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Best Movies and Songs for a Peaceful Post-Election Thanksgiving: From ‘Meet the Fockers’ to ‘All You Need Is Love’
Need to break post-presidential election tension that surfaces its ugly head at the Thanksgiving table? Here's watch/listen lists to ease the anxiety.
To chill the room when the tempers are flaring hotter than a roasted turkey thigh, here are 10 songs and 10 movies designed to bring family peace and also ensure that all pies, pumpkin, peach or pecan, stay on the table for dessert and are not utilized as airborne missiles of political vengeance. The original peace and love troubadour has been calming down rancor, discord and bad vibes for nearly 60 years, starting with offering to clean up that broken bottle mess in the Dylan doc “Don’t Look Back.” This neat Zen ditty makes the point that no matter who won the election, it’s now time to breathe deep, dig the slowness and catch the wind. Her dad’s a crazy military intelligence fruitcake who makes you feel like a refugee at the dinner table, but we can still laugh and celebrate the wacky ways that love conquers all, socio-politico prejudices and punctures all poli-sci prickliness.
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