For years... okay, for most of my life... I've dealt with being completely out of synch with my family when it comes to social justice and/or politics. I grew up during the sixties and seventies in a small Indiana city, and I totally bought into the liberal messages of the public service announcements of that era.
Right off the bat, that put me at odds with my own mother, a condition that has continued more or less unabated to this very day.
And yet, though I have always played a liberal alien to my hometown's science fiction movie conservative villagers, I was always able to find common ground with those close to me - neutral territory where we could safely admit we liked or loved one another even if we didn't agree on a damned thing.
These days, though, that neutral territory is shrinking to postage-stamp dimensions.