Posted on 06/16/2017 10:07:51 AM PDT by V K Lee
Dear X,
You and I had a sweet friendship: we raised children and discussed husbands together; we traded perennials and casseroles in times of need; we visited one another in funeral homes, hospitals and churches; we met one another’s families; we babysat and cleaned and laughed and cried together. I was the reason you homeschooled; you were the reason my dad got proper health assistance when he needed it.
You unfriended me. When you unfriended me from Facebook, I cared not. But you also unfriended me from your life. That hurt deeply and it still does. Even though I never supported him until it came time to vote, you unfriended me because I spoke in Donald Trump’s defense one too many times―while you campaigned relentlessly for HRC and insisted she was the hope of the future. That was it, nothing more. We never even exchanged volleys of words or ideas, until it was time for you to tell me why I was gone.
Why am I writing this so many months after the event itself? I will not even send this to you. You will probably never see it. But I feel it necessary to put the words on paper in light of yesterday’s shooting at the baseball field.
You say you support the Democratic Party. You support their ideals and politics. You are a respected woman in the community—a woman with elite degrees that few attain, a wife of a successful man. And yet you support a party of fools. The party you support is associated with pink vagina hats; congressmen flipping the bird toward our president while leading chants of “F*** Trump!”; women demonstrating naked to make some sort of mysterious point; lies spewed constantly and regurgitated ad nauseum; a candidate who lied and cheated and stole and violated the laws of our hallowed land; a comedienne holding a faux severed, bloody head of our sitting president; and, today, a marksman searching out members of the opposite party and successfully gaining purchase. Your party instigates hatred and violence and judgment.
What does this have to do with you, you ask? You would never do any of those things, so why am I so angry and tying these malevolent acts to you? Because you, my old friend, are one and the same. It all begins personally, it all begins at home.
If you cannot even abide a difference with an old, loved friend, you are fomenting the very intolerance that your party seethes over. You are raising children to be as short-sighted and critical as you, who will not be able to think critically to discover the truth for themselves. You are insulating yourself from differences that might expand your worldview, preferring instead your insular existence built on half-truths.
That is the reason for this letter. Truth must reside within us, as must respect for our fellow man. Without those, we are lost, and lost forever. It is only when we can shake hands across the proverbial aisle with open eyes and a care for one another that supersedes differences that true change can be evinced.
May God bless us all.
“...while you campaigned relentlessly for HRC...”
I think I see the funda-”mental” problem.
Adjust your will accordingly.
“How do we explain, then, a son who has not talked to me since the election and put out on Facebook that his parents are racist, bigoted, homophobes?”
I have the same problem with my son.
We we not hateful when they had Obama.
Just keep praying.
They hate John Wayne.
It’s sad.
How many millions in this country have sold their vote and more importantly, their soul, for a mere pittance - $450 per month in welfare plus a few hundred in food stamps, or $1400 in social security?
It’s unbelievable to me; as I can’t even conceive of that myself, let alone understand it.
After the election, he blocked every family member on Facebook. Several of us even sent, "Ok, election's over, but we're family, let's move on and forget about it" emails. But no response. On memorial day, the family has a tradition of putting flowers on departed relatives graves, he has shown up to ever one for over 30 years. But not this year, he didn't show. I guess he really did disown us over Trump....
In time you will know peace.
He didn’t know our modern day democrats.
No loss. We don’t need dark side dwellers in our lives.
Thomas Jefferson never dealt with friends who turned into crazies.
That was what I was about to post. Back when the muslim occupied the White House, When I heard someone say “ I voted for obama”, we parted company then and there. I had nothing else to do with them. I did not cuss them out, I did not create a scene, I just did not a have anything to do with them.
“Courage is the foundation of all the other virtues.”
Democrats are afraid. They are deathly afraid that their lives are going to get worse.
Have you ever been around a truly frightened person? They just want whatever frightens them to go away. There’s no debate. They just want whatever is frightening them to be gone.
Greed and fear.....the cornerstones of the Democrat tribe.
I, too, neither on FB nor twitter. A hermit here, perhaps, but enjoying the peace and solitude. There is no need for such daily combat in life. To continue to interact in a one sided conversation (THEY do all the talking; YOU remain silent, nonspeaking) is unrewarding after you’ve learned all there is to be taught. FB/twitter is seldom visited and its pages never written upon.
These are not friends, only ‘pen pals’. We’ve seen the ads on tee vee, when donations are asked for poor, hungry children.
I'll shuffle off to my cave, then...
Being rejected by a child has to be the worst kind of pain.
May God help you.
“She was never truly a friend, just an acquaintance.”
Yup. You didn’t really know each other. When you revealed your personal values and principles, she revealed hers, and bailed. Better late than never.
Well, don’t give him anything. Especially don’t give him money. It makes the problem MUCH worse. I’ve seen families ripped apart because of money.
If he wants to wallow in his Hate, that’s his decision. All white people are racist in the eyes of some so he is just as guilty as you.
When my brother starts on Trump, I just respond “Hillary couldn’t even beat him. What’s that say about her?”.
I’m so sorry to hear that. Hopefully he will come to his senses soon. My parents were extreme leftists and when I finally did get interested in politics I joined the republican party, much to my parent’s dismay. My dad would even yell at me sometimes when some political issue came up, I thought he was going to disown me. I finally learned not to ever talk about anything political, even changing the subject if mentioned.
“That’s is what bothers me about half of America and now they want to kill us. What the heck is that all about?”
All leftist thought, from the limousine liberalism of Barbara Streisand all the way to the murderous excesses of Mao, is of and from Satan. That is what it is about.
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