When Politics Is Personal: Friends & Family

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It's election season, and while politics may not seem like the domain of Dear Sugar Radio, it can become deeply personal. In Part 1, the Sugars look at how politics can get in between our relationships with friends and family—whether it be our parents voting for a candidate we despise, or our friends sharing views we find abhorrent on social media.

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:06.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:10.0	Sugar is here.
0:12.0	The both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:16.0	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:18.0	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:22.0	Oh dear, don't you please.
0:27.0	Yeah, some little sweet days we'd be.
0:37.0	I check my bell by every day.
0:45.0	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:51.0	Hi Steve.
0:55.0	Hi Cheryl.
0:57.0	It's an election year.
0:59.0	Have you noticed?
1:01.0	Yeah.
1:03.0	Well, and it's not really the terrain that we cover generally in Dear Sugar, which is much more about...
1:07.0	You know, the personal struggles that our letter writers and we are contending with.
1:11.0	But the political has become deeply personal in this election and has been increasingly so.
1:17.0	And we really wanted to take that on. We didn't want to pretend that this election thing that's happening isn't having a deep and serious internal impact on everybody who listens to us and everybody who doesn't listen to us.
1:29.0	I've always felt politics that way.
1:31.0	I would say, innately, that this is a subject exactly for Dear Sugar Radio.
1:35.0	Yeah.
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