I don't hide my anarchism from my family.
When those who are on the "Right" push some statist nonsense, and they do, I can push back. It doesn't cause friction even though we disagree.
Those in my family who are on the "Left" are not so easy to talk to. When they express some statist nonsense, I've learned to just let it go. They can bring it up, but don't push back against it. You've got to walk on eggshells around every topic. (And they find a way to blame Trump for every problem, real or imagined.) It feels like they can't handle disagreement. It hasn't gone well in the past, and if nothing else, I learn from experience.
Family harmony is more important to me than correcting people when they are wrong- especially if it's going to be a big problem.
This is probably why I generally have a better opinion of the "Right" than of the "Left", and believe the "Right" is more open-minded, even though they are both whackadoodles on many topics.
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“Family harmony is more important to me than correcting people when they are wrong”
ReplyDeleteI agree. Although I may have preferred civility to ‘harmony’ but in any event, the avoidance of open discord. My experience in life is that most are unlikely to acknowledge errors when these are pointed out to them by others but only to see them when they learn by their own personal awareness. Regrettably, some people remain as perpetually oblivious to this process of self-correction as they are to external teaching.