Yeah, it feels much more direct and impactful to me now (which is a privilege, of course; I've always been a white woman of moderate means in a solid-blue state, so I was always relatively safe.)
My mom and dad are center-left. My husband is a libertarian (an actual consistent one, not a techbro lolbertarian) and while he and I disagree profoundly and sometimes loudly about how one accomplishes things, we do actually agree on the ideal end-state for society/the world (people are safe from rule-of-the-strong, everyone has food/shelter/clothing/education/health care), which makes it work. But every single one of our friends is liberal Democrat to way left, and he often feels, I think, crushed and dismissed as intrinsically Wrong And Bad (because the left can be just as bad about that as the right), and so it sometimes gets fraught.
My grandmother's housemate is a racist asshat and a bully, and unfortunately she lives in Florida so I partially blame her for 2016 (and 2018), and in large part the political ban is so that I don't absolutely throw the fuck down with the housemate--that in itself wouldn't be a problem, but she would take it out on my grandmother, and I refuse to countenance that. I do call out shit she says that's awful because I refuse to let it pass, but I don't start the fights, ever.
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My mom and dad are center-left. My husband is a libertarian (an actual consistent one, not a techbro lolbertarian) and while he and I disagree profoundly and sometimes loudly about how one accomplishes things, we do actually agree on the ideal end-state for society/the world (people are safe from rule-of-the-strong, everyone has food/shelter/clothing/education/health care), which makes it work. But every single one of our friends is liberal Democrat to way left, and he often feels, I think, crushed and dismissed as intrinsically Wrong And Bad (because the left can be just as bad about that as the right), and so it sometimes gets fraught.
My grandmother's housemate is a racist asshat and a bully, and unfortunately she lives in Florida so I partially blame her for 2016 (and 2018), and in large part the political ban is so that I don't absolutely throw the fuck down with the housemate--that in itself wouldn't be a problem, but she would take it out on my grandmother, and I refuse to countenance that. I do call out shit she says that's awful because I refuse to let it pass, but I don't start the fights, ever.