amysubmits: cherishedproperty:I saw my favorite aunt get nasty to someone on a public Facebook post
amysubmits: cherishedproperty:I saw my favorite aunt get nasty to someone on a public Facebook post yesterday about how, if they didn’t like Trump, they could get the fuck out. And now I’m pretty sure I don’t care if I never go back to my hometown again. The number of people I love who have turned out to be callous, racist pieces of shit is really devastating. Amen.It’s really challenging to try to reconcile the reality that some people who may have been supportive and helpful to me personally are just racist and selfish people. I’ve known that most of my family is conservative for most of my life, but it used to be disguised as being based in religion. Which I didn’t agree with still, but I thought it came from a well intended place in their hearts/minds. Or in terms of fiscal issues, I thought they were just misguided at thinking that “smaller government” with fewer taxes would help them (blue collar workers, primarily) more than new programs or expanding existing programs. Even though these people have gone without health insurance or dental coverage, or go without car insurance, have no retirement at 50+ years old. It’s things that impact their personal lives and don’t vote in their own best interest financially. And it scares me because most of my family has never voted and now they are working to get out the vote. But anyway. Now it’s so blatantly obvious that they understand and always have. That it’s not about religion and abortion, and it’s not about thinking saving 5% on your own taxes would help more than social programs. They just don’t care about others and I think they almost want to suffer themselves, honestly. I feel like I get vibes of self-loathing and feeling honor from suffering, from them. And they act like they want small government but then are such bootlickers when it’s their guy in charge they LOVE seeing oversteps of power. It’s really disheartening to realize that there’s barely anyone in my family who I feel has even a a semi-decent sense of morality in my view. Like they don’t even have good intentions. I don’t think I’ve really wrapped my head around it still. It’s too much on top of everything else going on in 2020 and in my world personally. -- source link