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Dear Americans, how do you go back to normal after such an election campaign? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The atmosphere is so heated, and the statements are getting more and more extreme. Let's just assume Harris wins the election. After a campaign like this, how could you ever have a normal relationship with your pro-Trump neighbor/father-in-law/Uncle/Barber or what ever again?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

there is only forward. no reverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Most my friends are republicans so we shit talk a lot back and forth. After the election we will just shit talk about something else. Yes we are over 40 and still act like teenagers.

My main concern right now is that my two oldest kids are asking me why I’m voting for Harris lol.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Help them to understand what happened, why it happened, and what will happen. After 2016, I had to explain to my lib family members that no, black people didn't cause Hillary to lose, the dems gave us trump by failing to even promise to improve people's material conditions, and to my conservative acquaintances "no, trump is not draining the swamp, he is a billionaire, he IS the swamp."

In 2020, it was "no, Biden isn't going to stop covid, empty the migrant camps, or abolish the police, he's going to continue 95% of Trump's policies, we've seen this all before under Clinton and Obama."

[–] MagicShel 0 points 3 weeks ago

We simply don't talk politics. My wife is the peacemaker. When someone brings up something political she shuts that shit down quickly.

It's when people don't know what to talk about other than politics that I think they are truly lost. Watch some fucking football and hate on each others' team. I think some people need that sort of idle animosity.

Anyway, there are more to people than politics.

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