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My mother and I can't even have a civil discussion on any political topic anymore. My sister and I are no longer speaking. The tension the immense polarization from the extremely-partisan has caused is in the process of splitting apart families, including my own extended family. I'm now avoiding family get-togethers because no one can discuss politics anymore. We all 'explode' politics now. A simple conversation turns to yelling in minutes. The polite discourse has disappeared and in its place something that combines The Jerry Springer Show with the Rush Limbaugh show, and this is in a room full of educated, middle-class people.
It breaks my heart what the partisans have done not just to my family, but to Christmas itself. I no longer have any Christmas spirit whatsoever after hearing day after day how there is this fake 'war on Christmas'. I've lost all taste for the holiday and being with family who want to do nothing but argue with me on political topics. When the partisans have long gone I'm afraid these old wounds will remain. I just hope some day we can all talk to each other again. The partisans are destroying conversation in this country.
