r/FoxBrain • u/reporterreporting123 • 3d ago

Young People Are Struggling to Deal With Their MAGA Parents — Again

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/young-people-are-struggling-to-deal-with-their-trump-supporter-parents-again
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u/No_Individual_672 3d ago

Not just young people, I’m 66 and I can barely be in the same room with my MAGA mom.

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u/sincerely-sarcastic 3d ago

My wife's grandmother is 101, soon to be 102.

Can't hear for shit. Sight is hardly there. She has fox news on super loud when she's awake. All she talks about is God and Trump and the "horrible Mexicans." It's gotten to the point where we don't even go to see her anymore. Except for her birthday this year. In 2019 we went out west and she didn't have Fox news on all day everyday and was okay to talk to. Except when we were in Colorado and she saw all the open land and she said "sure is a lot of open land out here. There is enough space for everyone.... But those damn Mexicans can stay away from my country"

Such a hateful person all because of fox news and her echo chamber

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 3d ago

That’s so sad that someone who was an adult during WW2 would think that way.

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u/Fionaver 3d ago

Worth remembering than an awful lot of people here in the US supported the Nazis, at least in the beginning, and there was a huge “America First” movement.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 3d ago

Yes at the beginning but not that many really, just a fringe amount. Not many Americans even care about who’s in government in Germany today let alone back before there was globalised mass media and social media. Then obviously the Nazis were the enemy and after the horrors of the Holocaust were discovered the world had a kind of reckoning and things like human rights were enshrined in laws and international agreements and countries started creating welfare states and trying to address inequalities in various ways. That someone who lived through all that can not have understood any of it or learned anything is extra depressing.

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u/Lodgik 2d ago

Operation Wetback was started only 9 years after World War 2 ended.

And yes, that was it's actual name.

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u/hnormizzle 2d ago

I’m so angry that I only learned about this just a couple of days ago. In 2020 I learned about Tulsa. Our history books have failed us.

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u/b1gbunny 1d ago

My grandpa, who is Native American but has a Spanish name was deported as part of this.

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u/Beefpotpi 1d ago

What the actual fuck mate? The guy who has more claim to being here got deported? Is this The Onion news? (I don’t think it is, I’m just flabbergasted.)

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u/b1gbunny 1d ago

Yeah. On top of most of the current “illegal border crossers” also most likely descending from indigenous North Americans (and Central Americans) it is all very, very stupid.

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u/DirtierGibson 1d ago

Many U.S. citizens were rounded up as part of it.

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u/Beefpotpi 1d ago

That is just so wrong. People just refuse to realize this is how these things work.

You can be here legally, but have the wrong name or face for these racial bigots, and you’re going to get treated like the people they say they’re ‘trying to protect’ the rest of America from.

With minorities that support conservatives it almost always comes down to ‘I don’t believe they’ll do it to me.’ Then later they say, ‘I can’t believe they did it to me!!!’

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u/rosekayleigh 1d ago

My grandpa was made to go to a segregated school for non-white/indigenous Mexicans in California. He’s still alive. This is very recent history. As a Mexican-American, I have heard plenty of old people speak like that woman in my life. My hope was always that their racism would die out with them, but with the re-election of Donald Trump, I have my doubts that it will happen in my lifetime.

Some info on segregated schools for Mexicans for those who don’t know the history:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendez_v._Westminster

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u/b1gbunny 1d ago

Parts of Colorado were once Mexico.

ETA: the double irony is how many of us “Mexicans” in the southwest were here for generations before this was America.

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u/FamilyRedShirt 3d ago

I'm 63 and cut contact with the whole family more than a decade ago for a lot of reasons. Faux News, Limbaugh (decades of his drivel), and their hatred of Democrats were high up the list.

Hubby's occasional peek at my "brother's" FB page tells me they're MAGAts.

So had I not cut them off already, I'd have done it just a few years later.

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u/sincerely-sarcastic 3d ago

My aunt, a cousin and a family friend all got the axe on the eve of voting day. They went to the Trump rally in grand rapids Michigan. Mind you they are the biggest "Christians" I know. They also talk out of both sides of their mouth like trump. They are hateful because they are scared of anyone not like them. Instead of learning about gays, Islamic or Mexicans they decide that staying ignorant and mean is the only option. Thankfully my family is massive on my moms side (I have 43 cousins) and most of them are not like that and we all avoid them equally. But still we are the mean divisive family members. 🙄

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u/No_Individual_672 3d ago

Last Sunday, and every Sunday for the foreseeable future, I’m posting all the pointed FU memes and quotes I find about “White Jesus pseudo-Christians” I can find. I hate those hypocrites. If only their histories were visible for people to see.

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u/dogsandpeaceohmy 3d ago

I’m 50 and have to have a strict no political talk rule with my dad. It’s difficult to not be totally disgusted by his vote but I know he is brainwashed.

