Posted on 06/09/2025 10:17:35 AM PDT by MosesKnows
All families are different.
Lots aren’t made up of nice people.
So don’t paint too broadly with the “But, they’re the only family you’ll ever have” crapola.
Lots of shiiitey people, in lots of families, need to be completely ignored, avoided and disregarded.
Watching the latest clips from LA reinforces that idea.
My friends and relatives on the right tend to respond to such infantile temper tantrums with, "Okay. Whatever. Bye."
Yes it is. We’ve got some weirdos around our family, both sides, as well. Thankfully the vast majority of us are normal.
My observation is that young leftists are more likely to cut off older conservative relatives. Social media encourages this.
Older people know better and simply have better manners. We are also less inclined to shun our own liberal children because we know that they will likely grow out of their stupidity as they too become parents and age.
What I’ve learned from my blue dog democrat mother-in-law who has 80% conservative children including my husband is to bite my lip and change the subject graciously. They aren’t really liberals, they’re old, unpolitical, uninformed and were raised Democrat by FDR worshipping parents. But we have great family reunions and there are a bazillion other things to talk about.
Currently 3 of my 4 kids are liberal idiots, but the oldest daughter is starting to change and her husband is newly conservative after the Biden interregnum. It was just too much crazy for him. If they become parents, the change will happen faster.
The son has never been liberal, like many male zoomers, he rejected the feminist bullshit that tickled his sisters’ ears.
Eventually, the younger girls will figure out they’ve been sold a pig in a poke. In the meantime, we just insist on good manners and being polite.
My brother is a flaming liberal. Everyone else in the family is conservative. My brother has basically cut off contact with us. One major problem is that, like most liberals, he cannot make coherent arguments for his case. He just gets mad. He can’t because some part of his brain is telling him that what he believes is wrong, but another part won’t admit it.
Example: I was at his house one time and he had the book “Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot” on his coffee table. I picked it up, opened it to a random page, and what was printed on that page was flat out, indisputably wrong. I told my brother that, and his immediate response was, “I don’t want to talk about it”.
“It broke my heart how cousins I played with for years and were so close with, literally lost their minds.”
We’ve been lucky. Recently, we had a cousins reunion, with about 100 attendees. 21 first cousins, their kids, grands, greats...
After the first hour, it had morphed into a MAGA rally. We’re all on the same page. Sweet.
I am so glad to hear that. God bless!
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