So, who in your family can you NOT talk politics with?

[LadyoftheRabbits]

For me, it's my aunt (lizziegrace's twin sister, ironically enough) and my great aunt. Used to be more, but they saw the light! :D

[idgiehkt]

1. if they are related to me by blood, that rules them out.

Gets lonely sometimes.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

4. :(

I'd imagine... we're here! :hi:

[qnr]

2. Well, considering I don't talk to anyone in my family period .... n/t

[LadyoftheRabbits]

I'm sorry, qnr...

:hug:

[qnr]

8. Thanks. I don't really know them anyway though, (long story) n/t

[idgiehkt]

5. gosh

that sucks. That must be really hard. I'm sorry.

When I was living in a different state from mine I'd go along time without talking to them too.

[qnr]

12. I guess I should think it's hard, but I don't. Anyway, as a

"social phobic" I pretty much don't talk to anyone else either. (not looking for commiseration or anything :) just stating a fact)

[idgiehkt]

32. we got each other!

I can relate.

But I am around my family now...so I have to deal with them. We are all in the same state again save one.

[qnr]

37. Yeah, it's unfortunate that you can't talk with them about it, since you

want to

[idgiehkt]

43. I don't want to talk to them about it

I'd just rather not hear their Rush Limbaugh talking points, because that puts me in the dilemna of should I just let it go or should I defend my politics. Since I'm always outnumbered, it's not fun.

[swag]

3. Mother, father, brother.

Fortunately for everyone, not one of them votes any more.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

6. Wow...

:( Some consolation...

[swag]

13. Yeah, Jon Tester might whip Abramoff crony Conrad Burns' corrupt ass

in the Montana U.S. Senate race in November.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

15. Excellent!

Sounds great :thumbsup:

[ZombieNixon]

7. I can at least discuss with everyone.

However, my immediate family are by far the most political of the bunch. My parents are more liberal than I am (which should tell you something about them :o). I think my aunt and uncle (my dad's older sister and brother, respectively) might have voted for Bush in 2000, but definitely not in 2004. So, yeah...I'd say we're pretty good. :)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

11. Sounds easy :P

And how on earth could your parents be any more liberal than you? 0.0 *blinks*

[ZombieNixon]

29. On occasion...

I have found myself defending the more conservative viewpoint over dinner (yeah, we invariably talk politics over dinner :eyes:). I think it's because I have more real world experience with politics than they do so I'm more of a pragmatist, so I'll often take the more perceptibly mainstream point in a debate and try and push it leftward rather than bust my ass defending a straight-up leftist position. :shrug:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

31. Good point

There are points of quibble (awesome word! ^.^ :bounce: ) I have with the liberal stance on things sometimes :P I'm trying to teach myself to think very carefully about everything I hear and see, both sides. It's no use quoting people like Vonnegut or Ghandi for me unless I'm really thinking for myself.

[ZombieNixon]

38. Yeah,

I try not to quote people (mostly because I can't remember who said what most of the time :P). Here in town I'm a flaming leftist, but my parents can make me look Republican. In Chicago politics, I'm pretty well in the mainstream, though, so it works out. :)

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

9. My moms side of the family. All of them are very religious conservatives

If religion or politics comes up, you just have to change the subject if you don't want to upset them

[LadyoftheRabbits]

10. Hi there, F.A.!

Your mom's a sweetie... sorry that it gets hard though, for you and her :\

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

19. Hey! While sweet she may be, she sometimes has trouble not talking about

politics when people get her mad (if your reading this mom, you've even admitted it! :hide: )

[LadyoftheRabbits]

20. Good for her!

I think our moms are a lot alike :D

[reyd reid reed]

14. I can talk politics with just about anyone in my family...

I generally don't, but I can. We might not agree, but we can at least usually be civil about it. Unless it's my youngest brother and he's been at the booze...then he's the type who'll argue while he's agreeing with you.

Best avoided at times like that.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

17. Hi there, RRR!

I'd imagine... I've found that drunk people are rather argumentative... :scared: :hi:

[bif]

16. Both brothers. Both racist Repub assholes.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

18. Goodness...

Sorry about that :(

[Breeze54]

21. I can only talk with my sister, sons and SIL;

the rest of them are %$#@ G$#%# B7786%%$# !! lmao!
And they 'claim' to be dems... :puke:
(I would talk to my parents but both have passed.)
If my parents could see & hear the crap they spout,
and the things they've done for the almighty $$,
they'd be rolling over in their graves!

