Posted on 07/03/2025 5:50:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Our oldest daughter will be 29 in November. She has a wide circle of friends, most of whom are scattered across the country, so Facebook is how they stay in touch.
Let’s just say her voting for Trump this last November hasn’t gone over well -- at all. And she’s having a very rough time of it. Really struggling. Partially because that’s how lefties do you, but also because she’s genuinely trying to understand them and, crucially, have herself be understood. She’s highly intelligent, extremely articulate, and very careful with her language, but she’s still getting what we old-timers would call “flamed.” It’s hurting her heart enormously and as a result, it’s hurting mine, her mother.
And I don’t know how to help her. I’m struggling. She’s going through her foul progressive baptism like I did nearly twenty years ago with the coming of Obama on the scene. Back then, I had no idea how they’d lie, cheat, scheme, and steal, every minute of every day, without ceasing, without remorse, without, seemingly, any sense of fatigue. I had no idea how widespread it was. Oh, I knew the media and academia were hopelessly liberal, but I had no idea how poisonously progressive they were. I had no idea how intractable they were. Immune to any kind of reason or, as social media likes to call them, “receipts.”
One of our daughter’s most trafficked Facebook posts was one heavy with “receipts.” She provided all the proof any reasonable person would need to understand her thinking regarding the matter at hand. She used the Washington Post, The New York Times, etc. Outlets they hold dear (mostly). Nope. No good. They responded with “the feels.” She even asked, specifically, to please respond with links of their own, because she was open to their
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The chick is ALMOST THIRTY! Grow the hell up, lady.
IIRC, when we were bombing Iran, one of our bases in that area evacuated thousands of our military. The skeleton crew left to manage the place was under 20 people. Their ages were 21 to 28 years old.
She’s 30, and WHINING. Good grief!
Now if you don’t talk about politics, they’ll just assume you’re a “fascist”.
Remember when they were calling Taylor Swift a “Nazi”, because she never commented on politics?
Well she sure got “religion”, eventually.
She can pray for her friends but it would probably be best to reduce and minimize contact over time. If she can help any of them out, do so. It may help change hearts.
I feel for no one who even tries to coexist with the left. She’s still young. Hopefully there still time for her to learn interdependence...
Well, yeah...my Ex hit me ONCE...one and done.
“When you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”
That’s a good one!
“it’s very difficult to just cut members of your family out of your life, “
Not really, if they’re mouthy libs.
When people voted for Harris they were supporting silencing anyone who didn’t support the Democrat agenda. To vote this way they had to be evil, stupid, or both. If someone wants me silenced, what is the point of engaging? They just want a one way conversation on any substantive topic. You can continue banal conversations but the available topics keep getting narrower and narrower.
The daughter needs to learn the old adage “Never try to teach a pig to sing. It annoys the pig and you get covered in mud.”
Nothing she does to convince the flamers of the rightness of her beliefs matters. She will have to take comfort in knowing they are wrong. The lies they believe are too deeply ingrained for her to dig out. She should remain clear about what she believes and not get drawn into arguments.
If common goals (even if how those goals should be reached differ) can be found that can be a good jumping point for civil discussion. These might be personal such as improving your diet or public such as cost of gov’t funded projects.
Some of her so called friends will insist on being harpies. The answer to them is silence and a complete severance of any contact. Life is too short to indulge those types.
This is what happens when you don’t leave Junior High behind.
Pretty much.
How any believer can align themselves with and vote for people who campaign on and legislate to murder babies with impunity, molest children with perverted books in school and mutilate children’s genitals is inconceivable.
My standard definition of leftists is adult size children.
At some point I would just start posting to FB every conservative Meme she finds. And there are tons of them.
If they unfriend her for her political beliefs but expect her to accept theirs, they are not “liberal” but fascist.
That's the easy part. It keeps our status up. Always play with a better tennis player. Exclusivity and all that. Richer than thou, more powerful than thou, holier than thou.
TELL HER TO DROP FACEBOOK FOR A PERIOD OF TIME WHILE SHE BUILDS UP HER DEFENSES.
LETTING OTHERS INFLUENCE HER THAT MUCH IS NOT HEALTHY.
TELL HER TO THIN ABOUT:
LEAD
FOLLOW
OR GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY
HAVING FEWER REAL FRIENDS & GETTING RID OF “NOT FRIENDS” IS MORE IMPORTANT
SCORPIO’s ARE USUALLY STRONGER THAN THIS
Well, it makes it easier for her to tell who her friends really are. There’s a blessing in that.
I agree. Better than wasting any more time on them.
THANK YOU! That’s exactly what I was thinking. She’s farm-raised and acting like this? “Oh, Godfather, I don’t what to do, I don’t know what to do.”
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