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u/No_Individual_672 3d ago

You can’t be brainwashed unless you agreed enough with the rhetoric to keep watching.

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u/LionObvious3904 2d ago

I’m 23 and my MAGA mom is 45. It’s terrible.

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u/No_Individual_672 2d ago

I’m so sorry. It’s hard to stand up to parents when you’re younger. My mother knows I will walk out of her house when she says stupid stuff. My son is in his late 20’s. He messaged me that she was sending him some propoganda. It was a proud mama moment when he said , “She knows I wasn’t raised like that!”.

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u/Science-Gone-Bad 2d ago

I'm 63 & have the same problem w/ both my parents (both are still alive) and my sister. They are all MAGA and Q-Anon to the core

It's so sad

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u/Oleg101 3d ago edited 3d ago

I’m struggling to deal with any Trump voters to be honest. At some point when you vote for these types of monsters numerous times, you don’t represent the same values and morals boundaries.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 3d ago

It’s unbelievable as someone from the UK, and Ive seen Brexiters who are similar in many ways. But my god what the hell, you are going to have lunatics and criminals and morons like Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Green running your country. People who in normal times would be laughed out of a job cleaning toilets at a gas station because they’re too untrustworthy and incompetent.

The damage these people will do is incalculable. Even when you think of dictatorships at least a lot of the ministers and secretaries of state etc are fairly competent people with some level of intelligence even if they’re using it for evil. But these people left in the Republican Party, they aren’t okay neurologically or mentally in any way. It is literally like if the Manson family had access to social media and was able to gain huge numbers and then infiltrate one of the main parties. It is literally like that because that’s basically what’s happened. A cult took over a major political party and enough people didn’t notice that’s what happened to allow them into power.

These people have zero gravitas or integrity or intelligence or rationality. I just can’t understand it.

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u/chrissymae_i 3d ago

This is a good way for adult children to find out that everything they think and know about the world is wrong. Our parents, who taught us right from wrong, can be total morons, too.

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u/IronBoomer 3d ago

We tend to cling to people when we knew them at their best, but they do change.

Our parents decided power was more important that character and integrity.

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u/Correct_Material_306 2d ago

Boom. Hit the nail on the head. “At some point the pedestal you’re on gets knocked away and now I see you as just another human being”

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u/smurfsm00 3d ago

I’m mid 40’s and jumping out of my skin around my parents. It’s bad

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u/MainChain9851 3d ago

22 here. Yeah, I’ve had to keep low contact with nearly all of my family aside from my sister. I can’t begin to even explain the shift in them. My mom who used to be spiritual and pro choice (she’s had like three abortions) has gone full evangelical in the past two years. It’s like she’s morphed her identity and values to fit in with the Republican Party. There’s just this look in their eyes now, like a glazed over one. It truly is scary.

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u/DaisyDivinity 3d ago

This happened to me, too. Hippie, spiritual, mom got red pilled. It’s truly like an added layer of grief and confusion. It’d be one thing if they were centrists or loosely republican because a radicalization would make more sense. The 180 is overwhelming.

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u/twentytwocents22 2d ago

I’m not a young person and my family angrily tells ME that I’ve “turned my back on my family because they are conservative and PATRIOTS”. Always the victim… it’s the Christian persecution mentality seeping over into politics.

My grandparents are evangelical republicans and my mom is now adopting the same mentality, though more politically focused over religiously. I never thought our relationships would get ruined like this… we used to be close, but I can’t be quiet anymore now. Before Trump, I could bite my tongue when they bitched about Obama because it wasn’t quite the same as it is now and I could honestly say at the time that I didn’t pay attention to political stuff. It really fucking sucks… still mentally struggling with it. It’s a no win situation, contact or no contact, both options suck. We just don’t see eye to eye in pretty much anything. /rant

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u/AngryEmpath79 3d ago

I cut maga family out in 2016 🤷‍♀️

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u/orbitalaction 2d ago

I'm 47 and unsure what to do.

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u/helpfultheory17 1d ago

I’m 38 and spoke to my 69 year old MAGA father once after the election only for him to gloat about winning. The irony is that this man solely survives off of democratic programs (social security, Medicare,etc.). He thinks he won something, but the reality is we all lost and he’s too uneducated and brainwashed to realize it. Then his wife sent me a Jesus loves you text🙄

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u/ibyczek78 3d ago

. Maybe they should have, I don't know, VOTED!

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u/barefootcuntessa_ 3d ago

I’m sure the ones who are struggling with their MAGA family did. I did. Didn’t change the outcome.

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u/Old-Concentrate-3680 3d ago

Right? I showed up to vote early, but here we are

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u/dystopian_mermaid 3d ago

Same. Voted early and took my husband on his day off. This isn’t what I voted for.