it's not a desire to make them see things the way I see it, but rather to have them be open to me having views they don't hold. The misery part is hard though, especially in a liberal area where everyone actually hates anyone who isn't a marxist. I mean the looks I get when I go food shopping wearing my trump hat is ridiculous, and even more so when the very same people would talk about being worried about the hateful nazis who voted for trump
It feels what like I imagine being in the Weimar republic must've felt like or something, completely isolating. They claim to be open to all views except for anything they don't like. I mean I don't really like marxists but I wouldn't give them death glares or shout at them or make passive aggressive remarks. I'd accept that we have differences and move on
I've tried going that route, they always fall back on "well if everything were so corrupt people would be reporting on it" and any implication of the media being corrupt too is met with "well people go into journalism to tell the truth so that must mean what the media says is the truth and if you don't believe that you're a conspiracy theorist"
my family sides with the niggers and shittalk the police. Hell my sister brags about going to BLM rallies and talks about how all cops are evil pigs while I'm in the same room, with no regard to the fact that I dated a cop for a while
I can't force them to break the barrier. What's that saying, you can bring a horse to water but you can't make it drink? That's what it feels like tbqh
my Oma is like that, my mother's side of the family was in the party. I have relatives who were in the SS, the Luftwaffe, the HJ and BDM, etc. I think it skipped a generation
that's never going to fly, they would blame it on white people somehow. When ever I get them to the point that they blatantly contradict themselves they literally just say "I can't talk about this with you anymore" and that's that.
I tried getting my mum to read Von den Juden und Ihren Luegen but she didn't want to, same story with the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Are there any books out there that are a little more accessible?
that's the weird thing, we're all pretty into the /out/doors. Not a lot of media exposure, which is why I assume they still have any faith in it.
my father did no leading, he was less of a father and more of a friend growing up. He's selfish and manipulative, to the point of actual gaslighting (not like in the faggy trs way but like actual sociopathic behaviour way). My mum has always been a hippy, and they raised the both of us that way. It's a straight miracle that I got out of that, and that was only because I did like what suggested and moved to a 40%+ black population city in order to help the underprivileged blacks.
don't worry, I'm sure we'll find a way
that's a good point, the weird thing is my family is relatively intelligent. If anything, I'd say that the lefty views come more from being naieve than it does from being stupid.
the worst feel
thanks, it's nice to know it is actually possible then
ooh excellent, my mum likes documentaries so that'll come in handy