Every American should be talking about politics and religion on Thanksgiving

These days, it’s become a sad cliché to avoid talking about politics at Thanksgiving. lest screams about Bidenmix, wokeness, or Trump echo through the well-decorated dining room and Grandma serves pumpkin pie in tears.

It’s worth the risk of throwing stuffing and turkey legs on the table because Uncle Joe says climate change is a hoax or Cousin Tom’s new wife says Thanksgiving itself is a celebration of colonialism. We are told that there is no.

So let’s shut everything up and talk about Taylor Swift or football or, these days, both.

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This is terrible advice not only for individual Turkey Day gatherings, but for the country as a whole. Because if there’s any place where we can bridge the deep gaps in our political organization, it’s surely at the Thanksgiving table with our families. and friends.

Frankly, in the age of social media, we could all use the habit of having “real life” conversations with people we love and care about but with whom we disagree, rather than being targets of anonymous political outrage. .

Earlier this month, on Election Day, I watched a viral video of Virginia Democratic voters thoroughly criticizing volunteers from the opposing party and shouting out every stereotype you can think of about the right.

There were some parts of the video that I didn’t understand, so I watched it many times until I understood it.

This person was acting out in the plastic of reality the very same kind of unrestrained social media abuse that we see in our virtual lives, but once we saw it… , I couldn’t miss it.

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For more than a decade, it has often been noted that people say things online that they would never say in real life, but what if it’s a lie?

What if our virtual personalities quickly creep into our real-life relationships?

So there’s a lot of healthy political discourse that takes on the topics of the day on Thanksgiving Day. For many, it is a rare opportunity to be heard and heard in an environment of trust and love.

This summer I attended my 30th high school reunion, and one of my progressive classmates and I were backed into a corner and had a long conversation.

We talked about transformer issues and kids, about the highest voltage third rail that exists in today’s society.

It was respectful and thoughtful, and it made me consider my ideas more closely.

This was possible because we knew each other as children and young people and knew that each other’s motivation was to protect children. In other words, we both shared the same end goal, but had different ways of achieving it.

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There are people on the left who say the right is Neanderthal white supremacists. Some people on the right say that all people on the left have an awakened mind virus and that they are evil.

These are useless positions to hold. Unless, of course, the people promoting it have economic or political interests in a deeply divided America. Thankfully, the majority of Americans don’t.

The key to a conscious political conversation, which, by the way, the young people in attendance will be keen to observe, is that the goal is not to win.

Unless your family is really eccentric, you don’t vote with a straw after your coffee.

No, the goal is to look at where we stand as a family, as a community, as a nation, and there is no better time than Thanksgiving.

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After all, the 52 Pilgrims and their Native American counterparts were beginning to create something new in the world, what we today call Americans.

It is not the story of the creation of the United States of America, but of the creation of the American people as a people.

There they feasted, thanking God, though they knew little of the majestic vastness of the rugged America that we had inherited from them and that was now under our care.

As we commemorate the first Thanksgiving, it is appropriate for us to discuss how well we are handling this sacred covenant that they have given us over the centuries. Isn’t that a good thing?

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And you know what? If you listen to opposing viewpoints with an open mind and heart, you just might be surprised. We may be doing much better than you think.

Don’t you think that would make for a fun Thanksgiving?

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