Remember that they are your family and love them anyway :-). Family is one of the things that "really matters". Even the part that drives you nuts.
Political parties exist to create a kind of blindness, a loyalty over sense kind of blindness. It seems to me it's gotten much worse in the last 2 decades but perhaps I've just better at se…
Remember that they are your family and love them anyway :-). Family is one of the things that "really matters". Even the part that drives you nuts.
Political parties exist to create a kind of blindness, a loyalty over sense kind of blindness. It seems to me it's gotten much worse in the last 2 decades but perhaps I've just better at seeing it as I've aged and learned. Separate the party from the person. It can be painful to watch people you care about, who you know have the "smarts" to do better, parrot things we know to be false because that is the belief they've chosen, because that is the belief the high priest of The Party has dictated to them. For me it helps to remember the "who I care about" ahead of the rest. And then I smile and change the subject ;-).
Thank you for the reminder, what you say is true, and I love them all more than words can say. But in my case there is stuff beyond politics; there is generational gaslighting, ancient role-playing and family baggage. But the current situation has brought matters into sharper focus, and also I somehow seem to have grown a spine sometime over the past 20 years, which my bossypants older sisters were not prepared to deal with. I've rocked our dysfunctional boat and it's created chaos and uproar. I hope in time we will achieve a new level of understanding, trust and respect, but for now what I most needed was to step back and let be, and wait upon the Lord and the Tao. And, like Jo, hope that we will all live to be reconciled.
Remember that they are your family and love them anyway :-). Family is one of the things that "really matters". Even the part that drives you nuts.
Political parties exist to create a kind of blindness, a loyalty over sense kind of blindness. It seems to me it's gotten much worse in the last 2 decades but perhaps I've just better at seeing it as I've aged and learned. Separate the party from the person. It can be painful to watch people you care about, who you know have the "smarts" to do better, parrot things we know to be false because that is the belief they've chosen, because that is the belief the high priest of The Party has dictated to them. For me it helps to remember the "who I care about" ahead of the rest. And then I smile and change the subject ;-).
Thank you for the reminder, what you say is true, and I love them all more than words can say. But in my case there is stuff beyond politics; there is generational gaslighting, ancient role-playing and family baggage. But the current situation has brought matters into sharper focus, and also I somehow seem to have grown a spine sometime over the past 20 years, which my bossypants older sisters were not prepared to deal with. I've rocked our dysfunctional boat and it's created chaos and uproar. I hope in time we will achieve a new level of understanding, trust and respect, but for now what I most needed was to step back and let be, and wait upon the Lord and the Tao. And, like Jo, hope that we will all live to be reconciled.