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Scold Day in Hell: Progressives Poised to Ruin Your Thanksgiving with Political Lectures

Progressives, again, coach their fellow travelers to never let a Thanksgiving gathering go to waste, encouraging them to deliver political lectures to their parents.

Scold Day in Hell: Progressives Poised to Ruin Thanksgiving with Political Lectures

Pajama Boy is back as social justice warriors urge fellow Progressives to deliver political lectures to their parents during their Thanksgiving gatherings. Why do SJW have to ruin Thanksgiving by making it a scold day in Hell?

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A two-phrase (six words) combo for handling political conversations at family gatherings:
1: Is that what you think?
2.Fascinating.
Because any tie you can imitate Leonard Nimoy is a good time to do so.

I would contend that the Problem of controversial topics at a Holiday to the INABILITY to have a CIVIL Conversation engaged in large Portions of Common Sense.;

Some families are very close knit, others rather less so. We can pick our friends but not all of our family members (per blood or marriage, or now, cohabitation). But as conservatives we know the “social contract” is initiated with the care and love of parents for their children, immersed within neighborhoods and communities and wider societies that need government to secure their rights; not a Rousseauian idealic but savage existence. Such families are needed to socialize and prepare children as virtuous and contributing members of society.
I have to wonder how 50% or so of them seem to be misguided on this point, given the approx. vote levels in this last election. And yet my (admittedly older) liberal friends all have solid families even as some of them exhibit great TDS but are not necessarily anti-deplorable. After all, almost all of them came from modest middle class situations themselves, achieving their successes with hard work and dedication to honesty and family.
How do we separate the semi-normal left of center Democrats from their more rabid leftist party members? Especially when the MSM carries water for the more extreme version of things? Right now it seems the only answer rides on the marketplace finding the diminished value in Ivy League and similar woke-ish credentials and seeking people with real talent and solutions that actually work, rather than the red vs. blue conflagration.

I love that the focus of the advice offered is about loving family. Family is scarce, precious and therefore, valuable. Still, I have a certain family member so bent on screaming at me that he couldn’t resist the opportunity to call me a disgusting Conservative when I dared wish him a happy birthday. This is a repeat performance since 1997.
We all have our limitations.
More turkey for those who appreciate it.
Cheers, you wise wonders of web-based wordsmithing! Happy Thanksgiving!

I agree that we need to have a better understanding of the real history of Thanksgiving. That it had nothing to do with Natives, and was really about the Pilgrims realizing that communism was a bad idea that nearly wiped out their colony, and it was through private ownership and personal responsibility that not only saved them, but also allowed them to flourish.

Your comment about communism does need to be more widely spread. I had forgotten reading about that aspect of their earlier days. If I remember correctly, the same issue and solution came up in the Jamestown colony in Virginia (1607 and later?),except it had a more oligarchic flavor, a few believing that they had been born with spurs to ride others under saddle.

Loved your link. Great answer(s) to pressing divisional subjects from ‘progressive’ diners. I am lucky enough to not have Turkey Day in CA this year, where people writhe with agony at the mere mention of Trump. I will be eating myself silly with like-minded friends in Alabama. And swilling wine. Lots of it. Pick your friends carefully. Makes life easier.

Sadly too many old friends of mine have succumbed to late stage Mental Libtardation. I hate that they changed, and luckily the Lefties I still hang with at least are able to get together without letting their politics prevent them from having a good time.
Family Bob will be with Brother Brother Bob and his fam tomorrow – looking forward to seeing my nieces who I haven’t seen since the Cough Cough broke out.
Happy Thanksgiving!

I get the point being made, I really do. The flip side is we are living in a moment in history, the fall of this nation, and I say that without a hint of hyperbole. Justice is not blind. We have a two tier system of justice. We have a royal class that is not subject to law and Government occupied by people who are enriching themselves at our expense and occasionally throw us peasants a loaf of bread to keep us in line. When I look at my daughters, 8 & 9, how do I look at a family member or friend who is willfully complicit in the destruction of our Republic?

