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i only have my father left, but both my parents were always latin-american leftists and so were most of my siblings.
most of my siblings married maga-white people and their children (as well as their children) are maga and my father and siblings have become maga-sympathetic as a result.
only my sister and i remain leftists and i'm convinced it was entirely because we were the only ones to marry other latinos. we both keep our distance for the rest of our family. it's been 10 years since she's seen the rest of the family and i decided to do the same thing last xmas. we only visit cousins/aunts/uncles that have maintained ties with our latin-american origins and that luckily happens to coincide with our politics.
my father still tries to maintain our relationship; but i suspect that it has more to do w my aunts/uncles prodding him to do so and it didn't start happening until i told them about my decision last xmas.
Fuck man, that sucks. Hang in there.
i appreciate the well wishing, but i don't need it. my closeted grand nephew (assuming that my gaydar is right) and my grand nieces need it.
their parents are several fold more homophobic & sexist than my parents ever were, so i feel sorry for whatever maga/christo-fascist torture that my nephews/nieces will inflict upon them and this is coming from someone who was disowned and dis-invited from the family for years when i came out of the closet.
i was lucky in that i was an adult when it happened and also lucky that i remained employed the last time the economy when to shit like this in 2009, so it forced them to come grovel to me for financial assistance under threat of losing their homes from prolonged unemployment and that forced the lines of communication to open back up again.
i fear that my grand nephew and nieces will not be so lucky.
it's also a bizarre to recognize that the younger generations are so much more conservative than the older generations; the maga influence has infested white american culture like a sickness and it's growing since americans are too indoctrinated in american capitalism and ethos to fight it.
The media are deeply insidious and dangerous. What needs to be done, is cutting off access to Twitter, to Facebook, to any of those media that sow hatred.
those are just tips of the iceberg; american indoctrination has a bigger impact.