{"id":1959,"date":"2020-01-30T21:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2020-01-29T13:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:57:18","slug":"political-climate-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/30\/political-climate-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"The political climate #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Disagreements\"No one who lives in the U.S. can be unaware of our current toxic political climate. It\u2019s gotten to the point where people can be attacked for the hat they wear, or an argument can occur between strangers over a candidate\u2019s plan for health care. Know what it is? It\u2019s ridiculous<\/em>, is what it is. When did we stop being a country where people could disagree without fear of fistfights? When did people stop mattering less than being \u201cright?”<\/p>\n

I admit, I\u2019ve gotten to the age where I don\u2019t care as much what other folks think of me. But even I wouldn\u2019t go outside the house wearing a red ballcap\u2014even if it was just<\/em> a red ball cap and carried no message. Discuss politics? I wouldn\u2019t mention it to a stranger. In the past, politics might bring on a few sneers or a dismissal, or a spirited discussion. Today, a disagreement over our government can land you in the hospital.<\/p>\n

However\u2026when it comes to family, I share my thoughts.<\/p>\n

My parents were always a little more conservative than my grandparents. \"AmericanMom and Dad usually voted for the candidate who supported the military more. My grandmother was a die-hard Democrat, a union steward in the plant where she worked, and had strong opinions she would voice anywhere about who should be running things. Contrary to most of my contemporaries who grew up during the Vietnam War, I leaned more toward my parents\u2019 views than the revolutionaries\u2019. Now, my mom leans more toward her<\/em> mother\u2014less conservative and more progressive. Do we battle it out during phone calls? Yes. Do we still love each other? YES!<\/em> We’re family and we love each other despite any comments about the elections.<\/p>\n

I wish everyone were more that way. Share your opinions, go home as friends. As it is, I discuss politics with my family, but not with friends. I value my friendships much more than I value making a point over something I have little control over anyway.<\/p>\n

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\nBurning Bridges<\/a> by Anne Krist: old letters put the lie to Sara\u2019s life. Now, mending her past mistakes while crossing burning bridges will be the hardest thing she\u2019s ever done.<\/p>\n

One Woman Only<\/a>
\nOnly a Good Man Will Do<\/a>
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No one who lives in the U.S. can be unaware of our current toxic political climate. It\u2019s gotten to the point where people can be attacked for the hat they wear, or an argument can occur between strangers over a candidate\u2019s plan for health care. Know what it is? It\u2019s ridiculous, is what it is. … Continue reading “The political climate #MFRWauthor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1070,5,3,1],"tags":[1072,1073,50,287,456,1071],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-week-challenge","category-author-information","category-general","category-uncategorized","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-family","tag-family-dinner","tag-family-support","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-vB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}