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slightlv

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10. A lot of us come from families of differing political persuasions.
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 07:53 PM
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It doesn't change anything about Renee. It does give background, perhaps, on why she chose the path she did. I marched and protested in the 60's and 70's. My family was mixed politics, although we had none who were passionate cons. They were mostly one item believers, usually the 2nd amendment mistranslation. My great-grandfather and I were the politically passionate ones in the family, and we'd have made a heady duo if he hadn't died before I was of sentient age. But my father came from the old time Republicans, and the NRA had their hooks in him big time. I was even a member as a kid... and took part in all their sharpshooter events at the cop shops. Even one 1st place one year. Still... look at how *I* turned out!

IMO, if they truly find out which members were con in Renee's family, knowing Maga the way we do, I think they'd be more of a target for raising what maga would see as a traitor. Just my opinion, based on my own experience. BTW, older republicans are different than today's con's. Most of them are now dead, like my Dad. My Dad was a big believer in FDR, in the New Deal, but as much as he differed with Kennedy on politics, he really admired him and how he handled the Bay of Pigs. My Dad, a decorated WWII Medic, is probably turning over in his grave at what has become of the republican party. I honestly think he'd be changing party affiliations if he were alive today. And I think he'd be as enraged with feelings of wanting to do something drastic to change things as I feel right now. He knew the dangers the Nazi's posed and hated them with all his might. The war was something that never left him, his whole life. All I ever heard him say was that he'd "seen too much" to not feel that way.

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