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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH’s parents are MAGA. He said it’d be better if they were dead instead of losing them to the insanity. 
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I can't come to believe that certain old people can be "lost" to MAGA.   People are attracted or repulsed based on their pre-existing values.  My grandparents were kind and decent and, while they didn't live long enough to see MAGA, they would never had been taken by mocking disabled people or just plain gratuitous cruelty.  By contrast, my father bragged to us about bedding other women, so of course he is attracted to a man who grabs them by the p****y.  My mother had her 4 children on food stamps and still hates the poor, so of course she loves a billionaire who accepts a $400MM gift from an Arab state.  No one should be surprised that their family is MAGA.[/quote]

Exactly! My parents always had racist views and hate the poor.  No surprise there![/quote]

As a minority (Black), I've always been confused about people acting surprised by their parents' newfound MAGA allegiance and racist/homophobic/etc beliefs. Sincere question: were there really no signs until the last few years.  I can't imagine not being aware of my parents' uglier side for my entire life.  I'm not judging (I promise) but how can adult children  (or even teenagers)  not recognize this in their parents at an earlier stage? [/quote]

I would not characterize my parents as MAGA, but both my brother and I were quite shocked when we learned they voted for Trump and apparently identify as Republicans. Neither my parents or grandparents (long since deceased) have ever/were ever racist or sexist. Like, the worst thing I ever heard was my grandmother, who was born in 1910, acknowledge that it was acceptable once to say "colored," and that was in reference to something someone else said in a story she was telling.

In retrospect we were raised as what I'd describe as color blind, but not particularly progressive. We didn't talk a lot of politics growing up but definitely talked about public policy or current events. My brother and I are both liberal.

My parents have bought into the lie that there "just wasn't a choice" so they had to vote for Trump. It's been kind of heartbreaking, if I'm honest.[/quote]

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