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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If politics are such a center piece of your life  It will be impossible to be happy regardless of where you live.[/quote]

Hands down the most on-target comment I’ve read in ages.[/quote]

Actually it’s hand down the best indicator that one is not a minority, probably straight and more likely than not a man.

Most people who don’t care about politics are those who aren’t oppressed by political policies.  [/quote]

Caring about politics should not mean allowing it to consume your life and relationships. [/quote]

I imagine it’s hard when politics manifests as racism, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia. We aren’t talking about differences of opinion in tax policy anymore.

It’s actually unfathomable to me that you believe someone in a mixed race family, or who has children who are LGBTQ+ should tolerate being around people who deride their existence simply because they share blood. [/quote]

What about mixed race families that are conservative? What do they do, disassociate with themselves? This is like the Dave Chappelle skit about Clayton Bigsby - the black white supremacist, amiright?[/quote]

Well are we taking about conservatives who are openly racist, etc? Because I am not going to go as far as to say that covers all conservatives. For example, I have cut off racist maga family members, but my best friends are still conservative republicans.

But no, people who do not recognize politics that manifest in racist, etc tropes probably also fail to recognize the racism, etc perpetuated against them and would not cut off those perpetuating it. [/quote]

Well, the OP and pretty much every poster in this thread is equating MAGA with conservative republican across the board, and then leaping to all thse conclusions regarding racism and whatever other ism you want to conjure up:

"BUT I cannot imagine living and raising them in a MAGA heartland [b][u]where everyone is Republican and loud about it[/u][/b]. Including my family."[/quote]

Living somewhere and cutting off family are different things. OP covered both topics in their OP.

But I am an earlier poster who described cutting off family because my son’s girlfriend (soon to be engaged) is Black. I have not cut off every conservative in my life and I do not see most posters on here saying they have either. I think even those who have actually cut off family are more nuanced than you are realizing. [/quote]

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