Cecilie1200
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Same here with my oldest son. Total leftist asshole.Many of you have probably read my posts making reference to my older sister, who is the token leftist bully in my family (Mom has admitted that she fell on her head as a baby). This is a woman who threw an all-day screaming tantrum at our 80-year-old mother, threatening to throw her out of the house with nowhere to live, simply because Mom rather mildly defended Trump's Presidency. Everyone in the family basically avoids talking about politics or social issues anywhere that she might overhear, simply because we know that she'll immediately butt in and turn the event - whatever it might be - into an ugly screaming match, and no one considers the hassle to be worth it.
Well, no one until my oldest son, Nick.
My daughter, Nick's older sister, posted a shot of a Tweet on her Facebook, showing a chart with the differences between the two parties on certain subjects, obviously with a right-wing perspective.
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Mind you, my daughter doesn't especially like my sister, and basically never talks to her, and never responds to anything she says or does on Facebook. This never stops my sister from feeling the need to interject into any politics-related post my daughter makes. This time, she felt the need to comment dismissively, about how it was all "kid information" (I assume this is in contrast to the deep, insightful analyses she posts about "Orange Man BAAAD!").
Nick happened to see this conversation (He's usually the only 24-year-old in North America who avoids Facebook). This was his response:
I feel it's very succinct. It's still important to the overall political sphere to remember what each side is advocating for outside of their presidential candidate, especially since Trump's saying the same things he's always said and nobody has any idea what Biden's actually saying.
Sis gave an almost boilerplate, hypocritical leftist answer:
The information given is not true or valid. It is skewed based on someone's misinterpretation and prejudice. There needs to be objectivity.
This from a woman who routinely re-posts attack articles from Vox.com.
Nick proceeded to write a lengthy essay back, basically telling my sister that she's a biased bully trying to silence anyone who disagrees with her bigoted perspective, and to back off of his "beloved older sister", as he put it. Now I'm just waiting for the family shit to hit the fan . . . although she may need a thesaurus to figure out that she's just been told. I didn't even know Facebook allowed posts that long. My favorite part was this:
And speaking of prejudices, this is coming from you, who responded to someone's post by referring to it as kid information, fundamentally devaluing them and their opinion by dismissing it off-hand as something you consider inferior and generally beneath you, and refuse to consider the position they find themselves in which leads them to believe that which they do as it objectively is. No, rather you refer to it as either idiocy or a malicious attempt to do exatly what you've just done to my beloved older sister, since you can't believe someone extremely intelligent and capable is able to view things in a different way than you view them.
Mind you, I'm proud of my kids, and I'm very proud that my son can verbally open up a can of whoop-ass on anyone, and that he's so energized AND thoughtful about the upcoming election. But . . . hoo BOY, is this about to get ugly.
Not sure any family fights quite the way mine does, but is anyone else's family re-enacting the Civil War over the upcoming election?
Does it cause family conflict, or does your family just ignore it? Or do you just not talk to him? How does the dynamic shake out for you?
