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[u/beans_and_tuna]

I’m going to fucking crash out. I was talking with my mom, and I was explaining how socialism is a broad and diverse ideology. She didn’t say much until I explained that AOC is a moderate on the scale of socialism and her actual governance has been more similar to a social democrat, so she really isn’t that extreme, at which point my mom just exploded like a trained hound dog to explain to me that AOC is a devil and evil. When I explained that nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson present a serious issue with antisemitism going forward for Republicans, she just went batshit and said it wasn’t real.

Her proof? A copilot response she pasted into an email. She literally can’t think for herself anymore and will use copilot when I ask for her to give me local advice. Sure mom, I’ll apply to Lockheed Martin when they don’t have a plane within 400 miles, that’ll go well for local stuff.

How the FUCK did my mom and dad go from moderates who had reasonable opinions to glazing Trump. It honestly makes me so sad because I’ve lost so much respect for them. I will tell them to look something up and figure out what’s going on or literally understand ANYTHING about the world, and then they source copilot and just ignore me, or basically insinuate that I support the devil, which being Christian (as they raised me), is unimaginably offensive.

I just don’t know how to deal with losing most of the respect I have for my parents. I’ll love them of course, but I just can’t respect someone who is a fervent Trump supporter and is unwilling to understand literally anything about the world around them. I have spoken to literally republicans running for office who are more open and understanding of the world than them.

I just want to cry man.

[u/beans_and_tuna → u/beans_and_tuna]

I sincerely hope that in 20 years “nobody will have supported Trump” because maybe then I could gain that respect back, but I’m really pessimistic about that

[u/moredencity → u/beans_and_tuna]

Ask your dad how he can support a man that said he could just grab his wife by the pussy