Posted on 03/29/2025 6:54:15 PM PDT by DoodleBob
We work at overcoming it but since democrats in my family far outnumber conservatives, it’s rough at times.
‘ You were the one who said you posted toxic bs.’
No. I didn’t. My god. I can be toxic, but reading comprehension is essential.
‘I was just asking if you agreed with your families response to it. Surely they should instead respond with love and care for you because you are so miserable and unhappy.’
My family hasn’t responded in this way.
You’re making crap up here.
Thank you. I actually do think it is LIVE, not Memorex. We have had a few, newsy emails that are not political, but there is this overshadowing expression of anger (feelings toward all GOP supporters, thus ME), that hangs in the air.
I keep praying the person will tire of spending so much emotional energy blaming “our side” for everything wrong in the world, but nothing so far would indicate a reduction in hostility.
Got a close relative that has gone quiet.
I’m giving her a year from the inauguration to cool down before I ask “what did or didn’t happen that you were so afraid of?” Haven’t decided yet if I’ll just phone or show up at her door.
Another isn’t real happy with me but we still talk/text. Her hubby’s job depends on gov’t grants so some stress there. He’s not mixed up in the social justice warrior crap.
My friends in high school and I were close up until my ex and I split. He got them in the, “divorce”, and they stuck with him. Once I started leaning right (I’m a Libertarian, by the way), they dropped me.
Haven’t spent real time with them in years.
They’re almost all borderline commies.
Some of these kids are disappointed in their lives. They blame their parents for their failures. It’s easier than realizing they are responsible for their unhappiness.
God first.
Do the reject Christ?
That is when some of my kin went from polite Yellow Dogs to flaming liberals.
I have not figured out how that was done other than the media they watched.
Also realized about a year + ago that Hussein has a daily podcast to keep the flames burning.
Sometimes, people are so lost and scared that they lash out at what’s in front of them. Perhaps that’s what’s happened to your relatives.
Again, with great reservation, I offer you this “meme’ as a possible point of engagement. Maybe your scared relatives will stop directing toward you their fear camouflaged as right-wing anger, and will seek common ground.
‘ Also realized about a year + ago that Hussein has a daily podcast to keep the flames burning.’
No he doesn’t.
He did 8 of them 4 years ago with Bruce Springsteen.
I know it’s no comfort, but you guys aren’t alone, and it’s not your fault. There is literally nothing in modern society that tells kids that it’s evil to cause that kind of pain to a parent.
And they have a swirling “mental health” cult that tells them they are brave, strong, principled, etc.
Your post is a great example of the problem being discussed.
I appreciate your comments. Not sure about who is shaking the jar. I suspect they would say it is Trump.
Maybe…something like this….
The question is, who benefits from this fracturing? Who gains from brother turning against brother, sister against sister, child against parent, friend against friend?
The nation is split 50/50. It’s not like Trump or Biden won by a landslide. Fracturing doesn’t tip the scales either way.
There are forces who really want us at each other’s throats. I’m not talking necessarily about some shadow “globalist” order or something like that. I’m not taking necessarily about Russia.
But the only way to take down our family - nay, our country, is through division.
And frankly, our family is too important for us to be separated because of whoever it is behind the curtain. Let us return to each other - we can leave politics out since what is more important is each other.
Not sure I follow your meaning? I was responding to that other person’s story. Unless there is something truly over the top going on, like child molestation etc... It’s a brutal overreaction to freeze out an elderly parent, and refuse them any comfort when they are ill.
And yes, young adults today are swirling in cult that tells them they are brave for freezing out parents no matter how much pain it causes that parent.
Any suggestion that compassion or forgiveness has a place in life is hooted and shouted down.
My post is a great example that generally petty causes should not be dealt with in a manner than is so extremist and pain causing.
Thanks to you and others who have commented with compassion. We provided the best parenting - not saying that it was perfect - that we could and it was mostly smooth sailing and peaceful family relations from the day she became an adult until the weirdness started during COVID.
I occasionally see her in a dream and savor a hug as she affectionately calls me “Daddy-O”
Just going by what is heard in the work truck from other vehicles when traffic slows or stops…Hussein preaching fire & brimstone.
Was always in the AM.
They’ll stomp even more if Grandma and Grandpa cut them out of their wills. And they’ll be SHOCKED that Grandma and Grandpa would do it to them.
Happened to me beginning in 2018, my sister and her evil, controlling husband sued me as executor of my Mother’s Trust, myself as an individual, and my Mother to Court who was in good health at the time beginning in 2014 which drug out for near 4 years and as the trial neared they recruited my oldest Son to testify against me and my Mother as he has a whole lot of anger issues due to my Ex-Wife lies. Anyway he got up there and lied about everything, how I mistreated him, his Grandma mistreated him, just BS lies... After that little incident he refuses to allow me to see the Grandkids or no interest in seeing his dying Grandma so I have prayed and prayed and God gave me the answer to let him go as he would deal with him and move on, so I have. Needless to say his life is pretty crappy these days..Good enough for him.
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