“It’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. To say, I have a problem with the way that you voted…” Amanda Joy Calhoun, MD, MPH discussing taking care of yourself during this fraught time on #TheReidOut with Joy Reid. This is such bad advice. Shutting off your family bc they **voted for someone different than you** is no way to change hearts and minds. It’s not good for you, your family, or your country.
Reid was joined by Dr. Amanda Calhoun, a third-year Adult/Child Psychiatry Resident at Yale School of Medicine, who suggested icing out loved ones over the holidays to punish them for daring to have their own views and opinions.
Joy Reid: A challenge with the idea of how do you interact with people who you know voted for this? … do you recommend, just from a psychological standpoint, being around them? We got the holidays coming up.
Amanda Calhoun: So I love that you asked this question because there is a push, I think, just a societal norm that if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time. And I think the answer is absolutely not. So if you are going to a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood, and it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. To say, ‘I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood. And I’m not going to be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me.’
JD Vance: “If you discard a lifelong friendship because somebody votes for the other team, you’ve made a terrible mistake… Don’t cast aside family members and lifelong friendships. Politics is not worth it. If we follow that principle, we’ll heal the divide in this country.”
Jennings: Cherish friendships & don’t say anything stupid over an election; turn the page Dems in WH 60%
Scott Jennings “Cherish your family. Cherish your friendships. And don’t do or say anything stupid over an election this week that would put any of what really matters in jeopardy.”
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Joy Reid & MD/MPH Suggests Democrats Avoid Trump Supporting Relatives During the Holidays, JD Vance & Jennings differ