I haven’t lost anyone I wasn’t already on the verge of cutting off, but it has made me lose a lot of respect for some acquaintances who refuse to put the intellectual work into their political stances. An uncle wants Harris to run again, and didn’t understand when I asked “Why, so we can watch her lose again?”, an aunt thinks that Gavin Newsom would be a good candidate, an old grandboss is a libertarian who told me I was “one of the good parts of [my] generation” for not liking Bernie Sanders until I told him it’s because he’s too far right-wing. My brother was a political science major, and is convinced that he’s “far-left” because he “understands how close the US is to fascism”.
Alienating the ones with the most sympathetic ears isn’t going to help them develop further. Their odds are better if I don’t wall-of-text them, and lead them gradually.
I am not in USA and a lot of the election stuff is alien to me as I don’t know much at all. Unfortunately I have been disowned and the only people I keep some contact with are not willing to contact more often on their own volition. Should’ve expected this in a country of 2% trans approval rate but it was a mater of life / death and it just doesn’t seem to get better, I don’t know
I haven’t lost anyone I wasn’t already on the verge of cutting off, but it has made me lose a lot of respect for some acquaintances who refuse to put the intellectual work into their political stances. An uncle wants Harris to run again, and didn’t understand when I asked “Why, so we can watch her lose again?”, an aunt thinks that Gavin Newsom would be a good candidate, an old grandboss is a libertarian who told me I was “one of the good parts of [my] generation” for not liking Bernie Sanders until I told him it’s because he’s too far right-wing. My brother was a political science major, and is convinced that he’s “far-left” because he “understands how close the US is to fascism”.
Alienating the ones with the most sympathetic ears isn’t going to help them develop further. Their odds are better if I don’t wall-of-text them, and lead them gradually.
I am not in USA and a lot of the election stuff is alien to me as I don’t know much at all. Unfortunately I have been disowned and the only people I keep some contact with are not willing to contact more often on their own volition. Should’ve expected this in a country of 2% trans approval rate but it was a mater of life / death and it just doesn’t seem to get better, I don’t know