Anonymous OP 4d

i don’t understand i feel like i never realized they were like this but they say they haven’t changed and they don’t think they’re racist but to me it feels like ever since college i’ve just realized that their beliefs and values are just very different from mine and i listen to their crazy ass takes and all i can do is just look at them😐 and you would literally NEVER know from talking to them from an outside perspective like they seem so normal??? but then we talk and they’re saying crazy shit

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Anonymous OP 4d

saying crazy shit about muslim people and the hispanic people and the black community and transgender people and gay people and everything. like most of the time it’s just wildly ignorant things and assumptions regarding other cultures but other times they just say straight up crazy shit and go on rants it makes me feel i’ve been teetering on the edge of i don’t even know what for years and years

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Anonymous OP 4d

feelings are confusing. i genuinely love them so much and people are gonna call me a bad person for that. maybe i am. i’m far from perfect. my parents are FAR from perfect. and sometimes i like to think that all 50+ old people are just like this? but that’s not true i’ve seen its not true ive seen old people that are chill as fuck. i wish they would just keep out of everything political. i wish they would just be apolitical and have no opinions on anything even remotely controversial

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Anonymous #1 4d

they’re maga. they are completely brainwashed by all the extreme red wing bs and anything that comes out of trumps mouth. they genuinely don’t believe anything bad about him no matter how much proof you provide to them. they call it fake news orchestrated by the left to make him look bad and they admire “how strong he is for continuing to fight for the american people despite the fact that the whole world is against him”. they think he’s a saint.

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Anonymous #1 4d

i don’t understand because to me it seems so clear what is good and what is bad. i mean obv there’s something things that are hard to decide. that’s just regular human moral compass stuff. but sometimes it seems like we have complete opposite definitions of good and bad. i don’t understand why everything is so twisted up these days. i understand not everything is black and white but some things ARE black and white…

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Anonymous OP 4d

They’re already too deep into his rhetoric. It will only take his decisions to affect them directly for them to feel some type of way…. And that’s if they actually recognize things cause that’s are some people that will continue to have his back even if he admitted on tv to be pedo to this day

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Anonymous #1 4d

do you think i’m a bad person for continuing my relationship with them like normal? even when most of their ideals go directly against mine? i feel like some sort of sell out. you can be honest. you won’t hurt my feelings

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Anonymous OP 4d

Nah. They’re your parents, if they’re doing their duty as parents and have been good to you, then separate their beliefs from their duties. Clearly they didn’t feed their hate onto you, so either they weren’t always like this and swallowed up all the bullshit or you just never noticed.

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Anonymous #1 4d

i mean we never really talked politics until the 2016 election. and for a year or so i ate up what they said bc I trusted their words like gospel. but then i started to realize that maybe my parents can be wrong sometimes. and now i realize that they are wrong a lot…and for a while i tried rationalize it with myself in any way. but then around 2020 i was just like….damn my parents are lowkey the ops…like the ops have been living with me the whole time

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Anonymous #1 4d

and i think if it ever came down to it and i saw them say some crazy shit to someone in public i would have to put my foot down. i’ve thought about it before. because besides voting (which is import i realize), the most they’re doing is just being their own echo chamber and sharing their opinions in private. but i don’t think i could stay on their side if i actually saw them say something crazy in public. which i don’t think they would, they are very civilized with everyone they meet and

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Anonymous OP 4d

the most they might do is say something a little ignorant with good intention. but just like…cringe level ignorant. not anything malicious. they’re not malicious people. its so confusing. i’ve never seen them be malicious to anyone in my life but they’re just crazy ignorant in private.

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Anonymous OP 4d

Yea…sometimes good people fall for the bullshit. Perhaps your parents were republican all along and the thing is maga is the extremist version of the Republican Party. They fell for the show. They have a president who pretends to be tough and they think he is yet we all can see he can’t take being bad mouthed to being made fun of, being outsmarted (which is not that difficult to do)…

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