I have 2 GOP parents, one that voted Trump originally and one that did not. Over the last 9 years, I have watched them both travel down the MAGA pipeline to become visibly fascist. The parents who taught me racism was wrong and to have empathy for others, have become openly hostile about immigrants, Muslims, and even parrot the Nazi “great replacement” theory.

Part and parcel with this, they refuse to have any discussions about the facts – like immigrants not stealing and eating people’s pets. They won’t hear it, they won’t even engage in the conversation…they just get angry and loud the second they hear anything that doesn’t fit into the Fox News narrative. Can you relate? How are you dealing with it in your relationships with your parents?

  • lemonwood@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    I’m happy for you and your dad but you say

    “Sometimes I wish you were still Republican, so I’d have someone to yell at.”

    as if there weren’t still plenty of very good reasons to yell at Democrats…

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      9 hours ago

      It’s 2025. The US government is under the complete control of a fascist regime.

      Yelling at Democrats would be a silly thing to do.

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        9 hours ago

        Well Democrats aren’t fully committed to fighting a fascist regime so not yelling at Democrats would be a silly thing to do