Genuinely curious how political discussions turned out at your thanksgiving dinner table.

An unofficial poll of my family has MANY hating Trump but just as MANY voting for him as those that voted for Hillary. The others voted for candidates they couldn't tell you anything about and my brother wrote in a vote for himself.

I showed great restraint by not stabbing anyone. No one has a better temperament than me.

We all had different opinions but by discussing our opinions over the holidays we all came to the same logical conclusion.

That the conversation would never end?

That the conversation would never end?

Was and is never brought up.

I'm not sure when someone's personal political views became something to bring up out of the blue. I was taught early on that politics and religion are personal things that shouldn't be forced on anyone in polite conversation.

Now it's commonplace.

Even on this board there weren't any political threads prior to 2007.

I just change the subject to "Jay Cutler really sucks doesn't he?" but it doesn't get the same disagreement it used to.

Purdue Football.

I actually have a rule I don't talk about politics in person with anyone.

Because you can't run and hide behind an endless stream of irrelevant posts to distract when they show you your own ass within ten seconds?

Rick certainly doesn't need anyone to defend him, so I say this only for cathartic reasons: shut the fuck up, douche.

Because you can't run and hide behind an endless stream of irrelevant posts to distract when they show you your own ass within ten seconds?

Both sides of my family talk about both politics and religion at almost every big family dinner.

My father, a hard core democrat, and my aunt, a hard core republican, used to have some doozies back in the day.

One time we were having dinner and my aunt told my dad, "I need some financial help, could you loan me 1500 dollars?" My father told my mother to get her checkbook and write her a check. As my mom is writing the check my aunt tells my dad, "Oh thank you so much, you don't know how much this means to me as I have always wanted to go to the Republican National Convention."

The look on my dads face as he realized he had been had was priceless

politics on the holidays isn't the problem. it's what politics people focus on. if everyone would watch and debate what is going on in their local jurisdictions the entire country would be very different. the feds should be nothing more than a reflection of whats going on with the people, but theyre not because people dont fight over what their community is doing... everyone just focuses on a dozen or so people at the top- people that cant do jack shit for the millions of us out there because no matter what they chose, a bunch of us won't like the decision.

Rick certainly doesn't need anyone to defend him, so I say this only for cathartic reasons: shut the fuck up, douche.