Do you get the itch to politic with them?
I will on occassion, but I had one friend make a smug comment about our “cowboy mentality” and I went a 20 minute rant about football hooligans, WW II era Nazi sympathizers and appeasers, current day support for the Palestines and how that all added up to ugly, bigotted society that had best keep their opinions to themselves. They’re still priggesh they talk about the US, but they now do it in very small doses around me.