I don't talk to any of them that are left though, if I can avoid it.
;)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

22. Well...

Luckily you can talk to your sister... my mom's sister was horrified when (only a couple of years ago) she discovered my mother to be a godless pinko commie... :scared: :rofl: It was actually pretty funny.

[grannylib]

23. My brother. It makes me really sad...we used to be really close (he's my

only sibling) but he's into moneymoneymoneymoney to the point that he's an embarassment.
I don't like to talk to him anymore, period...not just about politics...
It really is hard.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

24. I'm sorry, grannylib...

That must be very difficult :hug:

[grannylib]

27. Thanks, lelapin...it really does suck. I love him, I'll always love him,

but it just really hurts to think that his priorities are SO screwed up...
and I MISS him. I miss being close to him.
*sigh*

[Kajsa]

48. Oh grannylib, I've got the same story( almost)

My older brother, my only sibling, is super conservative
and suspicious of everyone.

I even blocked his e-mails, I couldn't take the crap
he was sending me anymore.

Yeah, it sure hurts. He practically raised me when I
was little and our mom had to work long hours.

We still talk, but not about politics!!
We have definitely grown far apart.

So, I hear ya, lady!

:hug:

[grannylib]

50. Aw, man... that is really sad...I know I hate hearing the phone ring, and

hoping it WON'T be him...every time we DO talk, he just HAS to make some dig. The last time we talked we were talking about a car for my youngest, and he made some snide comment about Priuses, being unsafe little tin cans...and true or not, the only reason he said it was to be snotty about hybrids, because of course, oil companies DESERVE to make money, they DESERVE to be rolling in obscene profits, God BLESS the holy free market system and the almighty dollar, as long as it's in the hands of those who have more than enough already...
*sigh* it just makes me sad, and as a Christian, I do worry about his soul, honestly...he's SO enamored of wealth. And he tries to paint himself as a VICTIM of it! He's always wanted money, and to be rich, and he works hard and all, and has earned what he has, but then he whines about his taxes and what a burden it is to worry about his investments, and on and on...
I blew up at him the last time he was going off about it, and told him if he was a victim, it was a self-imposed burden, and if it were so damn odious to be able to pay his bills and not have to worry about there being money left over at the end of the month, why then, he just ought to march right in to his employer and tell them how damn overpaid he is.

Yikes.

[Kajsa]

51. Some people don't realize

how good they have it,
until they lose it all.

I can't even argue with my brother, it gets real circular,
we get nowhere and it really hurts my mom who's 86 yrs. old.

I won't do that to her.
It's just not worth it.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

25. All of them really

My uncle is the most conservative in the family and probably votes for the right wing party that currently holds government but even he detests our Bushbot Prime Minister and detests Bush probably as much as we all do here

[LadyoftheRabbits]

26. Well...

At least he dislikes Bush :hi:

[pitohui]

28. my parrot seldom has anything of merit to say on the topic EOM

,

[LadyoftheRabbits]

34. :P n/t

[Haole Girl]

30. My step-monster (aka step-mother)

She called my Dad a traitor to his country and threatened to thrown him out of his own home because my Dad was smart enough not to vote for Bush.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

33. Oh my god...

That's something... :scared:

[Haole Girl]

35. She's a real witch...

Thank God I'm a grown woman and don't have to have many dealings with her!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

36. Oh yes!

:bounce:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. If they have any of the same DNA as me, I can't talk politics with them.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

41. That's a pity...

:(

[BreweryYardRat]

40. My mother.

Dumb as a post and refuses to see the light. We're talking about someone who believes Terri Schiavo wasn't brain-dead.

My dad's a Goldwater Republican, so the two of us agree on most things.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

42. :\

Sad about your mom :hug: But at least you and your dad are OK.

[BreweryYardRat]

46. Thanks for the sympathy.

:hug:

[WCGreen]

44. My brother.....

We have been at odds since he embraced the Reagan Republicans after passing the CPA in the mid 80's...

I had him standing at a polling location for Carter back in 1980...

Titles change everything....

