There are going to be members of the extended family that, if they make it to the BOL are going to be more drag than pull...I am not going to go out of my way to create more imbalance that threatens all.
PS-I plan on taking the night shift.
Yea, night shift probably isn't for the "trial period" - but if you don't think you could ever trust that person with night shift and there isn't something else they can do you really need, then you shouldn't have them around.
Family will always be difficult ( you don't choose them) but they are part of the family because someone in the family cares about and for them. Use that relationship into pressuring them to come up to speed. Family politics will get even worse during Teotwawki - but now there is a very real prospect of being booted from the island if they don't fall in line, and being booted will have much more severe consequences. Sheep adapt very quickly to what the herd is doing - you might find even the most vocal liberal in your family will change their ways when immersed in a new post SHTF culture - not because of any chane of heart, but because that is what the other animals are doing now ( Most rank and file Libtards have no loyalty to the ideology. They appear committed to it because it strokes their ego and its what they see as "mainstream" - the herd says its true.... but its a go along to get along philosophy , and in post SHTF they may continue to go along to get along and seek their ego stroking in other ways ( hopefully healthy ones that involve actually doing something worthwhile) that their new herd demands.
But I could be wrong.. If my mother had chosen to remain married to my stepdad, she would still have access to my children, and I would still be tolerating her presence at family occasions. It was her divorce that made it possible to cut her limb from the family tree, and nothing in her attitude has changed - if anything she is more entrenched and has taken to calling me closed minded because I require that someone prove me wrong - using a reasoned argument citing facts and evidence, with an opportunity to counter-argue and have that rebutted before I change my mind. You see, "life is too short" to argue with me, but it isn't too short to hold a gun to my head and demand that I buy the right kind of health insurance....and besides overseas worse things are happening so I should accept her lesser bullying for my own good. I hope she shows up on my lawn post SHTF just so I can tell her to go ask Obama for help, maybe he will send some goons to my house to steal some things for her ( for my own good of course. )