A Guide To Surviving Your Miserable Leftist Guests At Thanksgiving Dinner.. Eddie Scarry

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A Guide To Surviving Miserable Leftists At Thanksgiving Dinner
Eddie Scarry

Major publications each year publish those insipid “how to handle your racist uncle during the holidays” articles. They’re absolutely useless because nobody in America has a racist uncle — and if they do, they aren’t actually worried about him. But here’s something most Americans almost certainly do have: a miserable left-wing relative or close family friend who shows up at least once each year to make everyone uncomfortable.

The discomfort these guests impose has a range. It can be so subtle the victims aren’t even sure what’s causing it, or it can be so overt it results in verbal or even physical conflict. But it’s real, common, and a threat to holiday joy for all.

The danger most commonly manifests itself in the passive-aggressive dinner- or drinks-time dare. The septum-pierced undergrad who dares you to have a difference of opinion on Gaza being an “open-air prison.” The cat-lady aunt who dares you to say otherwise on the “threat to democracy” (anyone who disagrees with her, ie. you). The 30-something cuckold who dares you to have the wrong answer to his intrusive query of who “got their booster.”

They say what they want with impunity. The expectation is everyone present accepts it to get along. If not, the belief is you’ll be outsmarted and overwhelmed by their mastery of argument. Should they be countered with a superior, more popular perspective, the game isn’t over. They’ll scream. And just as likely, they’ll cry. Evening ruined. Mission accomplished.

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[catfish1957]

I don't know any relatives who are left leaning....  or they don't want to engage arguing politics with me.

Plus the probabilty of me opening my checkbook is directly proprtional to level that they piss me off.

[Cyber Liberty]

If I were asked about my booster at drink-time, I'd just hold up my short glass of Whiskey (neat) and say "I enjoy a booster every day!"

It's unlikely, because I already brushed those people off my invitation list years ago.  They are not fans of Uncle Cyber.

[cato potatoe]

I don't know any relatives who are left leaning....  or they don't want to engage arguing politics with me.

Plus the probabilty of me opening my checkbook is directly proprtional to level that they piss me off.

I have some libs in the woodpile, but none of them bring up politics during a family reunion.  That's what I don't understand ... why bother to show up, if you're just going to pick a fight? 

[jafo2010]

Wife is out of the country, so I am not cooking for the liberal kids.  I told them find somewhere else to go for Thanksgiving.

Every year, I bite my tongue, well screw it.  I am having dinner with friends who are conservative!

[Free Vulcan]

I have some libs in the woodpile, but none of them bring up politics during a family reunion.  That's what I don't understand ... why bother to show up, if you're just going to pick a fight?

Leftists full of their crusader god-complex must let everyone around them know that they are the lowly unwashed heretical masses that should exist only to grovel at their feet.

[goatprairie]

I remember talking to one of my (sadly now deceased) very liberal, younger brothers over the holidays. After exchanging a few seasonal pleasantries I would bring up sports or movies or something.
I would get a pause for a few seconds and then my brother would launch into a tirade about how Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and assorted conservative baddies were destroying the country.
My usual response would be to pause myself for a few seconds and then wish him a merry Christmas or whatever and then hangup.
One of the weird positions of liberals is that conservatives just don't realize how they're voting against their own interests by not voting for Democrat pols who want to tax the bejeesus out of everything that isn't nailed down....or is nailed down.
These liberals firmly believe that if not for Fox News and conservative talk show hosts, people who voted for Republicans for decades before conservative talk radio and Fox News came along would be demanding a Marxist-style government.
Don't conservatives understand how great and wonderful Big Government is?
It's very difficult to get libs to understand that Big Government is not as great as they think it is.

[libertybele]

Why ruin Thanksgiving??? Why invite leftists in the first place or accept an invitation from one??

One side of our family is conservative; descendants of a signer of the Constitution who also signed the Declaration of Independence as well, and a couple are military -- the other side is also conservative and cousins that I've never met or haven't seen in decades, I don't need to worry about.

[libertybele]

I remember talking to one of my (sadly now deceased) very liberal, younger brothers over the holidays. After exchanging a few seasonal pleasantries I would bring up sports or movies or something.
I would get a pause for a few seconds and then my brother would launch into a tirade about how Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and assorted conservative baddies were destroying the country.
My usual response would be to pause myself for a few seconds and then wish him a merry Christmas or whatever and then hangup.
One of the weird positions of liberals is that conservatives just don't realize how they're voting against their own interests by not voting for Democrat pols who want to tax the bejeesus out of everything that isn't nailed down....or is nailed down.
These liberals firmly believe that if not for Fox News and conservative talk show hosts, people who voted for Republicans for decades before conservative talk radio and Fox News came along would be demanding a Marxist-style government.
Don't conservatives understand how great and wonderful Big Government is?
It's very difficult to get libs to understand that Big Government is not as great as they think it is.

Ya, I once had a neighbor who was very liberal, confined to a wheelchair and was convinced that conservatives were going to throw him over a cliff and take away the medical benefits he was receiving and tax him into the poor house.

[Hoodat]

Surviving?  It is the highlight of my year.  I can't wait to sit down with those idiots and start asking questions about why their policies don't work.

[Fishrrman]

One thing I don't have to worry about.

[LMAO]

Surviving?  It is the highlight of my year.  I can't wait to sit down with those idiots and start asking questions about why their policies don't work.

The “right people” weren’t in charge of them. This has been the standard excuse every time a socialist idea fails

[LMAO]

I have some libs in the woodpile, but none of them bring up politics during a family reunion.  That's what I don't understand ... why bother to show up, if you're just going to pick a fight?

I have a sister-in-law that would bring up her political beliefs at every family gathering until people finally said something

What’s funny is that was my mother in law  and father-in-law( her own parents) who put the kibosh on that

[Cyber Liberty]

Why ruin Thanksgiving??? Why invite leftists in the first place or accept an invitation from one??

One side of our family is conservative; descendants of a signer of the Constitution who also signed the Declaration of Independence as well, and a couple are military -- the other side is also conservative and cousins that I've never met or haven't seen in decades, I don't need to worry about.

I have not invited miscreants to dinner, but I have not had many I have to employ that upon.  The number, while low, is not zero.

[240B]

Leftists full of their crusader god-complex must let everyone around them know that they are the lowly unwashed heretical masses that should exist only to grovel at their feet.

@Free Vulcan

That is it exactly.

Liberals validate their enlightened divine self-anointed 'superiority' by protesting and peaching. Example - There is absolutely NO benefit or fun being a gay vegan who is gluten free and drives a Prius unless everyone else in the world knows about it. Without the humble-brag it would all be miserable.

They live to be 'different'. They live for attention. They want everyone to know that they are fighting the good fight against God and man, against reality and natural nature and everything else. They are at war with the world as it exists and seek to change the very nature of existence. This is all, of course, futile in the extreme.

In five minutes of conversation with a Liberal, you will know: how they like to have sex, which foods they eat, which foods they would never eat, which car they drive, who they voted for, how many tattoos and piercing they have, how close we all are to the end of the world, why they never want to have children, and what they think about SATAN ... um ... the Liberal version of Satan, which is ... (dare I speak his unholy name?) ... TRUMP!, the evil one.

They have to preach. Otherwise there is no point, no fun, and only misery in how they live their lives. They live to 'proselytize'. They want to make everyone else as miserable as they are, even by force if necessary. They are misery evangelists, just as zealous, fanatical, and dangerous or more so than any other religious cult.