Current Events > Redditor will never speak to parents again if they vote for Trump

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Yea probably

Good for her.

As a trans woman, I would absolutely refuse to speak to my parents if they voted for Trump.

Im on board with this

Cutting off your family over people that didn't care for you is sad.
But Trump is a special case so they have the right to cut any connections with toxicities.

Biology means nothing, your family is who you choose it to be. If someone is shitty to you or someone you care about, you are under no obligation to consider them family.

You don't owe your family anything

I would put them in a home

I would say yes but my family pretty much never talks about politics

Did it more or less

Kai_Laguna posted...

Biology means nothing, your family is who you choose it to be. If someone is shitty to you or someone you care about, you are under no obligation to consider them family.

Completely agree. I didnt speak to my parents for years before they died. It was the right decision.

I don't really like to talk to my dad anymore because he always brings up politics after Trump came about. It hurts to lose respect for your father as you watch him gradually pull himself away from reality and join the cult.

Good. More people need to step up to friends and family.

I was at the dog park and a lady tried playing 'this is just politics, we all have opinions card' and I flat out told her no, that's horse shit. Being a racist fuck isn't 'just politics' or a matter of opinion.

I'm firmly of the idea that we should all talk politics, because it shows what our values truly are.

I can see it. How do I talk to my father and sister after they elect a guy who's going to take my health insurance away knowing I'm a type one diabetic?

My parents live in California. I deeply don't give a shit who they are voting for.

Probably still talk to them. I know for certain my mom will be voting down ballot Dems, because she's just about as liberal as I am. I don't know what my Dad will be doing, either voting Trump or not voting at all like he's done in nearly every election except one in the 90's. But I'm not going to stop talking to him regardless, because I'd rather see my family members get out of the cult someday and I'm not giving up on them.

My entire family, and in-laws, are staunchly red no matter who is running.

They know better than to bring up politics around me.

BlackScythe0 posted...

I don't really like to talk to my dad anymore because he always brings up politics after Trump came about. It hurts to lose respect for your father as you watch him gradually pull himself away from reality and join the cult.

The last time I saw my father I told him in no uncertain terms that politics and the discussion thereof is completely off the table from now on.

He's fallen hard down the rabbit hole of Trumpism, and it's fucking depressing. These are people I looked up to, who I looked to as an example of the person I should be.

It's hard to respect your family when they willingly deny objective reality slapping them in the face with how terrible that fucking criminal traitor really is.

Thats a fun read.

OP on Reddit said they cut their family off in 2017 and havent talked to them since. Maybe they talked to their parents a few days ago and then made the topic?

Yeesh I would never do that

Yeah it's borderline psychopath behavior imo. I live in a different state. But I call and talk to my parents and brother every day. To never talk to them again because of who they voted for is insane to me

What's borderline psychopathic (or worse) is to blithely ignore that votes for fascists lead to fascism, and if one expects to be on the receiving end of fascist oppression, it is asinine to forgive family members for voting for your own destruction.

I'd like to applaud her, but ultimately, I think it's really fucking stupid and entitled and will only make the problems in this country worse.

On the one hand, the woman is objectively right that they're voting for a neofascist monster. On the other hand, it's very likely not malicious intent, but ignorance, perhaps willful even, on the parents' part. My dad and stepmom have been hardcore right-wingers all my life, and I know they're simply victims of a very powerful propaganda machine, not bad people. The malicious intent Trumpers are definitely the minority; the ignorant dipshits are the majority.

Democracy is already dead if we can't even speak to each other.

What state are they in? If it is a swing state yeah their votes matter. If they are in New York or Califronia these seems like overkill votes for Trump in deep blue states dont matter as much.

_Blur_ posted...

I'd like to applaud her, but ultimately, I think it's really fucking stupid and entitled and will only make the problems in this country worse.

On the one hand, the woman is objectively right that they're voting for a neofascist monster. On the other hand, it's very likely not malicious intent, but ignorance, perhaps willful even, on the parents' part. My dad and stepmom have been hardcore right-wingers all my life, and I know they're simply victims of a very powerful propaganda machine, not bad people. The malicious intent Trumpers are definitely the minority; the ignorant dipshits are the majority.

Democracy is already dead if we can't even speak to each other.

Democracy is dead when people vote out of ignorance. Democracy simply doesnt work properly if voting is not an informed decision.

Granted, there isnt a better alternative, but the concept of democracy and the reality of it are miles apart.

Noname13 posted...

Yeah it's borderline psychopath behavior imo. I live in a different state. But I call and talk to my parents and brother every day. To never talk to them again because of who they voted for is insane to me

When "who they voted for" is a guy who wants to continue eroding human rights in this country and isn't exactly quiet about wanting to imprison and/or kill immigrants and trans people, it's not "psychopathic" to cut them off for supporting him. Just because they're your parents doesn't mean they can't also be terrible, toxic human beings with bad morals.

My grandmother was all-in for Trump in 2016. I wasn't really surprised... she has always been conservative. I just tried to ignore it. Avoided politics when I could. Got through it.

By 2020, her support for Trump had turned into worship. She spent every waking moment going on and on about what a great man he is and how he's saving our country. It reached a point where I told her I'd stop visiting or taking her calls if that's all she wants to talk about. She at least made and effort... that is until he lost.

