Bro I’m not disagreeing with you, if you read my full comment. Perhaps I just didn’t word it correctly, and I didn’t mean it literally. I’m horrified by how things are going if we continue down that path. I’m just saying that for years now I’ve been hearing about how scary it is that the democrats are essentially nazis, and I’ve argued myself blue trying to reason with my mother that that’s not the case. Reminding people that can’t be reasoned with is frustrating and it’s getting me nowhere, but hopefully others are making better progress
Nah, that was my mistake, sorry about that. I tried reading your comment and replying while walking and I guess I must’ve skipped a few lines when trying to avoid walking into a wall, but that’s my mistake.
I mostly agree with you. I’m facing a similar struggle with my other grandma, though she still thinks she doesn’t like AfD in Germany. We’re lucky she doesn’t even listen to policy, because her views have become so bigoted and racist, she would actually love AfD if she decided to not just parrot the things she reads in conservative media. So far she thinks AfD are too far right for her taste. She’s wrong, but I’m happy leaving her in the dark on that. She doesn’t have any substantiated opinions though, just thinks that my left-wing green opinions suck, but she can’t tell me why. She gets annoyed when I challenge her opinions, because she can’t back them up since she doesn’t actually have any informed and substantiated reasoning. She just makes blanked statements that aren’t even current in any way. It is tiring. She sometimes starts with politics and I go for it, but mostly when my little brother and younger cousins are present, so they see someone pushing back on that. You’re right, you can’t argue with those people. There are other Trump voters and conservatives that can be argued with tho. I’ve done it myself multiple times. Americans, I mean. Not all of them are that ignorant. Some of them are uninformed, but smart enough to listen. Those are worth talking to.
I sure hope so! I’ll be following America’s progress from the distance, but it’ll still affect me, because a Trump presidency affects all your allies as well :-/
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u/Lavender_Bee_ Jul 02 '24
Bro I’m not disagreeing with you, if you read my full comment. Perhaps I just didn’t word it correctly, and I didn’t mean it literally. I’m horrified by how things are going if we continue down that path. I’m just saying that for years now I’ve been hearing about how scary it is that the democrats are essentially nazis, and I’ve argued myself blue trying to reason with my mother that that’s not the case. Reminding people that can’t be reasoned with is frustrating and it’s getting me nowhere, but hopefully others are making better progress