Help! My stepdaughter is being lured to the dark side!

Arenosa

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Tuesday February 17, 2009 · 6:32 PM PST

2009/02/17 · 18:32

Up until now, I’ve been lucky. I haven’t had to deal with a family member or close friend whose politics were much different from my own. I grew up as part of a progressive family. My first marriage was into a progressive family. My second husband’s family seems liberal, although I haven’t discussed politics with my brothers-in-law. I can‘t speak to the politics of all of my friends; in some cases it simply hasn’t been part of the discourse. One friend’s right-wing politics became clear just before the election when she sent out an email containing an anti-Obama poem, but other than gently letting her know that I don’t share her sentiments, I haven’t delved into politics with her. Much. (But that’s another, very small, story.) But now my cocoon of liberalism is breaking open, and I’m interested in knowing how people in more politically diverse families handle the differences of opinion.

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