I hate to admit it, but I have a brother that I haven’t spoken to in 6 years. Not because I wouldn’t like to, but because he has decided to estrange himself from our family. I think he won’t talk with me or others in our family, because he is a compulsive liar and ashamed. He doesn’t understand that despite the stuff he’s said or not, we are a forgiving family. I always pray for a change of heart.
My oldest brother is one of these “Resist!” people, and his whole family and those on his wife’s side were all in on Tim Kaine.
During the 2020 campaign, he accidentally included my name on an email sent to all of his “Resist!” people organizing subterfuge. I am pretty certain he didn’t send it deliberately, it was just a big distribution, but it made me pretty angry to realize that was how much he had thrown in with those absolute scumbags, and saddened me even more.
My brother has known for years I am conservative, and markedly so, but I thought he was somewhat indifferent, might never even have voted, but found otherwise.
I had a party, and invited my whole family as well as others, and my brother started talking politics and badmouthing Trump and his policies, and I squashed it loudly and vocally as everyone looked on. I had warned in advance I didn’t want any political talk, but those types cannot help themselves. They left shortly after.
We both came to terms with it, and talked about it, and I visit him occasionally. We don’t talk politics.
He is my brother, so I try to maintain relations with him.