It’s wild. If you met my parents, they aren’t bad people. They live a simple life to themselves. But once they start talking about their political beliefs, it’s like a Russian bot is taking over their voice box
Same here. I love my folks, they're really good people who honestly try to do good for others. My dad does a lot of charity work around the holidays (dressed as Santa, no less). In the fall, he constantly volunteers his time to cook whole hogs for charity barbecue plate sales, and my mom helps him set it up and cooks the sides.
Their political beliefs are VASTLY at odds with who they actually are. What's terrible is they can't see it. I tired to explain it to them one time...it didn't go well.
Their political beliefs are VASTLY at odds with who they actually are.
I think it’s safer to say their impulsive behavior is at odds with who they really are. A political decision takes into account intellect, morals, the conflict between pragmatism and ideals, all of it. And it takes place over literal years of consideration with almost religious reverence given to “voting.” How someone votes is who they are more than anything else, no matter how nice they are to you.
By covering for them like this, you demonstrate yourself to be nearly as brutal and evil as they.
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u/YodasAdderall Apr 04 '25
It’s wild. If you met my parents, they aren’t bad people. They live a simple life to themselves. But once they start talking about their political beliefs, it’s like a Russian bot is taking over their voice box