Political anxiety.

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How do you handle slight political disagreements with other people? Like if someone brings up a touchy subject that you happen to disagree with. And they normally wish you get COVID or scream names bye calling you human trash if you even slightly disagree with someone. I might even consider not being friends with people who get political I just want to feel safe. How do y’all handle this stuff?

Try to ignore them , just don’t give them extra fuel to fan their anger , we are in a hotbed of political times just now .

I politely inform them that their political party aren't the ones running the show right now, and wish them a good four years, because I'm sure going to enjoy them.

Religion and politics have usually been topics people avoid because they often touch at a deep level of what is held dear. There are parallels in other areas like sports. If one suggested that a favorite sports star performed poorly, one may also incur the wrath of a fan. This is because people associate their identity with such things and become insulted if a "discouraging word' is heard.

It may be possible to have a discussion if you can find someone who takes a more analytical approach (as opposed to emotional) to such subjects, but they are very pretty rare.

Why did someone wish Covid on you and call you human trash? Seems kind of extreme for a slight disagreement.

I suppose if I slightly disagreed with someone and they said that to me, I'd probably just avoid further interactions with them.

I try to stay out of political discussions because I'm a Trump Fan and I know I'll get eaten alive if I mention my views in political threads.

Huh, the people I discuss politics with are really civil. I'm sorry to heat that your discussions have been with less civil people.

Politics and Religious beliefs often invoke idealism that can often cross over into the realms of delusion.
People also often have extremely strong views on these areas.

So I would say tread carefully and try and be understanding, while at the same time retain your own opinions / faith.

Some with extreme views however will never be satisfied unless you completely agree with them.
These types of people, i advise you to do your best to avoid these types of people, as they are generally people who are difficult and in my experience, impossible to reason with. Such people can also be very dangerous.

So, do your best to avoid fanatics.

If they pursue you, try and get away without saying anything. As in my experience, people who gravitate to political movements often use political means to achieve their desired results, especially when it comes to the far right,
who will lie, slander, bribe, sabotage, set up etc. perhaps even try and use the police against you.

So, do your best to avoid and not bite on any thing that they do in order to attempt to provoke you to act,
which they can then twist or use to try and incriminate you so that you will get in trouble.

I just ignore them. Conservative family members always get brick walled by me if they try to talk about politics.

You want to talk to me about how COVID is a "fake Chinese virus" and the vaccine is gonna "give people autism/make them gay/kill them"? Sorry, I can't hear you. I suddenly am too preoccupied reading this shampoo label.

Yeah, I'm trying to just avoid disagreeing with people who are generally on the same side as me. I can get nit-picky with relatively minor things that I feel like people are doing "wrong". This behavior seems to increase with my stress levels/irritability and also contributes to it. I don't know why I do this, but it's weird and hypocritical I guess because I get incredibly annoyed when my mom nit-picks at things I do. It tends to happen seemingly automatically, or like not within my immediate meta-awareness. Rarely if ever has it happened that I was able to stop and think "don't do this, it's not worth it".

A rule of thumb I've recently decided to use is: "If it's directly political / normative / tribalistic, avoid it, but if it's something you agree with and want to promote, like/share/RT it." This may not be the best policy, because maybe there are things that should be nit-picked at, but when I'm stressed/irritable my judgment is kind of impaired and it becomes harder to discern between "worth-nit-picking-at" vs. "not-worth-nit-picking-at". I suspect the nit-picking is just a stupid unhealthy coping mechanism that I might have implicitly learned from my mom growing up, I don't know. Or maybe it's a common unhealthy coping mechanism of my personality type.