This Thanksgiving, liberals and conservatives want you to know how to use their talking points on your relatives on the other side of the political divide.
Assuming that everyone talks politics over their Thanksgiving meal, this meme has become especially popular on the left as a way for young people to combat their older, presumably more conservative relatives. The Democratic National Committee, for example, sent out a “handy guide” for talking to your Republican uncle.
“It’s that time of year — full of food and fun and celebrating with family and friends. But we here at the DNC know that occasionally all that togetherness can lead to some… let’s call them ‘lively’ conversations about politics with that one Republican uncle (or aunt, or brother — you know who I’m talking about),” said the DNC email. “And as Democrats, it’s up to each of us to go into those situations ready with the truth.”
“So I’m officially deputizing you to serve as a Deputy Democratic Spokesperson this holiday season — and giving you special access to all the facts you could ever want,” said the email before linking to website exhibiting these “facts.” The DNC misspelled “uncle” as “unclw” in the initial sending of the email.
The liberal explainer website Vox also featured a list of talking points for family political arguments over the holidays.
The Wall Street Journal fired back with a blog post giving ammunition to the beleaguered Republican uncles. saying it may be “tiring” to “hear tedious nephews and nieces interrupting,” so here were “some key facts those aunts and uncles can use to put millennials in their place.”
Those facts included the relative joblessness of millennials, their tendency to live with their parents and polls showing that in the U.S. the younger age group is less financially literate than older cohorts.
Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea to talk politics at Thanksgiving at all, with columnist Michelle Malkin among those who advise eschewing the practice.