I’m not looking to convert anyone to Conservatism, however there should be basic fundamentals we all agree on and many of them do not. They support suppression of Conservative speech. They believe those rioting have merit in their methodology for achieving their end goals because of past wrongs done to people and by people who are no longer on this planet. Universally, across the board, none of them see any misconduct in how this election took place but find me in contempt because I dared posed concerns questioning it.

This to me seems to me to be the very definition of irreconcilable differences. Not because I am intolerant, but because I am treated as a second class human being for thinking differently than the hive mind. I want for my daughters the nation I had growing up. How can I live with myself if I stand up and do nothing?

I came to an agreement with my Leftist relatives several years ago when I posed the question, “Is there anything I can say that would change you ideology?” When they answered “no” then I told them I would no longer discuss or listen to politics when they were part of the conversation. I only have so many precious minutes here on Earth so I don’t see the point in wasting them. This doesn’t mean I won’t still be fighting the good fight, I just won’t do it against a team that has already predetermined the outcome.

What Thanksgiving gatherings? We’re allowed to have those?? 😮
Somehow I don’t think the incorrigible killjoys have thought this through. One of the blessings of this year’s Thanksgiving will be some much needed goodwill, joy, and peace in the place of crazy relatives’ sanctimonious rants. Pass the gravy and the sweet, sweet freedom.
Thank you, gentlemen, for the great work you do confronting this lunacy. May you enjoy a brief respite from it all and a fine Thanksgiving!

Does what is being discussed here have anything to do with the Greatest Generation not sharing enough of what they experienced with their children?
I have a small indentation just below my shoulder where those childhood vaccinations went in.
It feels as natural as my belly button.
How much did I learn about Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chicken Pox, Small Pox and Polio from my parents? Some, I guess.
How much did I learn about them from books at school. More, probably.
How much from books I looked up after I was done with school? From the photos on display at a local hospital with those Iron Lungs and people in them, and from an episode of All Creatures Great And Small about the local mayor with the visible limp and the dog with the improperly treated broken leg (the vets re-break and reset it with the hopes that can fix it – it does).
More, or more clearly remembered at any rate – although what I did was probably a confirmation of what I had learned rather than a learning of something new.
But I bear in mind I am naturally curious. Were that not the case, and if there had been no adults around willing to talk about being terrified (and people were quite terrified) by Polio.
Did (sadly, here I have to speak in the past – living Holocaust survivors are as rare as living WWI veterans and even WWII and probably Korean Conflict and Vietnam War veterans) Holocaust survivors tell their children when they were growing up about their past?
Have people who have escaped from Communist countries always done the same?
It is difficult to know where your parents are at if they wait “until it is the right time” tell you where they have been. It is actually easier to learn a foreign language (and probably ballroom dancing) before you are a teenager.
I suspect learning why your Mom “makes do” as much as does and as often as she does or how many jobs your father worked to pay the mortgage should happen earlier in life.
Minor example of this: The Last Picture Show.
There are some power scenes in that film.
The channels excavated and lined with stone by the monks who built Tintern Abbey to channel fresh water in and water made dirty out, following the method used to built Roman legion camps and towns were thought of as escape tunnels when people stopped teaching the method, and then forgot what they had never been taught.
And the water tunnels excavated first by the monks at the Abbey in Exeter then the town to pipe in fresh water from a nearby spring were abandoned, the lead pipes removed for some other purpose, forgotten, and again thought of as escape tunnels.
Their purpose was forgotten and it took about 70 years of the Early Scientific Age between the Enlightenment and the Late Victorian Age for anyone to realize the link between Cholera and Fresh Water that those monks did not know but grasped enough because the Romans did long before them.
Discuss all of this at your Thanksgiving Dinner?
Of course not!
But find some time to, so you can discuss more prosaic and fun things at Thanksgiving.
Heck the kids might decide to leave college and start learning!

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