To be more specific, my parents raised my siblings and me to “respect” them, saying "yes sir, and “no ma’am” to everything they said. Spankings, all of that. Typical super conservative evangelical parents. Before I learned better, I was that way too. I went to college and since then have embraced the left more and more.
They’ll say things now and then that are really distasteful politically. Today I made an Instagram post about DeSantis lying about liberal states allowing post-birth abortions and I got several family members railing against me. I’m tired of staying quiet when this happens. I think that, because how my parents raised me, I’m afraid to speak my mind to older family members. Fuck that though.
Has anyone else had this experience? I wonder if therapy would help. I just don’t know how to explain it.
I just don’t talk about it
I know it’s not really them anymore. A decade+ of Fox News everywhere they hang out and others they hang out with constantly reinforcing them, I know it’s just a level of brainwashing we aren’t gonna fix
Luckily we can still talk about normal shit because they’re not so far gone that being a conservative nut job isn’t their identity.
My family is slowly losing that last part, and it’s frankly really fucking scary.