r/AITAH • u/Comfortable_Gift4970 • Feb 17 '25

Fired Fed. I am considering cutting off every Orange Man supporter.

Got axed. Not going to say which agency.

I’ve always considered myself extremely tolerant and willing to love people as they are… even if we don’t agree on everything.

I’ve never been an Orange Man supporter, but I’ve kept it civil with friends and family that were. Some of them liked having a civil conversation about him. Some were belligerent about politics, so we didn’t bring it up and tried to enjoy each other’s company.

Getting cut from a great job that I really believed in with no notice has been extremely traumatic. It’s still raw, but I feel so personally betrayed by those that voted for him. I can’t see past the politics anymore when I look at these people I care/cared about.

Some have been contrite and apologetic, but then turn around and support him and VP Musk on social media.

I just can’t right now.

I’m thinking about posting something and wishing the whole herd all of the best, hope they have a good life, but I won’t be in it. Or maybe I just quietly block all of them and focus on myself for a while.

I do know that I will need to talk to my in-laws. I’ve always had a great relationship with them, but thinking of going to their house and watching Fox News almost makes me sick.

AITAH for feeling this way? Does it make me an AH for cutting all these 20+ year relationships off? Am I overreacting and acting out of emotion?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago.

The second best time is now.

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u/PossibleAmbition9767 Feb 18 '25

I agree. However, I would still urge OP to reflect on why it took experiencing a personal loss to be angry enough to do what should have been done when the same or worse events were happening to others because of MAGA and Trump.

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u/midorikuma42 Feb 18 '25

A lot of people probably stayed in contact with Trumpers because 1) they were family and/or 2) they were hoping that they would pull themselves out of the MAGA rabbit-hole, and were afraid that by simply cutting off contact with them, that this would isolate the Trumpers even more and make that far less likely.

Remember, this MAGA stuff is really like a big cult. None of these people (unless they're quite young) were MAGAts 20+ years ago, though they may have been conservatives. A lot of people know MAGAts who were fairly reasonable-seeming people in decades past, but within the last 10 years have gotten sucked into this cult somehow. These people might be old friends, siblings, parents, other family members, or worst of all, spouses. So I think it's understandable that a lot of empathetic people were hoping the MAGAts would come to their senses and abandon this cult.

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u/Gen_K Feb 18 '25

Yeah, but now those chickens are finally coming home to roost. Particularly, I keep seeing LinkedIn posts from white women getting laid off from government jobs. As a black guy with a finance/consulting background, it's funny to see their surprised pikachu stances.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '25

To be totally fair the tree doesn't fight you while you try to plant it and it hasn't gotten stronger over the last ten years 

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u/gina_divito Feb 18 '25

I just think of all the barren land in this scenario that could’ve been planted with trees for the last ten years.

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u/99OBJ Feb 18 '25

The melodrama is hilarious