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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family has always been fairly left leaning, but once my father married my now stepmother 15 years ago he started to waver a bit as her family is very republican. I am fine with him having different political views, but every conversation we’ve had over the past few months includes him making comments about how Trump is the greatest president in our history (which I doubt even most Trump fans would even agree with) and how everything is the Democrats’ fault (including Breonna Taylor’s death apparently). He goes on 10 minute long rants about how I can’t vote for Biden and that I have been brainwashed if I can’t see how great Trump is. He talks about how misleading most of the news networks and papers are and that they just have it out for Trump, but believes wholeheartedly that Fox News is impartial.

Every time I he starts I tell him that I don’t want to talk politics and try to change the subject and/or tune him out, but I literally can’t stand it anymore and blew up at him when we last spoke.

How do others manage parents or close family members with different political views who are very vocal about them? I’m at the point where I may need to cut that side of my family off to preserve my own sanity.
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Your father is lost in a cult, unfortunately.  These aren't different political views...his values and world view changed. [/quote]

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