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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]OP, you are accusing your parents of intolerance when it is pretty clear you are capable of intolerance yourself. [/b]

I have plenty of political divides in my family. We still get along as we know there's more to life than politics. Is it annoying? Sure. But I always remind myself my beliefs are as annoying and frustrating to others as their beliefs are annoying and frustrating to me.

Walking away from them and cutting off contact is something that, according to the studies I've seen, is done far more by left leaning people than right leaning people (note how it's not your parents threatening to walk away from you). It bothers me this seems to be the case. My advice is don't. Put aside your political feelings, treat them as they seem to treat you, which is a family member with wonky views and just focus on other things. [/quote]

This is such a tired canard.  Intolerance of racism is not a personal failing or sign of hypocrisy.  It's a sign of having actual values.[/quote]

OP here. What am I supposed to say, "I see your point that you want your kids and grandkids to suffer financially to support the great grift/graft master. I respect your desire to watch me and my husband lose our house for Trump. And maybe you're correct, after all, and I should be willing to starve for him (I guess they are, too?)." Is that what I should say?

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You’re so overdramatic. [b]You can find another job if you were to get fired. [/b]

You can also choose to either love your parents or don’t. Please stop perpetuating the lazy government employee stereotype. [/quote]

Spoken like someone who is completely clueless about the job market currently.[/quote]

If a fired government employee doesn’t have the skills or capability to get hired by another company, Id rather not pay them to use those same non-skills for government wages. What a waste of taxes and budget allocation. [/quote]

Prepare for an onslaught of verbal abuse from the fed workers here - your opinion (very valid) will never win on this site.

Seriously - are these fed workers so great that we can’t lose them and should be giving them pay raises to ensure they don’t quit? Or are they impossible to hire in the private sector because they suck and the only reason they haven’t been laid off because they’re feds? 
Schrödingers Federal Employees

Back to OP - you are right to hold firm on your boundaries with your parents. You’d expect people their age to be mature enough not to start petty fights with their family over the holidays but alas some people aren’t capable of nice things. [/quote]

The problem is that some federal jobs are so specific to the work done for the government that there's not anything equivalent outside of government. And once you're at a certain, it's nearly impossible to train up for a different field and find someone to hire you, even if you're intelligent and hard-working.

I am not a fed myself, but I have many friends who were let go, and some of them are in that group. [/quote]

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