Libs prepare for Thanksgiving

Don Surber  "The holiday season is upon us. Thanksgiving is only 10 days away. You know what that means. Buying turkeys and trimmings. Cleaning up the house. Getting out the folding chairs.

"Liberals are preparing by reading this year's rendition of "How to talk politics at your family holiday meal this year.' "

. . . The next year, Gawker ramped it up with "How to Talk to Your Conservative Relatives." It offered this advice:

First of all, this is not a list of "counter-arguments," or methods by which you can convince a conservative relative that their beliefs are wrong. . . .

 . . . "In 2011, the insufferable liberal was pumped for Thanksgiving.

From Scott Stenholm at HuffPost:

The most stereotypical, called-out liberals in America, for generations, have been the most creative, the most educated and the most well informed members of our society. Who wouldn’t want to be grouped in with them?! Yet the holidays are upon us, and for many of us this does not just mean heading home for some quality time with our kin and stuffing ourselves with turkey and pumpkin pie. It also means that for liberals who grew up with conservative families, or even just that lone uncle who thinks “Obama is ruining this country with his socialism” or that “the gays shouldn’t be getting married” or that “scientists are pulling a fast one with all this climate change mumbo jumbo,” that we are on a collision course with the inevitable: the Thanksgiving dinner political argument. . . . 

Slate cartoon

"For Thanksgiving, there was this from the Los Angeles Times:

Know how to deal with annoying peacekeepers. If you have an audience of more than two, someone will probably say, “Why don’t we just try to have a nice time on Thanksgiving?” That’s when you say, “For sure, in a minute, but these are serious times and I think it’s good for all of us, as Americans, to talk through what’s going on.” The “as Americans” line is especially difficult to argue with on Thanksgiving.

"Jesus said blessed are the peacemakers. The Times said #$%^ the peacemakers."
. . . 
"In 2014, the Union of Concerned Scientists gave us, "How to Talk About Climate Change at Thanksgiving: Recipes for Good Conversations.' "

"And Joel Silberman at the Los Angeles Times said it was a patriotic duty to talk politics at Thanksgiving:' " . . . 

But wait! There's more! So very much more! . . .