This thread has been very cathartic and has brought some family issues into focus.
A few years ago I rented a beach house with my brother, sisters, spouses, everyone’s children and my parents. There were enough bedrooms for each family (parents and their kids) to have a bedroom and bathroom. One brother and sister decided that their kids (my neices and nephews) needed their own bedroom and railroaded my oldest sister into sleeping on the pull-out sofa (she’d just had back surgery to boot) in the downstairs TV room with no bathroom - they knew she wouldn’t argue. They gave me a nice room with a balcony hoping I would keep quiet. A nasty argument ensued and we left the beach mid-week. We are civil now, but not close.
For years I have pondered how my own flesh and blood, brother and sister who were brought up in the same household as me, could be so coniving, arrogant and self-absorbed. (As you can imagine, there have been several similar instances but this was the worst.)
Seeing the posts about family have really helped me understand what I am actually dealing with. They don’t really talk about politics and I really don’t think any of them actually has a clue about what’s happening to our country - they’re too self-absorbed. But this is so clearly the mentality of the left.
What is worse, a lefty who has opinions but are wrong or a “christian” who will employ leftist tactics to get what they want but otherwise can’t be bothered to care about what’s happening to our country?
I’m feeling less guilty about being so alienated from my brothers, sisters, neices and nephews. Wrong is wrong and shouldn’t be rationalized, minimized or excused - it’s been our willingness to do all that that’s got us where we are today.
Thanks TruthHound and everyone that’s posted a comment - it’s been very healing and affirming.
Good post. The reason i have shunned almost all libs from my life is that most are thinly veiled communists and marxists at their core and I want nothing to do with that one any level.
I am so disgusted with what is going on in the country and I truly feel we are at the tipping point and almost point of no return.
Thankfully, most in my family are rabid conservatives and patriots, not pan handling marxists and leftists.