Posted on 06/28/2013 5:39:09 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
My sister emailed me to lay off Obama and "gays" on Facebook or she would have to block me. I saved her the trouble and unfriended her.
It breaks my heart but at this point I have no desire to even talk to her or her family. Has anyone else had to deal with this?
That is what upsets me so much. She doesn’t have to agree with me but she has no right to try and silence me. I am really hurt.
Yes, I have a sister who, along with her husband, are rampant liberals. They have actively campaigned for 0bama, attended the inauguration in January. They are all into global warming, union rights, etc. Probably the only reason I put up with this is to spare my other sister from hurt of the fracture it would cause to write off the liberal one.
The very most hurtful interaction was when my son was in Ramadi, Iraq on his second tour with the USMC, Al Qaeda all around and trying to kill them every minute of every day, and she provoked an argument about we would never have been in Iraq if not for George Bush’s lies.
Now her son has joined up with the USAF, my only hope is that sequestration keeps him from flying much.
She is 52 years old, continues to blame our poor mother for her “victim” lot in life, believes the government is better equipped to make all of our choices for us, and has a deeply ingrained intellecutal snobbishness, because they are “so educated”.
It is very difficult.
LOL
No kidding...and it may be g-o-n-e literally this morning...the wind is horrific in rural areas with a bit of elevation this morning...just another 'unusual' June northeaster moving thru.
Since there is no reasoning with them or any way (save a miracle)you can use logic and common sense (two words!) to make them understand, sometimes the best bet is to sever ties with those supporters. Even if they are family. Friends, family, whatever. You have to cut them loose. Get some business cards made up to stick under the windshield wipers of cars you see that have the obie stickers on them saying, “Thanks for your support. Not really!”. Or something else to let them know they screwed us. Twice!
I do not allow leftists/Democrats to darken my door...ever. Don’t give a damn who they are...life is too short to waste precious time with them. You aren’t going to change their mind, so kick them to the curb with last week’s garbage.
I will not compromise my beliefs and I won’t be silenced. Why are live so scared of other opinions?
How very timely!!!
We just had a “get together” with cousins who live in Singapore and get to the States once a year (company paid, of course). He considers himself a “man of the world”, internationally savvy and sophisticated. (His kids plan to go to college here, nevertheless.)
He hates guns (though he lives in one of the most police-state countries of the world) and sniffs at those of us who own them. Had to tell him in rapturous words how much fun I had two weeks ago at the shooting range and that when the SHTF, he’s family and we’ll come to his rescue! He sneered...
Pompous a**!!!!!!
I’ve had to deal with it with my sister’s husband. It hasn’t gotten to the “unfriend” stage yet - but it’s coming.
Several of our relatives are nobama-bots. They have a hard time with facts and with reality. My hope is that they suffer greatly as their idiotic policies are experienced. Many have chosen to not communicate...good...it saves me the frustration. Life is too short to waste time with these koolaid-drinking clones.
I just basically tell them, “Look, I’m not going to change your mind, and you aren’t going to change mine, so let’s just leave it at that.”
I don’t do facebook and don’t really get into deep political discussions with very liberal relatives.
I have a cousin who is so proud that she will be among the first 40 gay couples to be married in Minnesota at 3AM. Now they’re upset that the family won’t be attending.
Dumbasses. Most of the family lives here in Michigan and have no interest in going to Minnesota to watch them play pretend at 3 AM.
Exactly.
I don’t talk politics with her ever because I know how she feels. But for her to tell me what I can’t say on Facebook makes me so angry and hurt my feelings.
I do not hate, and never have hated Obama. I hate what he is doing to my country, and feel that removing him by any means necessary would be a benefit to the United States of America. I pray for him to see God’s light and repent, then start repairing the damage he’s done.
But I’m also a realist, and it ain’t gonna happen.
I had just such a confrontation two weeks ago over Islam. Some relatives called opposition to Islam in the wake of the London beheading, “fascist”
and “racist”. I pointed out neither of these terms could apply logically to
opposition to Islam. Backlash against Islam was then called a “hate crime”...
But the decapitation was just a few bad apples. I know, most of my family
are ignorant and beyond brainwashed. They actually believed several
Muslims has been stabbed as a result. I wonder if they ever bothered
To check that. Unlikely. I try to avoid subjects such as this around
my family.
Not ‘gays’; sodomites or queers. Don’t let them control the language.
LOL great story
If the subject is politics then kick booty, let ‘let er rip.
But if you are the one who keeps steering the subject
toward politics and you keep making the same points
then you might be a boor, you might be the problem.
The Sivad family is all conservative but our motto is:
“Don’t Hannity the family”
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