When my mom sits smugly watching a Clinton speech after Clinton sent goons to my house.
I am the wikileaks of my family. I have been telling them the truth they don't want to hear 10 years straight. When my mom sits and says "My son is lying and that politician is telling the truth" It hurts so bad I have to blog about it. She literally has a complete mental breakdown if you ask her why she is voting Clinton knowing what we know now. I would record it if I could. This is not because she is old. This is because media brainwashing is real. When you try to tell someone who has been brainwashed the "Great Leader" wears no pants. You get her textbook reaction. My mom is the kind of person who... "follows the lights" Seeing the touristy value of everywhere and the seedy underworld all around doesn't even exist to her. She is so shocked when somebody is corrupt or she cant rationalize a behavior it almost makes you want to be mad at her instead of the corruption. Make no mistake my mom is having a Chair delivered right now.... We don't need another chair its for decoration. We ain't rich. She says her house is important to her but since a kid I have watched her rearrange the same furniture because "it looks better that way" or when she can , buy furniture and little art deco pieces. We have a couch now I don't think any of us has sat on. Make no mistake my mom is not a hoarder or rich. She does however have patterns.
Edit: There is one way my mom would lose faith in Hillary Clinton. If the idiot box told her to. If mainstream journalists actually did their job. My parents wouldn't be about to protest the TPP and vote for Clinton at the same time. They probably wouldn't have put all their eggs in the stock market before the Bush crash or lost their house to bankruptcy either. These lying, Media personalities backing Politicians blatant lies are not harmless.
I feel you. I'm in the exact same boat. But let me give you some perspective that will make you feel better about her.
She is one of the many people who will not accept any facts that do not support her worldview...which is why liberals do not accept a single fact pointing out the corruption of the Democrat Party. For them to pull a single card out of the house of cards their world view is based upon is to have their whole world come crashing down upon them.
I'll repeat this in a slightly different fashion - to accept that the media lies on ANY SINGLE democrat talking point means they have to acknowledge that the media lies at all.
Everything that they believe is based on those media lies. You are asking them to accept that not only have they been lied to their entire life, but that following bit of logic that they are just suckers, and have been their whole life.
Very few people of any political persuasion would accept that and move on.
Have pity on your mother, and don't push her too hard. I don't even discuss politics with my folk anymore, because of this central point.
When/if they come to haul me to the camps, I am NOT going to say to my mother, "this is all your fault for voting in these tyrants", I'm just going to say "I love you"
Good luck with your family, this is a hard personal choice to make.
Clinton doesn't even need her vote she owns the guy overseeing the GOP voting machines. I am about to post a video I found on it. Both of my parents used to call the T.V the idiot box. They routinely forced me not to watch it. They said that thing is only going to brainwash you. I have not heard either of them use the phrase idiot box in some many years now.
Hypocrisy and bias is baked into the human condition, man. It sucks that our families are the ones that shove this fact of life in our faces. All we can do is make the nest choices for our own situations.
I hate to say it, but sometimes I wish I was the kind of cold bastard to put family loyalty and love behind me, but I can't...this is one of the reasons I remain relatively quiet about what is going on these days.
I am dealing with the same thing on several levels. I totally get your point of view. I also know that not being true to yourself and your beliefs will tear you down inside. I find it beyond ridiculous to use a saying "idiot box" and then worship it.
I think this is one of the reasons I hate the corruption of the democrats far more than the corruption of the republicans.
this divide within families is the consequence of the long running propaganda war the Left has run against liberty over the last 60 years. I know the globalists lie their teeth off as well, but I don't think they could organize such a coordinated campaign.
All I can be glad of about the leftist/globalist alliance is that the globalists will be massacred by the left as soon as the left consolidates power.
That is what "they" are counting on though. If "they" say conspiracy theory enough we will all know better but shut up just so we don't get called "crazy" Your just a "crazy" republican to call Obama a terrorist. You could get away with it before but these emails. If we force them in-front of the public. The people who are ready to wake up will.
That's it on the dot. Those folks who can wake up, though, are the ones who already got hit by reality, not those who are going to be hit by reality. The ones that are GOING to be hit will repeat the narrative until they get hit.
Look at Rome. Despite one barbarian invasion, they continued down the path of self-destruction...because the senatorial and equestrians would NOT face up to reality until reality bashed them in the face
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