Nobody’s going to argue when I say that our country is in a complicated place these days. You can feel it in the news, around the dinner table, even in the grocery store line. And I don’t think anyone would argue with this either: families are complicated, too. Now, mix those two things together — a complicated country and a complicated family — and it gets even trickier. Especially when the folks around the table see the country through different lenses. That’s when things get really complicated.

Are our modern day families so torn up by political differences that gathering around the kitchen island without an argument around the daily news is more and more uncommon? Is our country now so divided and passionate that we are headed towards another civil war?

I hope not on both counts.

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