This is the infuriating Chinese Plague Mobius Strip Infinite 'discussion', often devolving into shouting matches, I being the LONE conservative have been having against my six (older) siblings, specifically regarding the forever-delayed funeral of our mother (deceased 12/17 - now we're shooting for July 31 here in Nebraska to accommodate out of state extended family, one sister who's retired to Panama, etc). Are we going to be 'safely vaccinated' or will we all need to be wearing Virtue Signalling HAZMAT suits? A conservative (and equally exasperated) cousin I routinely communicate with asked if he'll be physically BARRED from the ceremony if he should refuse to undergo vaccination? (YOU don't take this virus that killed mom & dad [debatable as they were instantly cremated] seriously! "I'm not going to take your bait [insert Screeching Karen Sibling here]".....and on and on).
Talk about ISOLATION!!! In this grieving process, in order to maintain 'peace' among my battalion-strength family, it is - and always has been - incumbent upon ME, The Conservative, to keep MY politics to myself....while being assailed from all sides day in/day out. BULLIES indeed. Thank Gawd for TOLERANCE, eh? (Diva was great BTW)
Fren That's rough, luckily me an my siblings are all Conservatives, however, one of them bore a liberal daughter, but we luckily do not engage in politics talk, condolences on the loss of your Mom, curious where she stood on the politics plane?
Sorry for the WHINE (truly). BOTH parents were lifelong but, with the advent of Trump (candidacy onto presidency and his CONSTANT VILIFICATION by the Goebbels Propaganda Machine) increasingly conservative. They born in '33 and 35 respectively and were absolutely APPALLED at the treatment Trump and by direct association his SUPPORTERS received - they thought the Reagan Is A Senile Buffoon argument was extremely disrespectful, the GWB (whose true colors have come out in spades) years were horrendous but then along came Trump and a whole new "paradigm" of HIDEOUS.
In their 87 and 85 years, having come through the dark years of the depression then WW 2, dad in the Korean War, etc, I would often ask how 'current day' culture/politics/media in general compared and the word 'hysteria' kept being mentioned. They hated to see not just the national (and global) disintegration of ETHICS, a christian bearing, the nuclear family, et al, but the STARK divisions within our sprawling FAMILY: I as caregiver (and now 'curator of the museum'/estate representative) this past decade and the parents versus THE HIVE MIND. The siblings are so RIGHTEOUS in their indignation against (insert this week's completely manufactured crisis) that even my elderly parents weren't immune to their RANTS and they felt physically threatened at times (one brother in particular SCREAMING at both parents and storming off).
Do they all read from the same Malignant Playbook or something? Conservatives: Present FACTS. Liberal/Progressives: Simply start SCREAMING until we relent. Rinse. Repeat.
No apologies necessary, it's too much to bear for anyone. Who among us can tolerate the constant leftist screaming without a fact? Sorry that even your parents had to be subjected to their rantings, and yes they do all read from the same playbook
This is the infuriating Chinese Plague Mobius Strip Infinite 'discussion', often devolving into shouting matches, I being the LONE conservative have been having against my six (older) siblings, specifically regarding the forever-delayed funeral of our mother (deceased 12/17 - now we're shooting for July 31 here in Nebraska to accommodate out of state extended family, one sister who's retired to Panama, etc). Are we going to be 'safely vaccinated' or will we all need to be wearing Virtue Signalling HAZMAT suits? A conservative (and equally exasperated) cousin I routinely communicate with asked if he'll be physically BARRED from the ceremony if he should refuse to undergo vaccination? (YOU don't take this virus that killed mom & dad [debatable as they were instantly cremated] seriously! "I'm not going to take your bait [insert Screeching Karen Sibling here]".....and on and on).
Talk about ISOLATION!!! In this grieving process, in order to maintain 'peace' among my battalion-strength family, it is - and always has been - incumbent upon ME, The Conservative, to keep MY politics to myself....while being assailed from all sides day in/day out. BULLIES indeed. Thank Gawd for TOLERANCE, eh? (Diva was great BTW)
Fren That's rough, luckily me an my siblings are all Conservatives, however, one of them bore a liberal daughter, but we luckily do not engage in politics talk, condolences on the loss of your Mom, curious where she stood on the politics plane?
Sorry for the WHINE (truly). BOTH parents were lifelong but, with the advent of Trump (candidacy onto presidency and his CONSTANT VILIFICATION by the Goebbels Propaganda Machine) increasingly conservative. They born in '33 and 35 respectively and were absolutely APPALLED at the treatment Trump and by direct association his SUPPORTERS received - they thought the Reagan Is A Senile Buffoon argument was extremely disrespectful, the GWB (whose true colors have come out in spades) years were horrendous but then along came Trump and a whole new "paradigm" of HIDEOUS.
In their 87 and 85 years, having come through the dark years of the depression then WW 2, dad in the Korean War, etc, I would often ask how 'current day' culture/politics/media in general compared and the word 'hysteria' kept being mentioned. They hated to see not just the national (and global) disintegration of ETHICS, a christian bearing, the nuclear family, et al, but the STARK divisions within our sprawling FAMILY: I as caregiver (and now 'curator of the museum'/estate representative) this past decade and the parents versus THE HIVE MIND. The siblings are so RIGHTEOUS in their indignation against (insert this week's completely manufactured crisis) that even my elderly parents weren't immune to their RANTS and they felt physically threatened at times (one brother in particular SCREAMING at both parents and storming off).
Do they all read from the same Malignant Playbook or something? Conservatives: Present FACTS. Liberal/Progressives: Simply start SCREAMING until we relent. Rinse. Repeat.
No apologies necessary, it's too much to bear for anyone. Who among us can tolerate the constant leftist screaming without a fact? Sorry that even your parents had to be subjected to their rantings, and yes they do all read from the same playbook