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How to avoid a contentious family holiday after the big election.<\/p>\n

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Caroline and James Koster have spent years finding ways to connect across the political aisle. For decades, the couple from Brooklyn, N.Y., would line up at their local polling station with their two sons in tow and cancel out one another\u2019s vote \u2014 she tends to be more moderate, while he is more conservative.<\/p>\n

Their extended family is politically mixed, too. Caroline, 58, gathers with many right-leaning relatives in Kentucky for a family reunion every year. And this month, the couple will celebrate Thanksgiving in Ohio with several of James\u2019s brothers, who do not see eye to eye politically. \u201cWe run the gamut from super liberal to centrist to archconservative,\u201d James, 59, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can imagine, for some people, those kinds of differences of opinion drive them apart,\u201d he added. \u201cBut we don\u2019t let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Thanksgiving a week away, families across a deeply divided nation are putting the finishing touches on their menus and are once again making plans to gather with loved ones who may be at odds over the results of the 2024 presidential election. As the country has grown increasingly polarized, how do families find their way back together for the holidays?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere are longstanding grievances on both sides,\u201d said Kenneth Barish, a clinical professor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College and author of the forthcoming book, \u201cBridging Our Political Divide: How Liberals and Conservatives Can Understand Each Other and Find Common Ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo then the question is: What can we do?\u201d he continued. \u201cHow can we have a better conversation? A less angry conversation? A conversation that actually goes somewhere?\u201d<\/p>\n

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How to avoid a contentious family holiday after the big election.Caroline and James Koster have spent years finding ways to connect across the political aisle. For decades, the couple from Brooklyn, N.Y., would line up at their local polling station with their two sons in tow and cancel out one another\u2019s vote \u2014 she tends to be more moderate, while he is more conservative.Their extended family is politically mixed, too. Caroline, 58, gathers with many right-leaning relatives in Kentucky for a family reunion every year. And this month, the couple will celebrate Thanksgiving in Ohio with several of James\u2019s brothers, who do not see eye to eye politically. \u201cWe run the gamut from super liberal to centrist to archconservative,\u201d James, 59, said.\u201cYou can imagine, for some people, those kinds of differences of opinion drive them apart,\u201d he added. \u201cBut we don\u2019t let that happen.\u201dWith Thanksgiving a week away, families across a deeply divided nation are putting the finishing touches on their menus and are once again making plans to gather with loved ones who may be at odds over the results of the 2024 presidential election. As the country has grown increasingly polarized, how do families find their way back together for the holidays?\u201cThere are longstanding grievances on both sides,\u201d said Kenneth Barish, a clinical professor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College and author of the forthcoming book, \u201cBridging Our Political Divide: How Liberals and Conservatives Can Understand Each Other and Find Common Ground.\u201d\u201cSo then the question is: What can we do?\u201d he continued. \u201cHow can we have a better conversation? A less angry conversation? A conversation that actually goes somewhere?\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16898,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16899,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions\/16899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}