Of course we do!

But it's like preaching to the choir.

[Kerrytravelers]

3. It's like preaching to the choir when we're with my side.

When we're with his... :puke:


(Mr. kt is a total Democrat all the way! Just not his family. They're fundy fruitcakes. :puke:)

[Quantess]

2. yes, but only when the token republicans have gone home.

:)

[cboy4]

5. . . .

:spray:

[Quantess]

11. hey, our family is blessed. We only have a couple R's.

Something I'm THANKFUL for.

[MrCoffee]

4. MrsCoffee has threatened me to within an inch of my life if i even try...

and she's scrappy. she could take me.


so i'll be a good boy.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. This year we likely will --

as the only republican in the family can't make it - she's enjoying the benefits of *'s economy too much to be able to afford to drive down from New York.

[InternalDialogue]

7. Sure, but I don't bring it up.

I'm a born diplomat, so I work my way from their perspective, which always starts good.

Then I start using facts, and everyone else wants to abandon the conversation. Sticky things, those facts.

I believe the operative term has become, "Well, let's just drop it, OK?"

Everyone stays friendly, but... well, you know.

[KyndCulture]

Only mashed taters and gravy on the wall would be a calm disussion.

I'm thinking knives and serving implements sticking out of body parts.

[MrCoffee]

9. put the turkey leg down, Grandpa!!!

:rofl:

[KyndCulture]

10. Yeah and my mother would use the turkey leg as a bat -

to sling a bible at me. But I can out run her. :rofl:

[MrCoffee]

15. as long as you don't slip in the mashed potatoes

can i get an invite to your house for Christmas???

:rofl:

[greeneyedboy]

8. depends on which branches we're talking about.

members of my immediate family are all relatively well informed. extended family, not so much.

[Greyskye]

12. Voted 'Hell No'...

Thanksgiving is at my bro-in-laws house. He's a chicken-hawk ditto-head, who amazingly enough is really intelligent outside of the political realm (engineer-scientist at HP). I'm sure my father-in-law and I will have some quiet congratulations for each other on the side, but mom-in-law has forbidden political discussion at family gatherings for the sake of the furniture.

It's bizarre, the whole family is politically very liberal; except for the son who is the political black sheep of the family. He and I manage to get along by sticking to topics involving high-tech, home theater, movies and TV. It gets ugly fast, otherwise. I'm really hoping that he or his wife somehow bring up politics tomorrow. I'm really in the mood for a good gloat, to go with my Thanksgiving bloat. :evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

28. Bloat and Gloat. I love it.

We should ALL do that this Thanksgiving. :rofl:

[tinfoil tiaras]

13. When it's the majority of my mom's family, yes

but when my repuke uncle comes into the picture...um...no.

[OregonBlue]

14. Actually, my family are ALL yellow dogs. I have to work to keep them

from going on their rants against these crooks. Sometimes it's nice just to have a nice relaxing non-political day!!

[etherealtruth]

21. Same here!

From young to old

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Hey, you're talking about tradition here . . . n/t

[T Town Jake]

17. My family falls in the #2 category, particularly my sister & brother-in-law...

...who are big time GOP (although she was raised better, I'm always teasing her). This year the get-together is at our home, and since we had a bet on who would take the House & Senate, my sis owes me a bottle of Crown Royal and a six pack of Blue Moon (the Blue Moon was for the House; the Crown was for the Senate).

I'm going to pick her and her family up at the airport later today, but my wife talked to her last night and she's ready to "pay up." I can't wait to hear what my brother-in-law has to say - he once told me that the GOP would hold Congress for the next "fifty years." I'm going to remind him of that while I'm mixing my first C & C of the evening...

[Flirtus]

18. Five households, four separate dinners.

Great to have friends!

[subterranean]

19. Don't know

I haven't had Thanksgiving dinner with my family in 14 years.

[CrispyQ]

20. My sister & I have told mom to keep her frickin' mouth shut this year.

Last year, while everyone was enjoying chatting & visiting, she suddenly shouted out, "Well you'll be happy to know I'm sick of Bush & the whole Iraq mess. I think we should just nuke the whole middle east area & be done with it." To which my sister replied, "Have a drink & shut up Mom!"

:rofl: I love my sister!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

22. Nope-other

We don't do family dinner.

All the relatives are either dead or too far away or we don't get along with them. The ones we don't get along with are conservative bullying fundies (my SO's kids) or on my side, I have rich conservative Methodist relatives who might as well be fundies. We have nothing in common.

We do our T day at our fave Unitarian church potluck. And I take my fabulous chocolate cream cheese pie.
:9

[porphyrian]

23. Right now, everything is political.

Ignoring or denying this only worsens the problem. Things need fixing, right now, and it won't happen if we can't even talk about it.

[jgraz]

24. HELL YES -- and it always ends up with mashed potatoes on the wall

[PreacherCasey]

25. In vino veritas...

In my family, once the bottles are opened; LOOK OUT!

:toast: A Happy Thanksgiving to all!

[leftofthedial]

26. we're all hardcore Democrats

we are gonna have a field day

[bleedingheart]

31. same in my family....

there isn't one person who likes the republicans...

[grizmaster]

27. we always talk politics

in between teling embarassing stories about each other

[drmom]

29. Oh yeah...

...but luckily almost all of the family is very liberal...and the few who are repubs are not very articulate.

[seabeyond]

30. i cant do it in my family. i am way more informed. they resort to name

calling. and we all get pissed. NO POLITICS allowed. also, we kicked their as so they are even more sensitive now.

[Nicole]

32. Other: All of the above

Different conversations at different houses. Fortunately option #1 is the norm.