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Family Holiday party last night - 5? Conservatives - 30+ liberals?
My husband’s (large) family is wonderful. Some of the nicest people you will ever meet. But they are mostly liberal, thanks to most of the uncle/aunt generation working in the unions of the Miami -area aircraft industry years ago. (There once was a giant rift in the family due to one uncle being in Eastern Airlines management while 2 were in the union.)
No politics were talked at all. We were just genuinely glad to be together again for this tradition for the first time since before Covid. We have already lost 3/7 of the aunts/uncles and others are fading 😢 My husband was so lucky to have an idyllic childhood growing up with this close-knit family alongside 15 cousins.
My suspicion is that the shots have aged many of them more rapidly. But they are in their 70s and 80s and mostly doing well. Husband’s mother has advancing dementia as does one uncle. But who knows if it is from diet or the shots? We do know with husband’s mother that it appeared after the second shot.
My most interesting conversation was with one of the youngest cousins from the grandchild generation (our kids’ generation.) She has a very liberal mother that I infrequently engage with on FB and she went to school in OR, but is still in school due to missing 2 semesters due to illness. I was slow on the uptake but she had obviously shaved her head recently.
We started off talking about what she was doing. I hadn’t seen her since she was a baby since she lives in AK. Somehow we got onto the topic of holistic medicine, likely because she has been sick most of her life. She is now seeing a naturopath since Western medicine “has failed her”. This is huge as her mother is a nurse!
I told her how much I’ve learned about the importance of food and nutrition and urged her to keep going with the holistic medicine route. She also dropped that she is on SSRIs and is working to wean off them. I did drop RFK Jr’s name once and she immediately stiffened but didn’t say anything. I asked her if she had heard what he was saying about the food dyes and cleaning up our food supply (she hadn’t.) I said ignore his supposed anti-vaccine stance that you’ve probably heard about for now but pay attention to what he is saying about cleaning up our food supply. He is onto something. (I figured the vaccine knowledge will follow as she goes on her holistic health journey… plus, I can’t fight her mother’s influence at this point.)
I was really encouraged as I look back on our conversation. Here were two people so opposite in views politically, absolute strangers, but able to talk easily and connect over our health. To be fair, she had no idea I was conservative until much later in the evening as part of another quick conversation.
One person at a time. So far in my limited contact with new people (I live a life where I don’t bump up against new people often), I’ve gotten a black male millenial (many conversations with him as my massage therapist) to vote for Trump and I’ve had several conversations about food/health with other strangers…
Nice to hear, I have similar situations with my beloved libtards.
One time it came down to who still trusts the MSM.....they mostly still do, but are starting to see the light (the 'gaslight' haha!)