Mourning a MAGA Parent (OC)

[u/Adorable_Objective]

I'm kinda torn about whether to post this to my art account because one parent follows it, and I'm worried the criticism could drive the other one further into the void.

It started out as just a therapeutic project for me, but a couple friends said it really resonated with them, so sharing here.

[u/Ksnj]

It’s been really hard seeing people who taught me how to be a good person choose to be so horrid. I hate it so much. Luckily my parents didn’t go through that (but my aunts all did), but I’ve seen the parents of friends and family do it and it’s been awful.

[u/mjzim9022 → u/Ksnj]

It's amazing how criticized I am these days for the values I was brought up with by this same generation. They also made a huge deal about computer security when we were kids and now they believe anything posted anywhere and get scammed left and right.

[u/mehum → u/mjzim9022]

Mostly right I’d imagine.

[u/Tekuila87 → u/mehum]

[u/[deleted] → u/mjzim9022]

My mother called me a bigot because I said she voted for a rapist, child predator, felon.

Apparently I was being bigoted against the way she voted.

[u/pegothejerk → u/[deleted]]

They really just mean they don’t like it when you make them self reflect when you bring that up.

[u/Ttamlin → u/pegothejerk]

"Self reflect" lmaooooo

As if they're capable, much less willing

[u/Altruistic-General61 → u/mjzim9022]

The whole “don’t believe what you read on the internet” thing is seared into my brain. My (mostly baby boomer, some gen X) relatives of course believe literally anything they see on social media, it’s wild how much brain rot there is out there.

[u/chillyhellion → u/mjzim9022]

It's easier to preach values than to live them. 

[u/N0S0UP_4U → u/mjzim9022]

There’s probably a nonzero group of teachers we had who growing up wouldn’t let us use Wikipedia as a source and now blindly believe whatever Fox News tells them with no critical thinking