I’ve been struggling with the cognitive dissonance that all of my family are veterans and most are somehow conservative thanks to religion. Wearing the uniform and voting for these traitorous shitbags is still baffling to me.
That shit will never add up to me. It’s bad enough to see the switch from, “support our troops!” fervor directly to Trump’s, “I don’t like soldiers who get caught,” and the various other outright scandalous things he’s explicitly said about the military and individuals who have served… I can’t even imagine that happening in a military family.
Just shows how insane this is. It’s like a fucking social contagion.
It’s been at least 20 years of watching this devolution for me and the ‘oh they don’t mean that, oh it was a joke, oh he’s just misled, oh they’re not really racist, you’re just being emotional, he’s obviously trolling’… is what’s got us here. Enough
Every trump supporter is a nazi. fuck em all
I don’t think my girlfriend’s dad is a nazi, I think he’s gullible and confused.
If your girlfriend’s dad is sitting at a table with 10 Nazis, then you have a table of 11 Nazis.
Trust me, I get it. I’ve been grappling with the fact that my parents are fucking fascists.
I’ve been struggling with the cognitive dissonance that all of my family are veterans and most are somehow conservative thanks to religion. Wearing the uniform and voting for these traitorous shitbags is still baffling to me.
That shit will never add up to me. It’s bad enough to see the switch from, “support our troops!” fervor directly to Trump’s, “I don’t like soldiers who get caught,” and the various other outright scandalous things he’s explicitly said about the military and individuals who have served… I can’t even imagine that happening in a military family.
Just shows how insane this is. It’s like a fucking social contagion.
I think you’re still in the denial stage
I think you’re still in the “my emotions control my reasoning” stage.
It’s been at least 20 years of watching this devolution for me and the ‘oh they don’t mean that, oh it was a joke, oh he’s just misled, oh they’re not really racist, you’re just being emotional, he’s obviously trolling’… is what’s got us here. Enough
Using that word a bit liberally
calls literally every supporter of the opposition a Nazi - “I just don’t understand why they don’t want to join my side!?”
I try not to take it too seriously, it’s emotional times and people aren’t being rational. I say all this as a lefty myself btw.