As we get together with family members we haven't seen in a while for Thanksgiving dinner this week, experts are cautioning folks to avoid conversations about politics and religion.
On the Big K Morning Show, political analyst Lenny McAllister says it would be very easy to "step in it" when bringing something up that you might think is benign.
“If you say something like, ‘can you believe that they shut down the government for as long as they did, those poor people that didn’t get a paycheck’, and you got somebody from an offshoot saying ‘they needed to shut down the government, they spent too much money, those crazy Democrats’ and then, off you go,” said McAllister.
One 2025 survey found that 59 percent of Americans are worried about political disagreements causing tension at family gatherings, and 49 percent want to ban political conversations entirely.