Posted on 11/02/2020 8:31:15 AM PST by Stravinsky
Hey Dad,
Our relationship is strained.
It feels like it has been for a while. For the last four years, there has been an elephant in the room — I’d joke and call it an orange elephant, but I’m nervous that might end this earnest conversation before it even begins.
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Meanwhile, the U.S., which was built on immigration — grandma being one who fled the ravages of war in Europe for a better life here — is now a bastion of anti-immigrant hysteria. Our relatives on your side fought for the Union in the Civil War. Great-grandpa fought against the Russians in WWI, and granddad landed at Normandy to stop the rise of fascism. And now people are marching with tiki-torches shouting, “the Jews will not replace us.” What is happening?! Black men are shot down in the streets? Foreign nations are offering bounties on American soldiers?
And the President of the United States defends, rationalizes, or does nothing to stop this?
I’d say that’s insane, but I’m too heartbroken. Because every step of the way, I’ve heard you defend, rationalize, or enable him and the politicians around him. Not since I was a kid have I craved to hear your strong voice more, to hear you say anything reassuring, inspiring, morally cogent. If not for me, then for the world that will be left to your grandchildren. This does not feel like a good road we are going down…
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I need you not just to not vote for Trump this year, Dad. I need you to speak up. I need you to do something.
Your loving son,
Ryan
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Shut up, soy boy. You got enough to worry about in your life besides the election.
Dear Son,
I thought I told you to grow a pair.
Love, Dad
Dear son.
Pack your stuff and clean out the basement as you leave.
Dad.
Ryan’s tears are delicious.
Dear son,
Once you grow up, you’ll understand.
Dad.
Sort of the letter I want to send to my pastor, only different; he disrespects Western Culture and is a disciple of John Piper.
>> Great-grandpa fought against the Russians in WWI, and granddad landed at Normandy to stop the rise of fascism.
So they fought against the Russians and then in the next war they fought along side the Russians?
Where did his family stand during the Cold War?
Dear Son,
Based on this letter, you are my biggest failure. I thought I had taught you to think for yourself.
Dad
dear son
too bad
so sad
Your Dad
side note....my boys sacked up years ago.... :)
Ryan sounds like a candy ass
Our relationship is strained.
My boyfriend is really worried about me.
Son reminds me of a character in an old TV show that was nicknamed “Meathead”.
Our relatives on your side fought for the Union in the Civil War.
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Fighting Democrats.
Dad is still doing it.
Dear son, I brought you into the World and I can take you out. I can make another just like you.
My parents aren’t voting for Trump (or Biden) this year. Both voted for Trump in 2016. It is what it is. Leftists seem far more prone to breaking relationships over politics than conservatives.
Dad, please ask Mom to send down more mac and cheese to the basement. I'm in the middle of a Call of Duty mission and can't get it myself.
Oh, and tell her not to forget to cut up the hotdogs this time.
Women today are finding a shortage of men worthy of marriage, and they wonder why.
Schools are poisoning the kids. I had a nice Junior High friend of the family, very bright, says she will be pursuing a major in college that will allow her to work on her passion, climate change.
Too bad
So sad
Your dad
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