Family Redux: I had a wonderful kind of angry bitter political argument with my son.
Once when we were first married, my father and my stepmother - who had been married to my father for less than six years - came to visit us in California.
My father and I hadn't seen each other for about a year or so at the time, and we loved each other very much.
We had this big deal screaming argument with each other over the war in Vietnam - which had been over for more than a decade at the time - and my stepmother told my father that she thought they were going to get thrown out of our apartment and would have to go to a hotel.
My father just laughed and remarked about how proud he was of how I kept pulling books off my bookshelves to bolster my hotheaded argument.
The next morning we drove down to San Diego harbor so he could reminiscence about his last visit to San Diego, where he spent a day loading ammunition on his aircraft carrier during World War II.
It was a wonderful visit. I very much miss the ability to have heated political arguments with my father, who died in 1993.
The other night I had the chance to have a heated argument with my son over Michael Bloomberg. It was like the old days.
My wife - who'd been there for that San Diego argument - remarked on how heated the argument was.
"It's a family tradition," I said.
My son, who loves stories about his grandfather - who he never met - and I just laughed.
Life is beautiful, and then you die.
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Go at it all the time. He votes Democrat, does not like Trump but blames NAFTA for the demise of jobs in this Country. Upset his wife the first time she heard it. I apologized and explained we are not mad. She ignores us now.
My Grandson is now getting in the act with his Dad. Thinks more like me, climate change,etc!
just two days ago i got into a heated argument with my son regarding politics. Sadly he is a trump supporter. The argument was on a family text group. His sisters (4) dread these situations and try to stop them. Usually start with one of us posting something political and the other responding and grows from there. Fridays argument grew and grew. Some of the family had plans to go to his house for pizza and watching a show on tv. I was in this group. Finally after much back and forth i said. I am getting ready to come to your house now, be nice to me.
My oldest daughter jumped in at this point saying "Thank God".
Went to his house had pizza and watched the show. No problems, of course politics was never brought up.
We have had opposite views on politics ever since 9/11. Recently we have reached an unspoken agreement to not talk politics. Works fine but this text thing was never addressed. I have decided to not get involved with him on the family texts, politically that is.
