I have noticed the majority opinion on FR is that family is more important than spouting your opinion, and politics tends to be verboten at a mixed Thanksgiving table.
On the other hand, if you go to DU, it’s filled with fire breathers swearing this year they are going to tear the heads off their conservative parents/siblings/friends.
I guess it’s what you value. On FR, family and friends, on lib sites, personal expression. Which is funny considering conservatism most highly values individual rights and socialism values collective society.
All that said, my lib sister is very restrained over politics when we meet. Although she couldn’t resist saying “Yuk!” when she heard me listening to Rush the other day.
“majority opinion on FR is that family is more important than spouting your opinion,”
We (most Freepers) get our moral/political compass from God’s rules.
When others reject the rules we like to follow, we can dismiss it as “rejecting God and His rules,” rather than rejecting us.
As the author said, Libs take it personally because their rules are “THEIR” rules. If you reject their worldview, you are rejecting “them”.
Excellent article from somebody who has lived it.