To my family who chose Trump over me: Was it worth it? (CNN article)

[mtngirl47]

18. It's heartbreaking what this has done to families and friends.

I stopped going on facebook and have spent the last 5 years tiptoeing around the subject of Trump with my family. I thought that I could just talk about kids and weather and business and not bring up all the horrible things that I saw every day in the Trump administration.

But now that Biden/Harris have prevailed I find myself wanting them disavow their support for Trump/Trumpism. It's never going to happen.

After the joyful day on Saturday--my mother called on Sunday evening (a weird time for her) and she blathered on for a full hour about inane subjects---never once saying a word about the election. She knows that I worked through the early voting and up until the last voter at our precinct, but never once did she congratulate me or acknowledge my hard work. This is stark because some long-time customers of mine made a point of driving to my business to have a small celebration on Saturday. Customers, acquaintances, even a neighbor who had Trump signs in their yard contacted me, but my own mother (a woman who is at church every time the doors are open) would not, could not say a word.

It's in my mind all the time--how can my parents, my brothers and sister, cousins and aunts & uncles all believe and support this horrible man? Why do they believe the lies? Why won't they believe the truth about him? Why do they think that they are the patriots and I am a socialist?

My adult children want me to break off the relationships. Just writing that brings tears to my eyes.

At least there is lots of weather to talk about.