Learned Dad voted for Trump

[Anonymous]

Some posters are suggesting your Dad was manipulated or angry or whatever, but I think it’s just easier to accept the reality - this is who your Dad is. And it’s ok to be sad and disappointed about that.

You don’t have to cut him off, but you also don’t have to insulate him from the harm this administration is bringing to you and your family. It’s well understood that Trump voters don’t “get it” until it happens to them or someone they love. So make sure he “gets it”. If he feels guilty, well, tough, he did it, he should feel guilty. And if it just so happens he needs a kind of help that a government used to provide, well, you’re hard up these days and you wish you could but you can’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself. We have friends who voted for Trump and we agree to disagree. We rarely talk politics and regret it when we do.

This. Op, you are now in the minority and need to get over this. A lot of reasonable republicans, moderates, conservatives, all not MAGA, decided to vote for Trump simply because he was more fiscally responsible and pledged to get rid of DC bureaucracy and the imperial president and the debt -- which Democrats do not. that is al. To cry "OMG he voted for Trump" shows political unsophistication.

OP is absolutely not in the minority. I cannot believe how many people are normalizing this.

Normalizing what? A candidate who was democratically elected by receiving the most votes?

Well yeah because those votes represent not a political divide but a moral/ethical divide.

A majority of voters cast their votes for values I personally can't cotton to. Whether each one believed in and wanted what's going on to happen or whether they suffer from
#TrumpDelusionSyndrome
and thought he was what they wanted hime to be, not what he kept showing he was...frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

[Anonymous]

The two old dads I know they voted for trump have early dementia. They got duped. Both regret it, by the way. But yeah I think it’s a sign of mental confusion.

[Anonymous]

Love Trump! The opening notes of the YMCA gladden my heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself. We have friends who voted for Trump and we agree to disagree. We rarely talk politics and regret it when we do.

This. Op, you are now in the minority and need to get over this. A lot of reasonable republicans, moderates, conservatives, all not MAGA, decided to vote for Trump simply because he was more fiscally responsible and pledged to get rid of DC bureaucracy and the imperial president and the debt -- which Democrats do not. that is al. To cry "OMG he voted for Trump" shows political unsophistication.

OP is absolutely not in the minority. I cannot believe how many people are normalizing this.

Normalizing what? A candidate who was democratically elected by receiving the most votes?

That’s one way to describe Trump. Some other ways that come to mind: compulsive liar, corrupt, felon, sexual abuser, ignoramos, bully, malignant narcissist, elderly, declining, manipulated by flattery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in DC and my parents live in Texas where I grew up. I've always known we didn't see eye to eye politically and we generally don't discuss politics to stay out of the fray. I knew my dad didn't vote for Hillary or Trump in 2016 and haven't really asked him his votes since. But I just learned he voted for Trump in 2024 and is standing by the vote. I am having a VERY hard time. Help me, DCUM. Do I just try and forget? Never discuss Trump or my job (I'm a furloughed fed) ever again? I don't want to lose my dad, but I just can't cope.

So you view your dad as a reflection of yourself and he therefore must fall in line to your way of thinking. Sounds like a typical self absorbed liberal, frankly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The two old dads I know they voted for trump have early dementia. They got duped. Both regret it, by the way. But yeah I think it’s a sign of mental confusion.

It’s definitely takes a screw loose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself. We have friends who voted for Trump and we agree to disagree. We rarely talk politics and regret it when we do.

This. Op, you are now in the minority and need to get over this. A lot of reasonable republicans, moderates, conservatives, all not MAGA, decided to vote for Trump simply because he was more fiscally responsible and pledged to get rid of DC bureaucracy and the imperial president and the debt -- which Democrats do not. that is al. To cry "OMG he voted for Trump" shows political unsophistication.

OP is absolutely not in the minority. I cannot believe how many people are normalizing this.

Normalizing what? A candidate who was democratically elected by receiving the most votes?

Well yeah because those votes represent not a political divide but a moral/ethical divide.

A majority of voters cast their votes for values I personally can't cotton to. Whether each one believed in and wanted what's going on to happen or whether they suffer from
#TrumpDelusionSyndrome
and thought he was what they wanted hime to be, not what he kept showing he was...frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Found the dementia patient.

[Anonymous]

Everyone I know voted for Trump. Except one loser, nobody talks to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a middle-aged woman. I’m an attorney who represents society’s underserved for a career. I have 3+ kids. I voted for Trump.

Bigots come in all shapes and sizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom not only voted for Trump but "assisted" my dad who has late stage dementia with voting for him too. I will still help them when they need it (medical issues, etc) but I won't choose to spend time with them outside of that. I stopped inviting them to things my kids are involved in.

+1000

Anyone is free to vote for whomever they want. Also, anyone else is also free to choose to NOT spend time with people who don't care about humanity, especially their own kids and how things impact them. I don't blame you for not wanting to spend time with people who think that way. Life is too short for that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:90% of the people in your life who you don’t know who they voted for, voted for Trump.

Not really. Live in a blue state, in a very blue area of that state. Even the R's in our area that I know did NOT vote Trump in 2020 or 2024, they learned from their mistake in 2016 (where they largely voted for his tax plans). I don't know a single person locally that voted for him in 2024. Have a few friends from other areas of country who I know voted for him each time, and I chalk that up to just their environment (Deep South) for the last 50+ years. And I don't discuss politics with them or really spend that much time with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in DC and my parents live in Texas where I grew up. I've always known we didn't see eye to eye politically and we generally don't discuss politics to stay out of the fray. I knew my dad didn't vote for Hillary or Trump in 2016 and haven't really asked him his votes since. But I just learned he voted for Trump in 2024 and is standing by the vote. I am having a VERY hard time. Help me, DCUM. Do I just try and forget? Never discuss Trump or my job (I'm a furloughed fed) ever again? I don't want to lose my dad, but I just can't cope.

I could’ve written this. Except for me it’s both my parents. I was pretty shocked, TBH.

How do I deal? By understanding that they really don’t see politics the same way I do. I actually think a lot of Americans are like this. They have no true understanding of how the government works or should work. Mine were very surprised to hear that the govt shutdown has both my husband and I going without pay.

They will criticize Trump but it’s clear they don’t link their vote to what he’s doing.

We don’t talk politics very often. They are my parents and I love them. I think I just decided that I’m not letting Trump ruin my relationship with them like he ruins everything else.

Would you view it differently if you have lost your job due to Trumps tactics? Or if you had a LGTBQ kid or niece/nephew/close friend? It's harder to distance yourself from that if you personally are affected by his policies or have close friends who are as well. That's just what many in Europe did in the 1930s, and it didn't work out well

[Anonymous]

I’m sure he watches Fox 24/7

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself. We have friends who voted for Trump and we agree to disagree. We rarely talk politics and regret it when we do.

This. Op, you are now in the minority and need to get over this. A lot of reasonable republicans, moderates, conservatives, all not MAGA, decided to vote for Trump simply because he was more fiscally responsible and pledged to get rid of DC bureaucracy and the imperial president and the debt -- which Democrats do not. that is al. To cry "OMG he voted for Trump" shows political unsophistication.

OP is absolutely not in the minority. I cannot believe how many people are normalizing this.

Normalizing what? A candidate who was democratically elected by receiving the most votes?

Normalizing a politician who attempted a coup, has destroyed all our norms, whose actions are actively leading to the deaths of millions worldwide, more corrupt than can be outlined in this post, etc. I don't find anyone who voted for Trump to be reasonable. The best I can hope for is dreadfully misinformed.