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manicraven

(901 posts)
7. I've been in tears, too...
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 02:23 PM
Oct 2016

Out of sheer frustration over this entire rotten experience, including what it's doing to my own family. My brother has been regrettably backing Trump, which has caused a rift in our family. My poor mom, in her 70s, was on the phone with him yesterday doing battle. She did awesome, pointing out the idiocy of his claims, but was extremely upset and called me following a nasty, nasty experience with him. He has become suspicious, belligerent, selfish, and mean-spirited, just like Trump and his followers. Thinks all of the women who came forward are liars, pointing out that he doesn't believe the woman on the plane because she'd stated that if Trump had just kept to her upper body she might not have been upset (or something like that); therefore, they're all liars. Thinks the media is unfair, etc., and is positive his taxes will go sky high if Clinton is elected. Mom, though, is very engaged in this election and went toe-to-toe with him and by the end of the call, my brother had moved from supporting Trump to not planning to vote, which he snarled at her as if Mom had taken away his favorite toy. She was rattled and upset by his lack of facts and open hostility towards Hillary Clinton and President Obama and even towards people who struggle financially, and so on.

Anyway, like many, I feel exhausted and upset with this entire election and what it's doing to our country and our families and even me personally. I need my life back and we all need to heal after what Trump and the GOP have done to us.

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