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In reply to the discussion: Just had a terrible confrontation w/ a friend: Damn Fox "news" to hell! [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)As long as they can imagine liberals and Democrats are monstrous anonymous boogie men, they can come up with the most insane impressions. But when you say, "I-- the one you have lunch with and trust with your confidences-- am a liberal," they might actually stop and think.
I don't know. I wonder if they do. I wonder if they ever think, "Why am I choosing this Trump guy over actual friends?"
I have a young cousin whose parents (they are my actual cousins-- she's "once-removed" I guess) are furious Trumpers. They used to be kind of rightwing but okay, you know, against gay marriage in principle but polite to the gay couple next door. Since 2015, though, they've become (in tandem) really loud and angry and utterly devoted to Trump. They're not into the more arcane conspiracy theories, but they're into blaming Democrats for everything including the virus.
My young cousin is - amazing considering who raised her-- liberal and tolerant. The last time she was home, her parents went on a rant about how it was the Soros-gay conspiracy that brought the virus over (the trifecta-- antisemitic homophobic anti-science) to destroy Trump's presidency.
She hasn't gone back. She's a mild person and doesn't want to make a big scene over it, but she's staying away. And I thought, "Her parents chose Trump over their own daughter."
I don't know how those people are going to come back into the normal range. They're too far gone.