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| The Annual NYT Column - How To Ruin Thanksgiving |
| 2016-11-21 |
| Every year, it's the same thing - lecture your relatives from the left. Here’s what we learned after the ugliest presidential campaign in modern times. The voters you blame, whose ballots -- for Clinton or Trump -- so mystify and offend you, are not a distant, unfamiliar America. They are sitting across the dinner table, or the office cubicle, or the bed. They are your parents, your siblings, your friends. Who wants to have that tough conversation, about why they voted as they did and about how it makes you feel? Just about nobody. So we avoid it. But like it or not, these people are in your life. The holidays are upon us. And deep down, you may actually want to have this talk. You may need to have this talk. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #5 Bobby, my daughter considers me a racist, sexist pig. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-11-21 21:06 |
| #4 Just point out that many historians consider Edith Wilson to be the first woman president of the country, if its any consolation. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-11-21 18:10 |
| #3 I don't think house sharing with a growling mama bear and her cubs is a good thing. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-11-21 13:45 |
| #2 An excellent practical approach. Especially them ones in the bed. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-11-21 13:21 |
| #1 A good, practical approach. Ask questions, show respect. On the other hand, I think my wife, and especially my daughter, are still in a state of shock and DO NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-11-21 13:01 |