Learned Dad voted for Trump

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you can't pick your parents.

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Do you mean learned as an adjective or verb? Because I have a highly intelligent "learned" relative who voted for trump but she is one of my favorite relatives as well as friends so we concentrate on other things we have in common.

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Didn’t read the replies but: if it hasn’t been an issue up until now, why make it one now?

Trying to discuss it with him will just bring stress you do not need in your life IMHO.

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

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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.

Honestly, people with dementia are not competent to vote. If they can’t pay their bills or manage their affairs, it’s probably time to hang up the ballots as well.

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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.

Honestly, people with dementia are not competent to vote. If they can’t pay their bills or manage their affairs, it’s probably time to hang up the ballots as well.

But you supported demented Brandon for all those years

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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.

Honestly, people with dementia are not competent to vote. If they can’t pay their bills or manage their affairs, it’s probably time to hang up the ballots as well.

But you supported demented Brandon for all those years

He is still much saner than your Dear Leader.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you mean learned as an adjective or verb? Because I have a highly intelligent "learned" relative who voted for trump but she is one of my favorite relatives as well as friends so we concentrate on other things we have in common.

Even learned people make irrational, uninformed decisions.

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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.

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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.

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I think they really don't get the implications and/or they like the lies. Which is deplorable. Hillary was right about that one.

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My parents are devoted to Trump and believe everything he does is for the good of the country. They never ask my husband, who is furloughed, and I, who may be furloughed soon, how things are going. When I told them my husband was furloughed, they acted surprised and couldn’t seem to wrap their heads around it. It was weird. We don’t have much contact with them at this point. As far as I’m concerned, they are in another world. They live in MAGAtown with OAN blaring, cup of Kool-Aid in hand, ready to gulp it down when they’re orange king tells them to, happily isolated from us because we make them uncomfortable.

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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.

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I think they really don't get the implications and/or they like the lies. Which is deplorable. Hillary was right about that one.

I think, for some, that they enjoy feeling like they're "in" on the con.

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Look up The Necessary Conversation on IG, but it's actually a podcast. See if your Dad wants to sound like those parental morons.

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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’m not reading this whole thread because I can only imagine what turns it’s taken, but I hear you OP. The bulk of my family are Trump supporters and honestly, I try to compartmentalize it to maintain a relationship with them. I’ve got one BIL who will poke at DH’s and my political beliefs when we’re together and DH does a fantastic job of navigating those conversations. My parents are big Christians (the kind I think needs a trade mark) and to avoid the issue of going to church with them we always travel on Sundays - either there or away.

The fact is that I love my parents and they gave me a good upbringing. I actually largely credit them for being the person I am today. I was raised in the church and really listened to the stories about Jesus and who he supported and who he had harsh words for and while I’m not religious, I think I have a very strong moral compass rooted in compassions because of how they chose to raise me.

We aren’t as close as we used to be, and there are tons of topics we just avoid because our views are in such opposition to one another and they don’t want to debate me any more than I want to debate them.

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PP again. My in-laws were Republicans who begrudgingly supported Trump in 2016, but now can’t stand him so that’s been fun to watch. Honestly, so much of the shift started when they allowed themselves to watch something other than Fox News and realized for themselves the news that was either flat out not reported by Fox or immediately reported with the Pro-Trump spin pre-installed.