Could you elaborate? I do wonder what’s going on inside their heads.
OK, but first of all I want y'all to know that I have done all I can to stay neutral with my family since COVID. I mean, my brother's wife is STILL to this day injecting the vaxx into veterans at her hospital - yet never ONCE did she or my brother actually ask what it was that I did for a living at one time (actual gain-of-function research, working with a few of the jerks who probably created that virus), even though I told my brother a few stories. Probably because my SIL told him and all her grown kids NOT TO TALK TO ME after she read the article that SOTT posted. It's been a hard road, but I've tried to stay right down the middle this whole time and never brought up the subject again with them.
With my mom, she's been completely deluded into following the leftist BS for at least twenty years, because she basically lost her ability to read and her entire life exists around her 96" TV set. Her favorite shows are the music challenges which prominently feature much of the LGBTQ+ crowd. She got "Greenbaumed" by her own TV (most of those years I lived 800 miles away so I had no input). All the same, I have gently told her I am there for her, and to please be careful NOT to "choose a side" because if you do, YOU LOSE.
Well, she lost. Her hate for Trump knows no bounds. To be honest she's hated him far before he ever did "The Apprentice", but she completely lost the plot in 2016 and constantly refers to him as "The Orange Man". No matter that I recently pointed out that her "hero" Biden got the "orange tint" treatment at the Trump/Biden debate AFTER so many called for his removal. She's all in on getting Trump out at any cost. Her entire being revolves around getting him gone because it's probably the only thing that will make her feel better about her life, which revolves completely around TV. BTW she's almost 78 and has been a Democrat her entire life, so the programming runs quite deep.
Now she is seeing that her hero Biden isn't one, and she's taken to calling in sick to work (she works the front desk at my brother's auto shop a few days a week). Seeing this happen with Biden and Trump has broken her resolve. She's losing her will to live, all because she put all of her being into hating someone she's never met, let alone personally knew. I don't know how I could have helped her; she told me years ago she'd NEVER let me tell HER what to think - so I didn't. It's very sad, but it's all been her own choices.
I tried where I could to get a word in, but she got so mad at me she hasn't even asked me over to help with dinner for almost three years, even though I also helped her with her yard work. She's living completely within her own mind and her TV, and it's taking her down into hell while I watch. All I can do is love her and let her go, with maybe a nudge here and there. I hope I'm alone in this struggle but I'm sure there's others here who can understand.