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Why Does the Left Have to Ruin Every Holiday?

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Every major holiday unleashes a flood of articles from left-wing blogs advising their readers “How to Survive the Holidays,” and their horrible, horrible families. (Mostly by telling them to inject left-wing politics and Obama Talking Points into every family occasion.)

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Also:

And many, many more

Note the language. Not “How to engage” but “How to survive.” Because, I guess all those Heteronormative Microagression Triggers and contrary opinions are too much for the Special Snowflakes to even live through.

“Thanksgiving dinner is stressful for just about everybody…” reads one of them. No, it isn’t. For normal psychological together people, it’s just about eating and giving thanks. Is that why leftists hate it? Because gratitude is a difficult thing for the spoiled, entitled, and perpetually aggrieved?

Why do leftists need this? It almost makes the members of the left come off as horrible, dysfunctional people, hostile to their flesh-and-blood kin, and incapable of normal, human interaction without guidance from their ideological peer group.

 

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  2. We are hosting a family dinner of 34. 4 generations will be here. We have been hosting Thanksgiving for at least 20 years. We have never, ever had a family squabble at Thanksgiving. Why? We are mostly conservatives (even the liberals are moderate) and the adults act like………. wait for it… Adults.

  3. Someone should really do a sketch where you try to have a nice holiday dinner, with no politics, just good family and friends and love, and some IDIOT keeps trying to politicize it by talking about global warming, gun control, every stupid liberal cause in the book, then when others tell them to can it and just enjoy the holiday, they claim that it is the others who are making it intolerable for them.

  6. Why don’t these Commie types just not go to Thanksgiving?

    That would seem to be the logical solution; but for groups like @TheDemocrats, that doesn’t further their cause. It’s like the representatives of the religious cults you just can’t escape.

  7. If your family objects, calmly dispute their position. If they insist on getting nasty, that’s when I suggest pulling off the gloves and going for the jugular or departing. Though I think most families who really object to your living arrangements would’ve already disinvited you from all further family functions, so a verbal brawl shouldn’t be necessary.

  11. As well as being miserable people, the left usually have some self esteem issues that makes them want to be the center of attention where they (in their own minds) are righteous and justified. Unfortunately while some of the causes over all are good ones – like saving the planet; their next step is always screw loose with end results either fubar or in the opposite direction. For example saving the planet by falsifying global warming data and then pushing this in an intolerant science settled manner while destroying jobs for no real reason.

  13. In his mid-1980s classic Modern Manners — which offers tips on being as snobbish and insufferably materialistic as possible — humorist P.J. O’Rourke endorsed bowling as a “socially acceptable indoor sport” and advised his readers:

    “Don’t feel self-conscious if your bowling skills are terrible. Being extremely bad at bowling only serves to remind your more sophisticated friends that you don’t come from the social strata in which people take bowling seriously.”

    And I think this is the primary motive behind the “How to Survive Thanksgiving with Right-Wing Relatives” articles: to advertise how far removed the writers are from the Oppressive Cookie-Cutter Suburbia they grew up in.

    (O’Rourke, of course, was making a joke at the expense of snobs, not at the expense of bowlers.)

  14. […] I think this is the primary motive behind the “How to Survive Thanksgiving with Right-Wing Relatives” articles: to advertise how far removed the writers are from the Oppressive Cookie-Cutter Suburbia they grew up in. […]

    It’s also the hallmark of attitudes held by those cemented in the coastal urban parts of America. Somehow, they know more, have been “around” more, and are just a little bit smarter than you are (even if you have a PhD from Hahvahrd or Yale). So if they are unable to impart their vast body of wisdom upon the unwashed, unlearned masses, then at least they shouldn’t be subjected to ‘redneck’ opinions or blatant misstatements of fact (eg, “CNN isn’t about news anymore.”).

    Meanwhile in Middle America, I don’t even know anyone among my Democrat circle of contacts who would think about interjecting politics or government dictates into a holiday dinner. It just. Wouldn’t. Come. Up.

  15. I was at a brunch of seven on Thanksgiving. I don’t know the politics of two of the people, but being Santa Fe, I thought I was probably the only conservative. There was not one mention of politics. It was about bridge (card game), football, where we are going for Christmas Day, the yummy food, and other generic topics.