Find the middle ground you agree on, then focus/build on that. Paint yourself as “on their side,” not their enemy.

But most people don’t care to change their mind. They care to see if you agree and expect you to change yours to match. So battling for the purpose of battling only leaves everyone exhausted.

Smile and nod, baby! Just smile and nod and they'll shut up soon!

Have you ever watched All in the Family?

Political disagreements with my dad would have been along the lines of: who was the best revolutionary, Trotsky or Ho Chi Minh?

Ha ha.

I try to not talk to my mother about politics, because any thime she's proven wrong and not coming to that conclusion on her own, she gets very emotional.

On the other hand, I like to make sarcastic remarks to her boyfriend on social media, where I exaggerate his political views to their logical conclusion. He's very convinced, that the anti-LGBTQ movement will stop at removing gays from public life and using the "magical" cure on trans people, and not at publicly lynching people for not having kids by 30, due to how hegemonic heterosexuality works.