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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To understand liberals, you have to understand that they are miserable, miserable people who are perpetually outraged, and who do NOT want to make nice with anyone but their fellow perpetually outraged comrades.
This is so on point that it bears repeating.
that it’s very difficult to just cut members of your family out of your life
Once the initial guilt wears off, it’s gone and done..a week at longest. Those that you cast aside will not miss you and your opinions, and will be glad to be shed of you.
(Evil)…is inconceivable.
….to you, but well ingrained into those self righteous true believers
Nothing new. I’m 66.
When fools call someone a “fascist” or “Nazi”, I demand that they describe what those terms mean. Not with ‘feelings’ but with objective standards.
Easy for me, because I have met and talked with real (aged) German Nazis and former Nazis, and even a former Italian fascist. I can even start them simply by asking them what the *acronym* Nazi (NSDAP) stands for. I know this because I have studied history.
Of course they fail even the simplest version of this because they have no idea what they are talking about. And this makes them a fool. So let them know that each and every time in the future they call *anyone* a “fascist” or a “Nazi”, they will be publicly called a “fool”.
I can even start them simply by asking them what the *acronym* Nazi (NSDAP) stands for. I know this because I have studied history.
Which is why Communists never used the term “Nazi”, but always “Fascist”.
They were never her friends, they were acquaintances.
The requirements for friendship are
Trust
Common interests
Mutually transactional
Your daughter has lost one or more of these aspects.
They are no longer friends.
Just trash his email. It’s his religion and he’s a zealot.
Never.
They are making lists.
“At some point I would just start posting to FB every conservative Meme she finds.”
My sister does that, but never checks to see if there are comments. She calls it drive-by posting.
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