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In 2022, there aren’t a great many things which unite an American public increasingly divided over every imaginable issue, event and topic in the world. Even the most innocuous subjects have become verboten, taboo and even unmentionable in polite circles.
Most Americans don’t feel comfortable expressing their political views in public anymore; not at work, not online, not even at family dinner. Family dinners, of course, have become one of those new formerly-tranquil political minefields.
“How to Deal With Your Politically Inconvenient Neighbor,” and, “How to Successfully Argue Your Point in Time for Pie,” and, “Confronting the Deplorable At Dinner” articles have become more popular than recipes during the holidays.
Americans are divided- more and more sharply it seems- over everything from how to properly behave at family dinner (“It’s inappropriate to discuss politics at family dinner,” versus, “It’s inappropriate not to discuss politics at family dinner.”) to television commercials to the NFL to hamburgers.
COVID19 has, as it often does, made everything so much worse. Add to that the rising tensions between Russia and the Ukraine, and our political environment has seldom been so toxic, if ever.