The poll is very odd. I don't know what to pick in it.
I don't really *hate* many people. I am extremely judgemental about most Republicans. I guess I hate trump but I don't know, I dont have a lot of hate in me for people. I judge most Republicans very poorly. I think I hate Matt Gaetz more than Trump.
As for if I hate all Republicans, no. My parents are Republicans. It's incredibly hard. They have become cultists because they are brainwashed by fox news. I've written about it before here. They didn't used to be like this. They were democrats for most of my life and then around 9/11 and the aftermath they left the democratic party and became heavily obsessed with fox. They hated Obama, largely because of quiet racism. It took me a while to figure that out. And then Fox just took them down the rabbit hole, which they willingly fell into.
Now they're both basically brainwashed by fox and addicted to it like a drug that they need more of. My one solace is that they don't have Facebook thank god.
It's sad too because both of my parents are smart people. My dad's got a fucking phd and my mom's not stupid. They're part of a cult.
So no I don't hate them. They're excellent grandparents to their grand children and they've always been wonderful parents to me, raising me correctly to be tollerant, patient, kind, inquisitive. Which is why it's hard to see them like this now. I told my mom recently about how she idolizes a person who she raised her kids to he the exact opposite of, that Trump is everything you raise your kids not to be. It's hard to get through to them. We had a big argument over the summer about politics and now they don't go there with me because I'm prepared with facts and can argue against their points using their own logic... Which is destabilizing to them because they believe in these caricatures of liberals, so the comments that my mother makes that she thinks 'triggee the libs' are just like irrelevant to me and I stick to the facts. I made a point to my mother about how her brain is so poisoned by fox, we'll be talking about something mundane and she'll make some bizarre political remark and I had to be like, mom, what is wrong with your brain that this conversation we're having caused you to make that bizarre remark? And she was sort of bewildered that I woildnt think the thing she just did is *normal.* The problem for her is that she thinks that the world of fox news is a real world... Not a television performance that's produced to evoke anger and hate.
But it's not easy. We used to he able to talk about current events and we can't anymore. Anytime I go over their house if I turn the TV on it's tuned to fox news. They weren't always like this, which is sad to me. Still we sort of have a moratorium on politics and when something comes up I give them a knowing look like -- "watch your tongue because you know I'm not suffering fools anymore" sort of thing.
Family is hard. I had the quintessential "racist uncle" growing up and we all made fun of him, when he wasn't around *for being racist.* I had to tell my parents that they're like Uncle Mike these days. Incoherent, disrespectful, rude, making bizarre comments. And that was sort of bewildering to my mother (she hates this guy, he knocked up her sister 50+ years ago and she's always hated him).
They need cult deprogramming. I don't hate them, but i pity them.
