There’s general politics like “where should we spend this money and what should be laws”, and then there’s the radical politics of treason and loss of humanity. If she is a republican, you can work around that. If she’s MAGA, you have to draw the line at violating human rights.
Yeah it’s not really true anymore, at least in developed countries, but it should be true. People would be a whole lot happier if they got along with and trusted their family.
I can’t even tell my mom what’s going on in my life because every time a conversation gets “too political,” she shuts it down, or if she can’t do that, she leaves.
I would love to keep her in the loop, but when almost every aspect of my life exists as it does because of political forces, that doesn’t leave much I can say to her. If she loves me enough to want me in her life, she can suck up her political apathy and listen. But she won’t, and you know what they say - you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
Yeah it’s on her too, but I think if your life hinges too much on political outcomes, then you are going to lead a very unhappy life. I prefer to keep my happiness in my own hands as much as possible.
I think it’s more important to get along with the people I talk to and interact with every day, than to go to bat for my political team. You should too.
Your family should mean more to you than politics.
There’s general politics like “where should we spend this money and what should be laws”, and then there’s the radical politics of treason and loss of humanity. If she is a republican, you can work around that. If she’s MAGA, you have to draw the line at violating human rights.
How would you define MAGA? How do you know if someone is MAGA?
No. “Blood is thicker than water” is utter BS.
Yeah it’s not really true anymore, at least in developed countries, but it should be true. People would be a whole lot happier if they got along with and trusted their family.
the way i see it, nobody in the world really gives a damn about you apart from your family in usual scenarios
I can’t even tell my mom what’s going on in my life because every time a conversation gets “too political,” she shuts it down, or if she can’t do that, she leaves.
I would love to keep her in the loop, but when almost every aspect of my life exists as it does because of political forces, that doesn’t leave much I can say to her. If she loves me enough to want me in her life, she can suck up her political apathy and listen. But she won’t, and you know what they say - you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
Yeah it’s on her too, but I think if your life hinges too much on political outcomes, then you are going to lead a very unhappy life. I prefer to keep my happiness in my own hands as much as possible.
Yeah, like have they even tried not being a person with atttributed vilfiied by the right?!?!1?2!
You sound like the kind of person who would blame 80’s gay men for getting aids.
MAGAs are awful people, their defenders are no better.
I think it’s more important to get along with the people I talk to and interact with every day, than to go to bat for my political team. You should too.
Tell that to my folks who constantly cheerlead for Trump
I agree, you know where is the only place I see political shit all over again? Lemmy and Reddit lol. (In non political communities ofc).
Oh, and US politics ofc.