I totally understand. The only thing you can do is quietly show the way. For sure direct attempts at persuasion are useless and create more division. I have watched my best friend try to hold her family together through this same split and truly only compassion is working.
I totally understand. The only thing you can do is quietly show the way. For sure direct attempts at persuasion are useless and create more division. I have watched my best friend try to hold her family together through this same split and truly only compassion is working.
I am finding it difficult to be compassionate with my Covid-denying, Trump supporting sister because she knows better. I don't know what happened. She used to be intelligent and analytical, but now she is all emotion. She is an evangelical Christian, and I have a hard time with the hypocrisy. She once told me that she doesn't wear a mask (she lives in Florida) because no one needs to and that everyone around her feels the same way. I am so glad that I live in Massachusetts! We barely speak - only a brief text now and then and our last phone call was mid-November. I'm sad, but I don't see a way out except maybe time and the ending of the pandemic.
I agree with you. Both my sisters live in the Keys, which at the begining closed off from the rest of Florida to protect their residents, but now it is like it never happened. I have a son with a developmental disability so part of my world is with those who are disabled. Most are democrats and would do anything to protect their children and receive medical help, as the costs can be staggering. But my son just came and told me his friend thinks the vaccine is unnecessay, unless you are in your 80's. This friend also has had cancer and has heart problems. He is in his late 20's but is a Trumper and will not get the vaccine. It just makes me want to cry. Trump secretly getting the vaccine was just so horrible.
I would encourage anyone who has тАЬlostтАЭ family members to conspiracy theory rhetoric to watch an excellent documentary on Netflix called тАЬSocial DilemmaтАЭ which describes how people are sucked into these groups.
I believe it was yesterday or possibly Saturday that a gripping and heart breaking account in the Washington Post addressed the great divide happening in families. They interviewed the mother (who had become a QAnon cult member) and her daughters who were struggling to reach her. All involved were intelligent and educated women. This is a terrible plight for many families and I don't know how it is going to end. It is the elephant in the living room in my own family; we only discuss the weather or family. Nothing else is safe.
I would encourage anyone who has тАЬlostтАЭ family members to conspiracy theory rhetoric to watch an excellent documentary on Netflix called тАЬSocial DilemmaтАЭ which describes how people are sucked into these groups.
I have found 1 thing I can still talk civilly about with each of my 3 trumper brothers. To that end I watch The Voice, make Mexican food, and plan camping trips. Once a week since the inauguration, I call or text each of them, riff with then on the their respective topic, and wish them well. Two months after the insurrection, none of them have brought up politics. I doubt if they have changed their stars and stripes. I think it's just that life is happening again, the stock market hasn't crashed, and they have gotten vaccines. I have hope.
I would encourage anyone who has тАЬlostтАЭ family members to conspiracy theory rhetoric to watch an excellent documentary on Netflix called тАЬSocial DilemmaтАЭ which describes how people are sucked into these groups.
I totally understand. The only thing you can do is quietly show the way. For sure direct attempts at persuasion are useless and create more division. I have watched my best friend try to hold her family together through this same split and truly only compassion is working.
I am finding it difficult to be compassionate with my Covid-denying, Trump supporting sister because she knows better. I don't know what happened. She used to be intelligent and analytical, but now she is all emotion. She is an evangelical Christian, and I have a hard time with the hypocrisy. She once told me that she doesn't wear a mask (she lives in Florida) because no one needs to and that everyone around her feels the same way. I am so glad that I live in Massachusetts! We barely speak - only a brief text now and then and our last phone call was mid-November. I'm sad, but I don't see a way out except maybe time and the ending of the pandemic.
Mend the rifts with relations whenever possible. Too many people regret not resolving family tensions.
I agree with you. Both my sisters live in the Keys, which at the begining closed off from the rest of Florida to protect their residents, but now it is like it never happened. I have a son with a developmental disability so part of my world is with those who are disabled. Most are democrats and would do anything to protect their children and receive medical help, as the costs can be staggering. But my son just came and told me his friend thinks the vaccine is unnecessay, unless you are in your 80's. This friend also has had cancer and has heart problems. He is in his late 20's but is a Trumper and will not get the vaccine. It just makes me want to cry. Trump secretly getting the vaccine was just so horrible.
I would encourage anyone who has тАЬlostтАЭ family members to conspiracy theory rhetoric to watch an excellent documentary on Netflix called тАЬSocial DilemmaтАЭ which describes how people are sucked into these groups.
I believe it was yesterday or possibly Saturday that a gripping and heart breaking account in the Washington Post addressed the great divide happening in families. They interviewed the mother (who had become a QAnon cult member) and her daughters who were struggling to reach her. All involved were intelligent and educated women. This is a terrible plight for many families and I don't know how it is going to end. It is the elephant in the living room in my own family; we only discuss the weather or family. Nothing else is safe.
Lynne 1 min ago
I would encourage anyone who has тАЬlostтАЭ family members to conspiracy theory rhetoric to watch an excellent documentary on Netflix called тАЬSocial DilemmaтАЭ which describes how people are sucked into these groups.
If it helps, remember you can abhor the behavior, yet love the person.
I have found 1 thing I can still talk civilly about with each of my 3 trumper brothers. To that end I watch The Voice, make Mexican food, and plan camping trips. Once a week since the inauguration, I call or text each of them, riff with then on the their respective topic, and wish them well. Two months after the insurrection, none of them have brought up politics. I doubt if they have changed their stars and stripes. I think it's just that life is happening again, the stock market hasn't crashed, and they have gotten vaccines. I have hope.
To the best of your knowledge, what *did* happen? These stories abound, while seeming inconceivable.
I would encourage anyone who has тАЬlostтАЭ family members to conspiracy theory rhetoric to watch an excellent documentary on Netflix called тАЬSocial DilemmaтАЭ which describes how people are sucked into these groups.
I agree, attempts at тАШreasoningтАЩ only tightens the conviction.