For those who don't simply avoid talking politics with family over the holidays

[thatcrazycajun]

You've had it happen to you any number of times over a holiday weekend when you go home to see the family (especially if, like me, you're a liberal from a red-state, largely conservative family). That awkward moment when some uncle or brother or parent or cousin pipes up with a political opinion that sets your teeth on edge.

Well, now you have resources to deal. You can print out the American Civil Liberties Union's handy list of "Turkey Day Talking Points" and keep a copy handy to help you refute their positions (whether they're actually informed and thought out or just parroted from the latest talk-radio broadcast or newspaper op-ed).

Or you can point them to these TV ads put together by the Center for American Progress and hosted at MoveOn.org's website. They outline just exactly what a real liberal (or "progressive," if you prefer) actually believes, as opposed to the caricature of us usually presented by right-wing groups and Republican politicians and operatives for propaganda purposes.

Either way, you're guaranteed to have something to talk about besides whether the local football team is losing their Thanksgiving Day game.

Comments

[gingicat]

You'd really like this (in an appreciative and sadly nodding kind of way):
http://odanu.livejournal.com/320684.html