[LadyoftheRabbits]

45. Ah!

It always blows my mind when CPAs don't get all the muddling of money in Republican adminanstrations, especially now and in Reagan's time. :(

[WCGreen]

47. I say how can you stand the sloppy way they look at the budget...

Last time I told him just because Larry Tate (Bewitiched, ask you mama) was a republican doesn't mean you have to be...

[LadyoftheRabbits]

49. ...

:rofl: Indeed!

[ContraBass Black]

52. My entire family is educated, informed, and international.

:D

[LadyoftheRabbits]

57. Good lord, you are lucky!

LD

[CaliforniaPeggy]

53. I can talk to my brother..........

But not very readily on politics........

And even though my parents are Republicans, they are moderates who loathe Bush........

We get along great these days.......

I haven't tried to talk to my brother on this topic for awhile.....:shrug:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

58. Hmm...

Well, at least you can speak to your parents easily :D

[mvd]

54. Grandmother, an aunt, and one of the aunt's children.

The relatives I'm closest to happen to be supportive of me, or at least anti-Bush.

My grandmother is pretty well off, and thinks she has to be a Repuke. Very ignorant of politics. That aunt and her husband are fundies, as is the son I'm talking about. At least the uncle has mellowed a little. I could actually talk to him about Iraq and civil rights recently.

My Democratic grandparents are both dead now. :-(

[LadyoftheRabbits]

59. I'm sorry they're gone, mvd...

:hug: But I'm glad you can speak with some relatives more easily now.

[mvd]

92. Thanks

My grandfather died this summer. He was 89. My grandmother died a while ago and was 80. I unfortunately only have the one grandmother left, and I'm just not close to her. :hug:

[Nicole]

55. My brother and sister

I fight with them anytime politics is mentioned so I quit mentioning it.

Fortunately I have a spare of each that I can talk to about anything. :toast:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

60. That's good!

:D

[Nicole]

79. Yes it is. n/t

[njdemocrat106]

56. A somewhat distantly related cousin

She's my grandfather's sister's daughter, and she's probably the biggest Freeper in the family (she just recently emailed my mom some anti-Cindy Sheehan crap.) About 4 years ago (for some reason, I remember it was around the 1st annniverary of 9/11), her family held a baptism party for her new grandson. I recently graduated from community college and was about to start attending Rutgers that fall, and we started talking about college and all that. I told her I was majoring in political science, and the inevitable question was asked: "Who'd you vote for President?" I answered Al Gore, and the response I got was "Ooh, somebody's been skipping their political science classes!". If it weren't for the convivial mood of the party, I would have flat out told her it's because of what I learned in political science classes that led me to vote for Gore. For the most part, though, she is a nice lady, and her family does throw some kick-ass parties :).

[LadyoftheRabbits]

64. *shudders*

You have more self control than I would give myself credit for... :P :hi:

[u4ic]

61. Everyone

We can talk about how stupid Bush is, and Ralph Klein, but we do differ on so many things.

Well, put it this way - they believe in the social safety net, universal health care, etc, but are socially conservative, so the gay marriage issue would exclude them from voting NDP, as would their distaste for immigrants. They hate the Liberals, so do they vote for the Cons? Apparently they hate them too; unless they don't always vote (not sure if they're consistent with it), they would most likely vote Conservative, and I think they see them as the old Tories, not the neocons they really are now.

I prefer to talk politics with friends.

edit: except an aunt I see once every few years; a woman in her 60's who is so up to date on politics, has an endless curiousity about the world...in short, me and her stick out like sore thumbs in the family. lol)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

65. Hmm...

Interesting contrast of beliefs in your family! I don't think I've encountered anyone yet who had that kind of meshing...

[u4ic]

75. Well, being Canadian,

I don't know anyone who don't believe in our health care system, or a strong social safety net. Most of us at one point in time have needed the latter. Everyone has used the health care system, my sister and her family of 4 boys most of all. Let's see, in the past year - son had car accident and had to go to emergency; another son cut a few fingers off in a work related accident and needed immediate surgery; another son had a knee operation, and then had appendicitis and needed to be hospitalized for a couple of days; her husband had an angioplasty; she herself has had every test in the book for stomach/gastrointestinal pain.

