Good morning, Shirleevee and BobKat,
I know what you mean and so I had to come up with a plan. For the emails, it's easy. The pattern can be spotted right away and so you can just hit delete without even opening it. I still very much like these people, but enough is enough. (They never know I deleted the stuff though. I am a moderate after all. I just never respond on that topic.)
But, when your friends and relatives are with you in person, sometimes you have to set ground rules. My sister-in-law makes a noise like a loud buzzer when topics of conversation at family gatherings start to go astray. She is a pastor so everybody minds her.
When people are at my house and they want to invoke Rush or Beck or whoever, I just say, "I cannot talk about that anymore." And then I tickle them and tickle them and tickle them until they cannot stop laughing.
I hope you find these suggestions helpful.
Boomer
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