Last year, Thanksgiving was a very quiet affair in many liberal homes as President Donald Trump had just won a shock victory in the election weeks earlier.
This year expects to be a whole lot noisier. Across the country, angry leftists are absolutely losing it over just about anything and everything the president does.
If you have some in your own family… if you’re attending a Thanksgiving celebration with one… if you’re heading into a roomful of liberals… you just KNOW they’re waiting for a moment to jump down your throat.
Don’t fight. Don’t get loud. Don’t even argue.
There’s a much better way to have a Thanksgiving EVERYONE can enjoy – even those liberals (they’re family, after all) – you just need to disarm them by focusing on a few key issues that all of us can agree on.
1) The Economy. This is the big one. Last year, the leftist mainstream media warned of plunging stocks, rising unemployment and a growth rate in the toilet.
Instead, the opposite has happened. In the last quarter alone, the economy grew by 3 percent despite a series of major hurricanes that were expected to slow and even stop growth.
Let your liberal relatives know we’re all on the same side when it comes to the economy. We ALL want more jobs and more money, and right now we’re getting it – and even if they don’t like Trump, they’re benefiting too.
2) Taxes. This has been in the headlines in recent days, and there’s a lot of misinformation out there.
The bottom line is we ALL want to pay less. You want to pay less… and your liberal relatives want to pay less, right?
At its heart, that’s what this plan promises: We all pay less. The official nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation said last week the biggest winners under the Senate tax plan are working and middle-class consumers.
Those who make between $20,000 and $30,000 will see their bills drop by 10 percent… those who make between $50,000 and $70,000 will pay 7.1 percent less… and millionaires will get the smallest benefit of all at 5.3 percent.
Win-win-win, and while we might have some disagreements on some of the specifics in the tax plan, let’s at least agree that the basics are a big a step in the right direction.
3) The big picture. We all have presidents we like and presidents we don’t. Every four years, half of the nation is left ticked off. If it’s too much for some to handle this time around, make an agreement to not talk politics for the rest of the meal so everyone stays friendly.
Remind your loved ones that despite the constant gloom-and-doom predictions from the media, we’re almost a year through the Trump presidency and the sun is still rising… the Earth is still spinning… and the new “Star Wars” movie is still coming out next month.
If all else fails, just smile, pop the cork on the bubbly, fill everyone’s glass and make a toast to the family.
You can never lose with that move.