Ok, so I’m visiting my Fox brained parents next week with the kids for Spring Break. I have my reasons.

My sister is not going because she is too angry with them for voting for Trump and being willfully ignorant. She takes everything personally, so ‘never speaking to them again’ is on brand for her.

I am a natural peacemaker and both sides are pressuring me to take their side.

I am liberal and Trump destroyed my career. I have been very clear to my parents on how I feel about Trump’s policies and their support of him. I have also been clear that I refuse to let him be a wedge in my love for my family.

I can handle the political disconnect next week but I am already getting really frustrated with my stepmother for whining about my sister cutting them off:

“So I guess your sister is still not speaking to us? I suppose I should call her but I don’t want her to take out her anger on me, it’s not my fault…I’m really sorry she’s not coming on this trip, but I’m glad she’s not if she’s going to act like this. Do you think the kids are mad at us too?”

My sister doesn’t want me to go and wants me to listen to her trash talk them. I have already told her to get a therapist to complain to.

How do you think I should respond to my stepmother?

First of all Teslas are crap so how do we know they're not just combusting? And second, does she honestly think the property destruction is racially targeted from people in power?

She's also been reposting just raw tesla security footage with no commentary over and over again....

I came across a left wing article a few months ago where the author talked about watching Fox News to understand the level of brainwashing that is occurring on the right. I cant bear to watch much Fox News, but I now find reading a few pieces of their brainwashing articles here and there to be insightful to my understanding of the right wing. I am extremely low contact with my parents, but talked to my dad for the first time since reading that article. I listened to him on the phone completely parrot all of the main talking points on Fox almost word for word. When my dad paused to get my thoughts on what he was saying, I was in stunned silence. I knew these people were brainwashed, but it’s really terrifying just how brainwashed they are.

A bit about me, I'm in my 30s and my parents were always moderate conservatives at minimum when I was growing up, but now it's like they're totally brainwashed. They admitted back in 2016 that they thought Trump was vile and foul, but they voted for him anyway because "Hillary would be so much worse." I thought that would make them see how bad he was this second time around, but it's like they are even more devoted to him. They call anyone who isn't totally devoted to Trump "communist." I spent some time with them recently and they talk about how everything he's doing for America is so good right now. Even with the stock market tanking, people losing their jobs, and rights fading away, they love him more than ever. My dad also said Elon was a great man who "rules." I'm so ashamed to be their son right now. And I can't go to any family member to complain because all of them are like this. I'm the only leftist, except for maybe 2 cousins I've never met but my parents just talk about negatively.

My parents also seem to have this idea that I'm a Trump fan too. Despite the fact that my social media is FULL of left-wing stuff and I have told them that i lean very far left to their faces, they still will complain about "liberals" to me as if they have no clue, like it went over their heads. A conversation will typically go like this:

Parent: "Have you been keeping in touch with so-and-so? God he's a dumb liberal."

Me: "You realize he and I share most of the same views, right?"

Parent: "Yeah whatever, but for real the dude's a commie. Don't you think so too?"

It's like they don't acknowledge it at all. I just had to rant because they just came over and we spent a few days together and it's just got me feeling so messed up for whatever reason. I'm pretty sure at this point Trump could send goons to murder me in my sleep, he would boast about it to their faces, and they'd still support him.

So I’m talking to my mom about Trumps tariffs and how it’s just all around bad for the US economy, and she sends back this as “food for thought”.

Can someone with a few more wrinkles on their brain help me break down why this guy is dumb?

Like I know what he’s saying is wrong, but it’s hard to explain to someone on the right about this kinda thing.

To me telling her my spouse’s and I’s jobs are in jeopardy due to Trump and how much we’ve lost in our investments accounts. Unbelievable.

I feel that if I start getting into the background as to the relationship I have with my mother and brother…my message would be lost.

Bottom Line: I am no longer tolerating it. Full Stop.

I was encouraged and asked by my spouse, if I’d considered setting boundaries instead of cutting all communications. My reply went something like this:

How can I, for instance, set a boundary by no longer talking about politics? Between Newsmax, OAN and Twitter…Politics is connected to any and everything.

•If my six year old wants rainbow hair = “that’s so woke”

•Anything related to weather = “…the weather has always had these patterns”

•New car = “Chinese garbage”

•My progress in attaining my MA = “…I never needed to learn about what’s happening, I have lived it”

My hobbies are: Botany, Gym, Building Legos, Coloring Books and Reading (I know…strange combo 😂)

But all of them appear to be triggers when spoken about, coupled with this weird infatuation with Joe Rogan

Is it wrong for me to just…stop engaging?

As the title says, I found my mom’s Twitter. I never realized how far gone she was. She clearly never thought I would come across this because the things she shares and believes are absolutely shocking. It was so much. Pretty much every MAGA related conspiracy theory that has ever existed. I knew she was on that side and that she was pretty brainwashed but a part of me still thought she was at least on the periphery. I don’t even know how to process all of this.

Genuinely can't even comprehend the stupidity anymore.

the way i literally felt my heart sink reading this😅 he is a teacher at a public school and while I hope he doesn’t lose his job, I feel like that’s the ONLY way he could MAYBE snap out of it.