Anyone have to bite their tongue chatting with family over holidays?

Bit my tongue. It's feeling better. :)

people were much more receptive

...Christmas party/dinner for her work at a restaurant, a co-worker's husband whom I've never met made mention of something political, and as I inhaled to speak a reaction, my wife quickly intervened! "Don't get him started!", she hollered. Sadly, she feels as though the time I spend here on DP and researching and learning is wasted time; "there's nothing you can do about any of it...don't waste your time with all that Ron Paul crap!".
Other than that, I was able to make a co-worker start re-thinking the ways of the world. She is nearly done with her schooling as an accountant.

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I have an uncle and great uncle that aren't necessarily awake to the RP movement, but are VERY aware of some of the same things I am. Government propaganda, media control, social issues, etc. I all see eye-to-eye on with them. I am lucky to have these people to talk to, because everyone else is basically blank when it comes to these issues.

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I have two married daughters. One is urban, and one is rural. My urban daughter and her husband held their noses and voted for Obama, because they feared McCain would place anti-abortion Justices on the Supreme Court. This was after they voted for Ron Paul in the primary and even contributed to him. My rural daughter and her husband voted for McCain because they feared Obama would place anti-2nd amendment Justices on the Supreme Court, and they disliked Obama more than McCain.

There was not any Obama/McCain political discussion, but my rural son-in-law, and I did talk about the possibility of civil war coming out of the economic mess within the next decade or two. His business brings him into contact with farmers, and he tells me that there is already lots of discontent in the heartland, and that people he talks to are really scared of the economy.

One interesting thing he did tell me was that one customer he deals with has a son who is in the Secret Service in Washington and that this son tell his dad that there is great fear that attempts will be made on Obama from a suicide bomber. Supposedly there have already been more credible threats than for all other prior Presidents combined.

But lol they will hear it till they capitulate...
I will not bite my tongue
I will never surrender

/Mike

I try to keep it on the down low - my family is well aware of how passionate I get about politics. Mom and I talked a little bit about Warren Buffet, Obama, Dr. Paul and campaign funds.

My Grandfather (81) is in the know, big time, and - a Dr. Paul fan to boot. You name it, we can talk about it, Bretton Woods, income taxes, fiat money, the Fed, the financial crisis, FDR, bail-out buffoonery, education, the worthless media or the Constitution; the only draw back comes at the end, when he always says with a shrug, well whatcha gonna do...

My Boyfriend and I started to watch Rules of Engagement with my step-sister but her Father snipped at us to turn it off. Feathers ruffled and the word Nazi was uttered as my guy exited from the door.

Ah, Christmas with family.... =)

I had to put up with all the Obama's gonna save us all crap. Barf. But I didn't bite my tongue.My old friend that just got recalled to the army was with us, and hem was the only other one in the group of maybe 10 that didn't worship Obama. He brought up to me about how disturbing it is that all the people adore him, and suggested everyone will get pictures of him in their house like Tutu, Jong-ll and Hussein. Then one of them was talking about how Reagan was supposedly a great communicator, but all he was was talk,and I said, just like Obama, and my sister told me to shut up. What a communicator she is! Her and dumb Obama t-shirt every day of the holidays. Blecht!

we attended one dinner and gave two. the people we spent time with were family and friends ages 29 to 82 and pleasantly we were all on the same page when it came to talk concerning the government. at one dinner there were new friends who had originally come from chile and commented that they found it odd that the american people took such little interest in their government and stated that in their home town in chile everyone talked politics during and after dinner. it was just part of their way of life. my 82 year old aunt knows that we have gotten the shaft but has much more interest now that she has purchased a computer. gotta love someone who is in her 80s and decides to learn how to use the internet because she wants to know what is going on in the country and knows she isn't going to get the truth from the media. i was very pleased with the content of the conversation as it allowed me to know that people are paying attention and they are pissed.

My grandparents were pretty hardcore rebulican mccainwashed people who just happen to be of jewish heritage. I have tried mentioning that 9/11 was an inside job and his response was, "So 9/11 didn't happen?" so I figure I should just let it go. It did seem that he finally thinks that both McCain and Obama were bad, though.

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http://freedomainreadio.com/

Lot's of good stuff about applying the philosophy of liberty to family relationships.

I talked politics with my country club brother-in-law. I discovered something scary--it's too easy to talk politics with Republicans now. All you have to do is brush aside the War on Terror crapola, and talk about how awful it will be to live under Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. (Which it will be.)

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Ugh... yes! My husbands grandmother says casually that the Obama Citizenship case actually made it to the Supreme Court not 3 minutes into everyone sitting down to eat.

A few people got up real quick and took their plates into the living room to finish or excused themselves to smoke a cig. I stayed around biting my tounge and sort of glad that I wasn't the attackee on something political for once.

My relatives found out that we're Ron Paul supporters when they drove up and saw the sign in our yard and the bumper stickers on our cars last year! My cousin's son told me that he's one, also! This year, I gave him The Revolution: A Manifesto. I couldn't part with my autographed copy, so I gave him the copy that I'd read and written comments in!! My uncle is a big Ron Paul fan, but he said that he's too old to run in 2012. I didn't say anything, but I thought to myself that he shouldn't compare himself to Ron Paul; Ron's in a lot better shape than him! My uncle's had a stroke, he's overweight, and he's two years older than him. Here's a shocker - I was explaining how the Ron Paul supporters are trying to bring the GOP back to its conservative roots and outnumber the neocons, and my other cousin's husband, who works for the city's newspaper, said he doesn't know what a neocon is (!!!)

my head off when I started up with my talks. They will soon see.

yes, yes, and yes.

and my tongue still hurts!

thanks for reminding me of all my sleeping family members!