I have 2 GOP parents, one that voted Trump originally and one that did not. Over the last 9 years, I have watched them both travel down the MAGA pipeline to become visibly fascist. The parents who taught me racism was wrong and to have empathy for others, have become openly hostile about immigrants, Muslims, and even parrot the Nazi “great replacement” theory.

Part and parcel with this, they refuse to have any discussions about the facts – like immigrants not stealing and eating people’s pets. They won’t hear it, they won’t even engage in the conversation…they just get angry and loud the second they hear anything that doesn’t fit into the Fox News narrative. Can you relate? How are you dealing with it in your relationships with your parents?

    • Aneb@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      This and not this at the same time.

      Definitely don’t go so far that you only use drugs and alcohol to cope. Speaking from experience the pain and anxiety just grows and festers unfortunately. I took up weed as a vice to keep these exact thoughts from plaguing my existence: “How could the people who taught me empathy and love believe that CEOs are the minority; and victims of the greedy poor while they’re sitting on stacks of money.”

      It doesn’t make sense how their logic got so twisted… but then it does.

      Like my parents would confiscate my phone and my laptop and comb through my texts and search history to dig for proof I was sinning behind their backs (Key logger gang wya?) ≈ Similarly, the Patriot Act passed 2 years after I was born it robbed individuals of their freedom to online privacy.

      Seems like my parents were actually the deep state all along (and my dependence on weed is justified imo)

      My parents are happy I got a divorce from my husband because we are two men and their bible says thats a sin (we had other problems like he cheated on me)