OP - you have been given a huge advantage. Listen and learn. You get to learn who agrees with you. Then, you choose your friends. THEN, you can be in a position to guide the conversation away to other things.

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Anonymous wrote:O m g many of you are just as bad.

My neighbors are anti mask and anti vaccine. You do the math.

That’s fine. But why can’t people just shut up about it at the team BBQ???!!!

- op

WTF is wrong with you that you’re letting your kids go to this antivaxer BBQ???

Sounds pretty low risk to me but you do you.
OP, it's annoying when anyone perseverates on a topic.
In Atypical, Sam's girlfriend gave him a card and each time he talked about Antarctica, he had to give up a card. When they were gone, that was it- he couldn't mention in again. That's unlikely to work with the new friends, i suppose. Maybe you could suggest shots every time politics are brought up?

OP, I am going to ignore all the nonsense about politics in this thread, and just focus on the issue at hand.

It's hard moving to a new place, and its hard making friends. Not all relationships turn into friendships, and it seems like that may be the case with the people you are meeting now.

That sucks, because you are in a place in life where you really want to make new friends, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

Hang in there - you will meet people that become your friends. Be patient and you will find your people.

This isn’t useful to you, OP, since you aren’t moving but we recently moved to an area that has a fairly equal amount of R and D voters. Because of this, I think, no one talks politics and it’s so easy to get along with neighbors. We recently moved from a very blue area and the political discussion was constant. I am liberal, as are my close friends, but it’s great not having to listen political talk from my neighbors, kids’ friends parents, at neighborhood bbqs etc.

I hear you, OP.

Friends and neighbors just won’t leave the topic alone.

We are moderates who were not raised here. We’ve met nice parents through sports, school, etc.

But almost all of them openly talk politics ALL THE DAMN TIME.

And they are really nosy too; they keep asking probing questions; trying to find out our views when we don’t want to talk politics. It is so weird around here! It makes us really miss home in the rest of the USA.

Anonymous wrote:O m g many of you are just as bad.

My neighbors are anti mask and anti vaccine. You do the math.

That’s fine. But why can’t people just shut up about it at the team BBQ???!!!

- op

WTF is wrong with you that you’re letting your kids go to this antivaxer BBQ???