It’s time to make your echo chamber great again.In 2024, that means curating your world to exclude those who voted for the 45th and, now, 47th president, Donald J.Trump.Especially if those voters are close friends or family members — slap the ban on them.
Just say no to sharing a plate of Thanksgiving yams with your Trump-supporting aunt, even if she voted for Obama twice and Hillary in 2016.It’s the doctor’s orders!Last Friday, MSNBC’s resident Chicken Little, Joy “Democracy is Falling” Reid, welcomed to her show Yale psychiatrist Dr.Amanda Calhoun — who dished out a prescription for festering bitterness and loneliness.“There is a societal norm that, if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time, and I think the answer is absolutely not,” Calhoun told Reid when talking about how to interact with Trump voters.“So if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends, who you know have voted in ways that are against you, against your livelihood, it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why.”Isn’t that what Festivus is for? To get together and air your grievances — the operative word being “together.”Not for “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin, who said on Tuesday she is in favor of ideological segregation for the holidays, calling it a “moral issue.”She said pulling the lever for Trump is way worse than voting for George W.
Bush because the former is a more “flawed” human being.In other words, the new guy we call Hitler is way worse than the old guy we used to call Hitler.“And so I think when people feel that someone voted against not only their families, but against them, and against people that they loved … I think it’s OK to take a beat.”Baked into this argument is an inherent selfishness.
Why didn’t you think about ME and my delusions of oppression when you voted? Not your own interests.It’s a sentiment that has been crop-...