Would you be okay if your child married a neo-Nazi who believed strongly in the white nation&#x27;s victory in the coming race-war?<p>Because that&#x27;s politics.  I wouldn&#x27;t let someone like that <i>near my children at Christmas</i> because of potential memetic contagion, much less enjoy having a conversation with them.<p>Lesser degrees of disagreement are lesser degrees of disagreement, but political positions are personal beliefs about the philosophy of how we cooperate with each other and what we should be doing, not simply different teams to root for at the big game every four years.