Posted on 10/31/2020 7:23:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Emotional extortion seems to be more widely and openly practiced these days. Just when I thought it couldn't get much worse, a young woman on TikTok proudly displayed the story of how she and her five sisters had "intense exchanges" with her terminally ill father. Her problem was that he was conservative and planned to vote for Trump. She explained — on index cards to background music — that the talks were hard because "we'll almost certainly lose him in the next few weeks/months." In the end, the father told them that he voted "for Biden-Harris 2020."
The gushing daughter reported that her father said he did so "because it matters to my girls and my girls matter to me." She actually saw this abuse of a father's love as a victory she should publicly declare. No matter one's favored candidate, such deathbed badgering is ghastly.
This sort of cruel manipulation — to get vulnerable loved ones to prove their love by forcing them to vote a certain way — seems to have become more common these days. Hard-left young adults tell their parents that unless they vote their way, they won't let them see their grandchildren anymore. Black Lives Matter agitators tell the "white-privileged" that the only way to prove they are not racist is to cut off relationships with any family and loved ones who do not take part in BLM protests or support BLM financially.
There are many scenarios in which people apply personal pressure and undue influence to win votes. In addition to pressure from loved ones, groupthink and the general fear of being smeared as a bigot can be powerful tools of influence.
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He’ll curse his daughters with his last breath.
As the older person, I would simply lie about my vote. That’s what the younger fools are doing. Sure explains the disparity in the polls.
Badgering on the deathbed! Yep, that is certainly something to boast about!
Elderly abuse.
If I were denied access to my grandchildren, my next call would be to estate planning attorney.
Because of mail in voting and because he didn't want to further endanger his marriage he voted for Biden.
His wife checked to make sure before they sealed his ballot into the envelope.
To get back at her he kept bringing up Trump in our conversations hoping we would say how much we loved Trump in front of his wife, but we didn't want to make her cry. So he basically got screwed.
Should have made it so simple that even the daughters could understand: write em OUT of the will.
That’s no marriage. Does she dress him, too?
Children love cookies. They need steak. A parent will understand that the child doesn't set the rules. Sure, from time to time the little whippers "win" but there shall never be cookies for dinner.
I’d leave my entire estate to Project Veritas before giving one red cent to those miserable bitches.
“Because of mail in voting and because he didn’t want to further endanger his marriage he voted for Biden.”
Can’t he do one of those things where he changes his vote?
Or perhaps your friend read Lysistrata in high school.
I recently donated to their lawsuit against the New York Times for defamation.
Project Veritas sues New York Times over ‘dishonest’ report on ballot-harvesting sting
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/30/project-veritas-sues-new-york-times-over-dishonest/
Looks like his mind checked out before anything else.
My brother got control of my father on his deathbed. He told him that my little brother and I hated him. He had him rewrite the will to leave him everything. I knew this. I spoke to my father on his deathbed via telephone. My brother was monitoring the call and had blocked all prior correspondence.
I told my Dad I loved him. He said he loved me too (so much for my elder brother’s lies). I don’t believe Dad knew that my elder brother had rewritten his will. I didn’t bring it up. I loved my Dad. I gave up my inheritance so that his final days would be good ones. He didn’t need to know the scumbag his eldest son was. I didn’t need “things” so badly that I would jeopardize or tarnish his final days.
“I gave up my inheritance so that his final days would be good ones.”
I’m going to try to remember this, because I don’t think I’d be able to do that, and I’d like to be that kind. Well done, good and faithful son.
“I would simply lie about my vote.”
If it’s not secret balloting someone can watch how you vote or force you to vote a certain way.
Secret balloting can be made less convenient by having more polling places, even putting them into vehicles that can circulate through neighborhoods.
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