Politics is the new religion.
Has to be 25 years ago, at Passover dinner my father quotes Clinton’s, “it’s the economy, stupid.” A cousin of my wife goes bat crap crazy on my father. My dad was illustrating the folly of Clinton and she just lost it. Needless to say, they didn’t speak at the next 10 Passover’s.
A few years later, at the Seder, my in-laws are talking about how George Bush is a monkey and how he hates blacks, women and gays. They are talking up Kerry as the savior and if Bush didn’t cheat Gore would be running for re-election.
And that’s when I nuked Passover. “If Hitler had a D next to his name you would vote for him.” That wound took 8 years to heal.