Then she complains their taxes are too high. :eyes: I told her that it's because they're earning alot of money (!); she should be grateful for that, and that she would have probably paid at least triple the amount of their taxes for one year on health care alone. Not including premiums. That will usually shut her up. Until the next crisis... :silly:

[tinfoil tiaras]

62. My uncle & his family

They're huge Rethugs. They keep Faux on like 24/7.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

66. Ugh...

:puke: My great aunt does too.

[tinfoil tiaras]

70. Bleh, I'm sorry.

& he has a picture of Ray-Gun in his study...:puke:

Why do people think he's so great? He really wasn't. He didn't do ANYTHING about AIDS & he had that whole Iran-Contra thing going on too. Plus, he thought ketchup was a vegetable. WTF thinks ketchup is a vegetable?!?!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

72. Someone who has always had their face in their...

backside. Honestly. What a dousche. *LOVE that word...*

[tinfoil tiaras]

74. Same here! Kinda...

:P

[Aristus]

63. My wife, the Republican. And anyone else in her family.

My family are all good liberal Dems. We LOVE to talk politics. B-)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

69. Wow...

You must have "no touching that" zones there!

[Aristus]

77. Um...*scratches head*...I don't know exactly what that means.

I adore my wife. She's a wonderful lady, and actually fairly progressive. But she comes from a wealthy "born-again" family, and Republicanism is hard-wired into the DNA.

I fell in love with her before I knew her politics; and after 11 years together and 7 years of happy marriage, I'm STILL in love with her.


Besides, she hates B*sh and the whole criminal cartel, and deplores the war. She also admires Bill Clinton's intelligence and eloquence, if not the man himself. I can live with that.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

78. Oh, no...

I meant only that you would stop talking about something if it came close to being political to keep the peace. I have no doubt she's wonderful, and I didn't know she herself was progressive. I read only that you and she differed strongly on politics. I didn't mean it that way... :(

[Aristus]

82. Okay, I didn't think you did, I just didn't understand the phrase.

:-)


Guess what, lelapin? My wife's favorite President is Jimmy Carter!

Yep. It's true. My wife is a true Christian, not one of these greedy power-mad charlatans. And Jimmy Carter himself being a true Christian has really earned her admiration. Every time he pops up on the news, she reminds me: "You know, he's still Constitutionally eligible for another term..."

[LadyoftheRabbits]

87. That's great!

And I didn't think of it that way... he is! I'd love to be able to say I voted for Jimmy Carter, like my mother did :D

[Initech]

67. My mom's side, we all agree on everything

Hell, even my 83 year old uncle is about as anti-Bush as it gets!

Dad's side, however, is a completely different story....

[LadyoftheRabbits]

71. That's good...

You have some you can still talk safely to :D

[asthmaticeog]

68. Freeperish uncle.

He's starting to come around some, but still, ugh, the less said the better. He's the only member of the whole extended family who's a Republican.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

73. One in every bunch,

or several as some poor DUers find. Maybe he'll come around completely :D

[asthmaticeog]

85. LOL! That would be nice.

But he's 80. He may be coming around on the war, and even on Bush, but everything else is probably pretty much etched in stone by now. :shrug:

[ComerPerro]

76. Everyone but my Girlfriend, Dad, and brother

[sakabatou]

80. My older brother and mom

[LadyoftheRabbits]

81. Does that get tough?

:shrug:

[sakabatou]

84. No

I just don't talk politics around them.

[Broken_Hero]

83. All of my wife's

inlaws on the Oklahoma side, hence another reason why I dislike Oklahoma.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

89. Interesting!

My aunt, the one we can't discuss politics with, lives in O.K.

[ohno]

86. Both of my parents

They love jesus, and by association Bush can do no wrong, since he talks to jesus every day. Yes, I've had it explained to me that way.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

90. Wow...

That's pretty interesting o.0

[Iniquitous Bunny]

88. None really.

My parents are solid Democrats (my dad's been Green then backed off when they started taking too much Repug money), my fiance's almost completely on par with me for everything (I'm less into gun control than he is though), and even my kids (including the two under 10) watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (DVRed by my also liberal ex for them) as often as they can.

My new FIL-to-be is super pro-environment, but then buys into a lot of right wing propaganda too, so he's about it- barely. :shrug: Fortunately, everyone else is fine.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

91. Sounds good!

:D