My least favourite question at these social gatherings you talk about is literally “what are you studying again?” It always goes one of two ways. I’m either to share my plans for how I’ll become prime minister and when (because what else would someone with a degree in political studies do?) or I’m to share my thoughts on Trump, which go a lot like the man hijacked my degree . . . I can’t think of a single lecture I’ve been to where it wasn’t Trump this or Trump that. From here, the conversation escalates.

Sometimes, my knowledge is put to the test. Why hasn’t the UK left the EU? What is the electoral college? Why didn’t the Conservatives win the election when they got the most votes? These are fair, normally unambiguous questions with usually unoffensive, non-opinionated answers.

Where I find the danger lies is in the facts people like to share at these gatherings. People don’t like being corrected — this much I know. What I also know is that people I associate with should not be going around justifying terrorism, making death threats on world leaders, or revising history to meet their right or left-wing needs.

To the above questions, some fast facts I’ve heard include:

The UK is not leaving the EU because the EU is paying off UK politicians to not leave. (ROFL)

The electoral college was established to make voting “fair”. (I can’t even.)

The Liberals rigged the election to be able to win with less votes than the Conservatives. (Canadian reference, sorry!)

These are in the conversation danger zone, especially among family. You can go from being university educated to brainwashed by liberal institutions in three seconds flat . . . maybe less. Isn’t it shocking the amount of government corruption that is in the Western countries we live in? And let me tell you, they especially don’t like when you tell them to go and live somewhere else (and to then come back and tell me about government corruption) . . . oops, that was the red wine talking.

Thanks for these tips and tricks.