How do you handle disagreeing w/ adult children re: politics

Well, if you are my MIL, you keep spouting crazy conspiracies even though your adult children have asked not to discuss politics. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I grew up in a home where politics and religion was completely off limits to discuss.  I will sometimes ask my adultkids what their point of view is on a specific situation if that situation touches their life in someway. But I don't engage in discussion. I just listen to their point of view and thank them for it. Then we move on to another topic (how is  your minecraft world developing? )  People interject their political opinions in tons of topics that could be discussed without the addition of the political element.  Case in point, we recently had a thread on name change going into page three when someone had to invoke a political statement.

I don't see this as a political thread. To me the political threads are the ones where "this side is bad" and "my side is right" "you have to think my way".  Asking how to navigate those personal relationships is something that needs to be discussed. To many friendship and families seem to be demolished over opposing political views. To me that is sad.

Human rights are not politics.

Thankfully I did not raise children who are anti human rights so I have no issue talking with them or discussing things. We can easily agree to disagree or talk things thru on all sorts of political topics because we do not have differing values on human rights.

My youngest son leans the same way politically but he is much more sympathetic to every human rights issue. I do empathize with many situations and consider myself a bleeding heart but I have to step back and put it into perspective. My son cannot and he gets mad at me for not caring more. I try to tell him that I can't always help the world and I do need to manage my own life. People in their 50s are still working, parenting, caregiving etc. There are days I have to shut off the news and block the noise.

We rarely talk about it. I'll never convince my DS to change his opinions.

We don't discuss politics with them.

Thankfully I haven't encountered this issue - my daughter leans the same way I do. My son is not in the slightest bit engaged in politics, but at least he votes the same way we do. And my dad is very firmly on the same side as me. 

I would be so upset if I lived in the US and either of my kids were on the other side. Devastated. I don't know how I would navigate it. I'm very thankful it's not an issue. 

We just had this happen last night. I asked not to do this, and it happened anyway. It was awkward and put a damper on the evening. They left on good terms, but it was just a weird feeling. Like they think you are stupid and you are left thinking-wtf just happened?!?!

DS and pretty much everyone in my family leans the same way so that's not an issue. My sister and BIL are republican but not heavy Trumpers so we just don't discuss with them.

I know lots of people say to write off those who support Trump but in reality, I can't write off a family member. I don't understand how someone can support hate, but I just have to subtly show them what they voted for.

In our house there are four of us that are Indept/Dem and one Rep.  The four of us talk freely and talk smack.  The one (who is the husband/dad) is under strict orders to say nothing.  We don't talk in front of him and he doesn't talk to us regarding politics.  PERIOD.  We all tried to have some civil conversation but it always ended bad.  So no talk at all.  

In the case of a child (adult I am assuming) the rules would be the same.. Keep yo mouth shut. For everyone.

We have some heavy duty Trump supporters in both sides of our family.. especially my sister-in-law, she even goes to all the rallies and front row and center (if she can).  I have no relationship anymore with her.  She is very in your face about it and she is very non understanding of transgender kids (or transgender in general).  While I have had a hard time dealing with it (not accepting it, I have accepted it fine, but just learning about it and just have a lot of emotions/questions, etc_) but her first question to me was how am I going to stop it.  Right there and then I knew my relationship with her was over. 

Luckily my parents, DH's mother, and our children, adult and otherwise, are all on the same page.

With extended family who feels differently, we either don't discuss it, or if it is brought up (briefly) I try to be as diplomatic as humanly possible (for me) about it.

I am struggling with this, bc I am pretty sure my parents voted red, and I think they honestly don't think we are all going to be effected. It used to be you could have a discussion and be a dem or a rep, but now it is so extreme. They don't want to discuss politics, but I feel very betrayed and worried, and want them to understand. They also continue to vacation with my MAGA uncle, who wears his red hat everywhere and is constantly trying to poke/instigate how much "winning" is happening. I unfriended him but I haven't blocked him bc I want to be aware of what poision he is feeding my parents. They won't cut him off bc my mom was very close to another brother, and when he passed, she used this brother to "fill the hole." Before the election, I posted about reading P2025 to warn yourself, and my dad told me I really should be careful about what I post, and totally gaslit me about how it wouldn't be that bad, there were guardrails last time and this time (HA!) will be the same.

I am angry that they aren't taking this admin seriously. I feel what is happening now is really going to effect my family - DH is a govt employee so the weekend emails make us stressed and anxious, plus he is worried about losing the probies that haven't been with them a year yet. I am a govt contractor so we worry about contracts not getting renewed, or cut, and both my kids have summer internships with the DoD (for now, anyway). So I limit my time with them, bc they are my parents, and my kids have strong relationships with them, but I truly feel like I cannot be myself around them, and I honestly am so stunned they have been brainwashed.