Topic: Your family disowns you over politics. - page 2. (Read 212 times)

Politics can break families apart when they have different views about the election, and who they support. What I don't fancy about it, is when they begin to take it to the next level of hating and killing themselves for someone who doesn't know whether they exist or fighting for their interest.

It's only a fool who hates his or her family for politics, whereby the person they support wouldn't be in the seat of leadership for long, they will step down, and another person will take over. Why then hate on family members for what reason, when the family bond is meant forever, not to be broken by politics

I have no problem with that, since my parents were always more conservative than me. They were the old guard of authoritarian Christian conservatives who grew up after WW2, while I was always a conservative libertarian, so we had our differences, especially when it came to religion and law, but there was never any risk of isolation or disowning.

I don;t know any leftist, or people who like woke culture. If I knew them I'd probably destroy them with facts.

There is no doubt that family love is one of the most important things one can have in moments of uncertainty and in my opinion and that love and care is never supposed to be broken by politics, not even for disagreements among family members on how a country is supposed to be run or not.
It is part of the playbook of how American politics work, if you asked me, keeping the families and the whole population of a country divided and fighting against one another, so they cannot focus on real problems within society.
It is said that family is the basic unit of society and if that is true then western families need to be aware of the importance of union, care, love and mutual support within a family, otherwise one's country gets weaker and weaker through time.

The "cut off" happens in Christianity too, but not done in hate. You could consider it an act of love especially for the healthy ones who are uninfected by evil from infected person.
The cut off is like isolating an infected person from the rest, but the isolated person isn't allowed to rot away. He/she is isolated to heal while being voluntarily "reeducated" with the holy Bible.

But when people at the wrong side are isolating you, instead of you isolating them, it could be considered a self isolation which they do ignorantly for your good. Besides, humans or animals with dissimilar behavior naturally "isolate" themselves. And that could help keep things be more peaceful, prevent the whole from getting spoiled or let people with similar abilities come together to solve problems they are uniquely equipped to solve

This post makes me recall how a brother shot his own brother because of different political views. These democrats are taking the issue too far and thereby destroying their family ties. Elections will come and go but your family members will always be around forever. If you disconnect with your children because of your political views, when you get old or sick would your political party come and stand with you. It's stupidity to choose a political party over a family.

A PRRI study shows 23% of Democrats want to cut ties with family members who disagree with them about politics. Leftist outlet Salon covers the story in a seemingly positive way:
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/18/going-no-contact-with-maga-parents-crucial-self-care-or-the-unraveling-of-america/

"On the Trump-voter side of the debate, the sentiment has been nearly unanimous: It's an outrage if "woke" friends and family stop speaking to them. The only real disagreement among that cohort is whether this trend is literally the devil's work, or merely liberal "intolerance." One TikTok video that went viral featured a woman crying about being cut off and saying, "I'm completely heartbroken about my family taking it how they are. I never did this to them when Biden won." Conservatives have coined the phrase "vote-shaming," which seems to equate political and ideological conflict with personal choices regarding diet or sexuality."

It seems to me this is the bedrock measure of a cult. You have a system of belief, and if you are a disbeliever, you are cut off, whether family or not. It is clearly and obviously intolerant, but the deluded author Salon merely put intolerance in quotes as to not agree with the intolerance of it.

There is nothing that has helped my life more, especially during trying times, than the unconditional love of the people in my life. The shining gem of western conservatism is the unconditional love that seems to specifically originate from Christianity.