Has Right Wing Ideology Torn Your Family Apart?

[Citizen Daryl]

I've just written on my blog tonight about a particularly difficult exchange between my once tolerant and respectful mother - an exchange that has brought me to the realization that she is no longer the woman I grew up with and confided in during my entire life. We used to be able to have rational discussions, and we could discuss the issues in a loving manner. Now she tells me that she's "so sorry to know that you have fallen for all the crap that is flying. I figured you for a free thinker, but you are just spouting political propaganda, and Dad would box your ears if he could hear you."

That's right, she's even invoking my dead father and putting words in his mouth in an attempt to shame me for disagreeing with her. This sickens me.

Is anyone else having experiences like this - family members who were once decent and fair-minded now becoming divisive and insulting?

[QC]

1. GIVE IT A REST!

How many times are you going to post this same thing tonight? It's a great issue to talk about, but there's no need to post five or six identical threads.

[mvd]

2. Duplicate

Continue here -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2003287

mvd
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