She went waaaaay off the conspiracy deep end. Posting all kinds of vile shit on facebook. On January 6th she was cheering for the rioters. Trump being reinstated became her sole obsession. I told her that I can no longer be a part of her life, but she didn't care at all. I haven't spoken to her since.

My brother recently informed me that she has colon cancer. It has spread to her lungs. She's in her 80s. Realistically, this is probably it for her. I logged onto Facebook for the first time in years just to maybe send her a message. The first post on her Facebook was about Biden being a pedophile. I logged out without sending anything. I probably never will.

TMOG posted...

When "who they voted for" is a guy who wants to continue eroding human rights in this country and isn't exactly quiet about wanting to imprison and/or kill immigrants and trans people, it's not "psychopathic" to cut them off for supporting him. Just because they're your parents doesn't mean they can't also be terrible, toxic human beings with bad morals.

Mainly it's just privilege, you can assume people who would hold their nose and keep the same relationship with family are going to be largely unaffected by the results of the election and as such can afford to "agree to disagree"

Did it to one of my parents who is a deranged qanon weirdo now.

The other one is still a conservative but they gave up on the republican party after Jan 6

Sorry you lost your grandmother to that cult .

badass

Absolutely 100%, I would disown any family that joined the cult. Luckily I won't ever have this problem but I do feel for those people who do.

Noname13 posted...

Yeah it's borderline psychopath behavior imo. I live in a different state. But I call and talk to my parents and brother every day. To never talk to them again because of who they voted for is insane to me

Nah, when someone votes for someone who stands for the antithesis of what somebody else believes, it isn't unreasonable for the disaffected party to want nothing to do with those people anymore. Blood relation be damned.

Though willingly fighting and dying in the name of my beliefs thus permanently and irrevocably removing my ability to communicate with my family is perfectly sane and logical to me.

Her decision.

Idk why people feel the need to announce to reddit for validation tho

Noname13 posted...

Yeah it's borderline psychopath behavior imo. I live in a different state. But I call and talk to my parents and brother every day. To never talk to them again because of who they voted for is insane to me

I can only see a post like this coming from a Trump supporter. They always pretend to be good and principled while advocating for the most awful and downright evil things they can.

It's not something I could see myself ever doing given the relationship I have with my parents despite them being MAGAs... but I do not look down upon others who do. I don't know their situation and I'm not going to pass some blanket judgement that you should ALWAYS offer yourself to family because that has potential to become incredibly toxic.

CoyoteTheGreat posted... My parents live in California. I deeply don't give a shit who they are voting for.

Also kind of this. I'm in Illinois... doesn't matter TOO much that they're MAGA, it's going blue with or without them.

BlackScythe0 posted...

I can only see a post like this coming from a Trump supporter. They always pretend to be good and principled while advocating for the most awful and downright evil things they can.

I voted for Bernie in 2016 and voted for Biden in 2020. But my family is my family and I'm not cutting them off over politics. Obviously, if they started becoming some deranged conservative weirdos then yeah I would have to. But as a Mexican American. My entire family is based in old school religious people

Noname13 posted...

I voted for Bernie in 2016 and voted for Biden in 2020. But my family is my family and I'm not cutting them off over politics. Obviously, if they started becoming some deranged conservative weirdos then yeah I would have to. But as a Mexican American. My entire family is based in old school religious people

Yea I get that. Mosr people who have a decent relationship with their parents csn get that. Why would you let some 80 year old who doesn't know you exist get in between you and the people who brought you into this world is beyond me. That goes both ways however

Noname13 posted...

Yeah it's borderline psychopath behavior imo. I live in a different state. But I call and talk to my parents and brother every day. To never talk to them again because of who they voted for is insane to me

It's more insane to judge other people's family dynamics based off of your own. You don't know shit about them but your calling it psychopath behavior?

The inability to make peace with your own family is like failing the tutorial stage.

Toonstrack posted...

Yea I get that. Mosr people who have a decent relationship with their parents csn get that. Why would you let some 80 year old who doesn't know you exist get in between you and the people who brought you into this world is beyond me. That goes both ways however

It's about what they represent and the power they can wield to influence the world as you would like to see it molded.

The people are irrelevant. Their beliefs and what they (and their backers/benefactors) desire to do with their power is what matters. When the people closest to you are so far gone down a rabbit hole that they are willing to collapse the tunnels of said rabbit hole down on not only themselves, but on you and everyone and everything you care about, it isn't unreasonable to want to just cut them out when they vote for the candidate promising to do that

Toonstrack posted...

Yea I get that. Mosr people who have a decent relationship with their parents csn get that. Why would you let some 80 year old who doesn't know you exist get in between you and the people who brought you into this world is beyond me. That goes both ways however

You are acting like it's not their support of evil which is the problem.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

You are acting like it's not their support of evil which is the problem.

Its a problem, but is it a problem solved by cutting them out of your life is the question

Imagine letting a dbag like trump break up your family. You're just giving him what he wants.

If Trump loses, no harm done.

SauI_Goodman posted...

Imagine letting a dbag like trump break up your family. You're just giving him what he wants.

Any family breakups should be blamed on the MAGAt side of the split. Clinging to the evil of Trumpism when your own family is trying to talk you out of it really is despicable.