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In reply to the discussion: Just found out my relatives voted for Trump [View all]politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)Trust me you won't be able to point them in the right direction without being confrontational.
I ran into this problem right after the election when my son's GOP in-laws went on Facebook and congratulated the new president, after 8 years of Obama bashing, both Barack and Michelle. I called Trump out for his constant lying about things that were easily provable, and his pride in his know-nothingness since the campaigning began and unwillingness to learn that which he didn't know, rather than trying to bluff his way through everything or his belittling of other candidates with the name calling promoting a sense of political discourse I had never seen in the forty plus years I've been engaged in politics. And they all turned on me.
I have been to many activities with these people over many years and everything has always been cordial since I purposely avoided their GOP leanings. But when you say something challenging Mr. MAGA they all stick together. It's hard not judging their hypocrisy since they are all Christians, as am I, demand more of their children than they do of their president, but if you want to have a relationship with them for the sake of your adult children, (and I do) you just can't go near the politics.
So don't think you can point them in the right direction without being confrontational. The man said that he could shoot someone in public in front of a crowd and his crowd will have his back and they will. These people think that their America has been stolen from them by minorities and foreigners and bad trade deals, and if they aren't at the place where they want to be in life, it's through no fault of their own, and Trump reinforces that ideology.