"How to stop judging people who pay for purebred dogs"

It's not me, it's you.

Original column: Carolyn Hax, January 3 2025

My take: This post is about disagreement, so I thought I’d start with a list of the things we used to be able to discuss with each other, but are now too political.

I don’t mean Republican-Democratic political, which is so manifestly poisonous it no longer even bears mentioning. I mean household stuff. Even our…