Discuss politics at your Thanksgiving Dinner...

[MiHale]

Save money on Christmas presents.

[Niagara]

1. I've honestly never started politics at the in laws.

But I'm sure proud of myself of being the one who bluntly lays out the facts and generally has the last word.


Needless to say, my SO doesn't get invites from his own family during the holidays because of me.

[Xavier Breath]

2. We're hosting family for Thanksgiving.

We're mostly a moderate group which leans Democratic, but we do have one lefty (me), one conservative (Mom) and one libertarian (a cousin) amongst us. In the past there have been dust-ups at holiday time over varying topics, so after everyone arrives I will respectfully suggest topics that need to be off limits for us to enjoy the day:

1) Anything relating to the Middle East, and
2) Anything relating to the University of Michigan and/or Ohio State.

Seriously, those would be the hot-button topics. You could say we share an over-inflated importance regarding college sports, so at least that unites us.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. Only my wife and me this year and we agree on everything except

green bean casserole!

[Xavier Breath]

5. I neither love nor hate the dish

and make my compromise by just scraping the crunchy onions off the top and eating that. For the record, I do not leave the beans behind because that would be uncouth.

[Permanut]

4. That's been a pattern in our family..

Ever since Mango Mussolini came down the escalator.

[Emile]

6. We always do, but we're all Democrats.

[CTyankee]

7. The more wine is dispensed, the more interesting the conversation! You hafta drink, just to get thru the meal...

and sometimes the snark comes out in people. Sometimes the toasts are revealing! "I'd like to propose a toast to my ex who is here with us tonight..." well, you can guess how that might turn out.

[Iggo]

8. I retired from Thanksgiving in my late 40s or early 50s.

It’s glorious.

[highplainsdem]

9. My family can't discuss politics or religion at family get-togethers. Too many arguments.

We all know one another's views and beliefs. For the most part, we love one another anyway. (The exceptions to that are a few people idiotic enough to get into rather public arguments about politics on Facebook, so they'd feel publicly shamed if they lost an argument. I hate FB.)

[DFW]

10. Americans, Germans, Austrians and Dutch at one long table

And one single religious person among us (about 20 of us).

You can bet we will not be discussing the weather, sports, art or cars!