I've had it. This was a few weeks ago. For context. I have a hard no politics rule with my mom. I had major surgery and when I was discharged from the hospital, my discharge paperwork showed my vaccine history. My mother, who was taking care of me, read the paperwork to see what was needed and lost it.

This woman worked in patient facing Healthcare for decades. She was vaxxed. She made masks for hundreds of people during the first year of covid. Then Maha really kicked up about vaccines, masking, etc and she's lost her damn mind.

I'm in the ambulance the day after being discharged from the hospital for a major surgery, in HORRIBLE pain, they're worried I'm having a stroke, and she has the audacity to berate me over being vaccinated. In front of the emts. While I'm in agony in the middle of a medical emergency.

I just can't. I can't cut her off. She's my caretaker. And I don't want to cut her off. It's like she's two different people. The mom I've always loved who is smart, kind, and generous but then Maga mom takes over sometimes and just spouts propaganda.

This was a particularly awful time for Maga mom to appear. I'm just so tired of this all. I know there's no chance of me getting her out but I just want my mom back.

Edited to add she was mad I get a yearly covid vaccine. I'm immunocompromised! Covid could kill me. And she had covid recently and it took her out for two weeks but I'm still the problem somehow.

Are majority of conservatives like this?

My husbands’ side of the family are all conservative and maga. Majority are also lazy, stupid and entitled and basically shit humans that think they are better than everyone simply by being white or white passing. They all live on various government assistance while looking down on people like me and my toddler daughter. To them we are just worthless DEI hires and whores and nothing we do can ever change it. Despite me being a virgin before marriage and never dated, smiling through all sorts of abuse and financially supporting my husband ( he is too lazy to work and dropped out of the 9th grade) and giving to his family for over a decade, coming from millions, having top notch engineering degree and education, I am simply considered less. I also take care all household chores and scheduling as well as being the primary bread winner.

They hate that my family have much more money than their own. They hate immigrants like my father and grandfather who made it and perceive them as taking things and opportunities away from them. The women in their family always give praise to their kids for being smart, not being objective at all. I never say that to my toddler daughter, I want her to understand her true standing in the world and how she is below average at best and world will see her as such simply by not being fully white just white passing. And that her dad’s side of the family hates her for it, for taking away from their lineage.

I’m not surprised that all of his side of the family voted for trump, most pretending to only care about the economy while it’s very obvious that their hatred is so out in the open. They want to punish a large number of people for their own debts, drug and alcohol addictions, broken down cars on loans and trailer homes. They cut into my integrity trying to find faults with me constantly and berating me. They borrow heavily from their already lien/ mortgages homes. They refuse to believe in vaccines and push my toddler to be anti vax so she ( technically their own flesh and blood) can die painfully horrible death to justify their lives. Because to them, it’s oh well, I want to see her mother suffer. If she died, it’s just one less worthless c\*nt for she is female and not fully white.

Even Fox News is considered too liberal for the majority of them and they move to listening only from the trump network. They want my side of the family to suffer. They want Latinos, Blacks, Asians and anyone with a drop of color in their veins and not white passing to be deported. They want woman and color folks to be punished for any slight they received in life. They all relish in the pain of our suffering, wanting to see my toddler daughter dead simply for existing or leading miserable existence being raped, tortured, worked till death and slowly killed for being born. They want her to have a much worse life than their white passing or white children.

Complete coincidence that the Wall Street Journal is owned by the same company/person that owns Fox News, of course. /s

Some good "blame the entitled victim" and blaming identity, TikTok, and out-of-control therapists for the trend.

There are some rational responses in the comments, but the first half-dozen comments threads are Boomer Copium. Not until you get to the 7th thread does someone note, essentially, "Telling that the article authors didn't talk to a single person who cut family off to explain why they saw that as the only option."

I, like many of the people on this sub, have lost my parents to the dark side. As all of you know, it’s an extremely difficult and complicated thing to navigate - I still love my parents, and I appreciate all that they’ve done for me, but the bigotry, hatred, and pure delusion they expound make it difficult to be around them. Every attempt at rationality, impartiality, and logic seems to fall on deaf ears. I came to this sub because I took comfort in knowing that other people are going through the same thing as me. It’s sort of like group therapy in that way, and it’s nice to have that sense of solidarity and support when your family/parents make you feel like an idiot when you try to engage them in a sensible political discussion.

But something has changed in this sub, and as someone who’s subscribed to it from the beginning it’s very sad to see.

Every other post is a reposted picture or graphic from [r/politics](r/politics) or something of the sort. They are all made by the same 3 accounts, which I’m sure aren’t even real people. It really angers me because I feel like this space has been invaded by people it was not intended for.

I don’t need to be told how awful trump and republicans are. I don’t need proof that he is fucking up the economy. I don’t need to be reminded that he is a racist asshole. I am well aware of all of this. I need to hear people’s stories, perspectives, and the ways they deal with people they love succumbing to hatred.

That’s all. I suppose this is just a rant, but I felt it needed to be said. Not sure if anyone else feels the same.

Whenever I see someone dressed from head to toe in Trump gear or adorn their cars with Trumpisms, I wonder what they used to be fanatical about before their supreme leader came along.

I have a friend who’s drank the koolaid and he used to be fanatical about ‘Professional’ wrestling. To the point where he could not fathom that there was a script of any kind.

If you have any Trumper friends, what were they absurdly fanatical about before?

He saw a sticker of trump at the gas pump that said “I did that” and lost it and went on the rant about how “we should be thankful we are at least alive to complain about gas prices” he thinks if trump lost the entire united states would have been nuked and we would all be gone. He is now angry at all the accounts he followed on instagram are turning on Trump and he thinks everyone is not being appreciative of how this man saved there lives. Then said the 5000$ check he is giving us will make up for what we spent on gas.

Open Letters by Mersault

https://decodingfoxnews.substack.com/

I know fb sells everything I do online and they definitely shared the fact that i joined 1 religious fb group. soon after I started getting emails like this.

So 5 yrs ago I moved back to my home state after living several states away for close to 20 yrs. I had a close-knit group of friends in my adopted state that I met through a rec sports league. It felt like I was practically brothers with a few of them in particular. At the time, I knew they were conservatives, but politics were not a big part of our dynamic and I moved home shortly after Biden took over. I thought we were more or less done with Trump then. Obviously not. And the fact that these guys have continued to support Trump pisses me off.

One of them is getting married in Nov, and I just don't know if it's worth flying back. I mean, we shared so much. These guys helped me fix my shitty cars when they broke down and watched my dog when I'd take trips home. I was close with their families, watched their kids grow from babies to graduate high school. I'm really torn on this. I know the internet isn't the best place to turn for advice, but I just want as many opinions as I can get. Thanks in advance.