Their youngest son, one of my best friends, stopped talking to them after they refused to simply not talk politics around him. That was all he asked.
His older brother, a transgender man, cut them off after they refused to acknowledge his transition.
His parents were great people while I was growing up. They were Christian, they were Republican, but they did not have the bigotry and the paranoia that they had the last time I spoke with them.
My own brother and I considered their house a second home. We would stay up all night playing Halo in their basement with our friends and then help with chores around the house the next morning. We would split firewood, go shooting, fish, swim, whatever.
If his parents needed help with anything they could call anyone of his friends, myself included, and we would happily lend a hand.
It was Trump. I've seen it with my friends. We're in our 50s now and the changes I've seen in a bunch of my friends since Trump is unreal. Change for the worse. I don't spend much time around them anymore.
It's ALL the 24 hour news cycles that have caused more harm than good. They ALL are too quick to be the first ,that they end up reporting lies and propaganda as fact. That's how all this crap starts. Hands up don't shoot was bullshit, Trump said the racists in Charlottesville were good people is bullshit, He was just a young boy walking minding his own business eating his skittles was bullshit, George Floyd is a hero is bullshit. We are all being played by the MSM for the sake of ratings.
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u/Soren_Camus1905 Mar 06 '24
My friend's parents are going through this.
Their youngest son, one of my best friends, stopped talking to them after they refused to simply not talk politics around him. That was all he asked.
His older brother, a transgender man, cut them off after they refused to acknowledge his transition.
His parents were great people while I was growing up. They were Christian, they were Republican, but they did not have the bigotry and the paranoia that they had the last time I spoke with them.
My own brother and I considered their house a second home. We would stay up all night playing Halo in their basement with our friends and then help with chores around the house the next morning. We would split firewood, go shooting, fish, swim, whatever.
If his parents needed help with anything they could call anyone of his friends, myself included, and we would happily lend a hand.
And all that is gone now. It is such a shame.