How do you deal with disagreements?

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Sometimes I feel alone in political terms, how do you deal with it?

Also, how do you overcome negative feelings when it comes to political disagreements? Especially when such disagreements are painful?
 
My mother said to never argue about religion or politics. So I don’t. I argue with myself a lot, but I never win…sigh.
 
The way Socrates did. Just keep asking questions. Usually, in the end, your position, even if never overtly stated, is given respect.
 
As long as you are on the side of Truth then there should be nothing to worry about. No matter how charitable one is in proclaiming the Truth of Jesus Christ and His Church they will still be called intolerant, hater, homophobic and any other name that seeks to bury the Truth in relativism. That is a tactic of the liberal left and it is designed to shut you up.
 
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Also, how do you overcome negative feelings when it comes to political disagreements? Especially when such disagreements are painful?
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Unless the “political disagreement” is creating stress between me and a loved one, it is small potatoes. The fact that some stranger disagrees with me over Donald Trump doesn’t matter one iota to my life.

If it is creating stress between me and a loved one, I would try to talk to them about it and at least understand each other even if we don’t agree. Better yet, just don’t get that wound up over it because it’s still small potatoes. If I truly love someone, and they love me, we’re not going to stop loving each other over Donald Trump.

The degree to which a lot of people get wound up over politics is baffling to me, unless they themselves have lost a very significant direct benefit or their loved one has suffered or died and they somehow blame the government. In those cases, I understand getting upset over politics, but sooner or later you have to stop blaming and having “feelings” and take some direct action to change the situation, or else accept that you cannot change it and move forward with your life. Too often, politics just becomes a convenient scapegoat for people to blame for all the negative feelings they feel anyway in their own lives. Instead of actually taking steps to address their own problems, they sit and blame politics forever.
 
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I discuss/debate such things to the point of clarity. Why do they hold their position? Do they know why I hold mine? But maybe that works for me because understanding why people hold certain views and beliefs contrary to my own is an insanely fascinating beyond description.

Also, most are not mean sprited in their opposition of your POV.
 
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