Watching a woman rant about how the only “right” thing to do is to cut her parents out of her life because they don’t have her political views made me sick. It made me miss my parents all over again.
More than anything else the left has done to my country, the unending hate dividing families is the most evil. It seems to flow in only one direction, from the left against the right.
My parents were right leaning until late in their lives. They drank the Obama Kool-Aid and were lost. They talked about the Republican candidates as evil, horrible people. The only “news” they watched was CNN.
During Trump’s first term, it got even worse. It was a constant repeat of CNN talking points and hating on Trump.
I quickly learned to keep my opinions to myself in political areas. I loved my parents. Their political stance did not change that, nor did it split them from me.
My wife has been fighting this for longer than I have. Since her father passed, most of the family older than her have gone full TDS. She doesn’t express her opinion.
Because I am who I am, I don’t need to talk to my friends every day. A year can go by, and then we are together as if it was only yesterday. One of my friends, and Ally’s best friend, contracted TDS during Trump’s first term.
We continued to be “friends,” but couldn’t talk freely around her because of the hate that spewed from her when anything Trump was mentioned. The reason she became a Trump hater was because of Dobbs. According to her, her reproductive care had been stripped from her and her daughters.
The state laws didn’t change. Her access to abortion hadn’t changed. Her daughters’ access to abortion hadn’t changed. She is postmenopausal, so she can’t get pregnant. Her eldest daughter is married and busy making babies. Her youngest isn’t sexually active with men.
For her, the issue was that if her daughter was raped, and if her daughter conceived, and if her daughter wanted an abortion, and if her daughter lived in a state that had banned abortions for rape survivors, her daughter would have to leave that state to get an abortion. Because the Supreme Court ruled that abortion was a state issue, it was Trump’s fault for putting his pick of Justices on The Court.
After Trump was elected to his second term, she posted that if you voted for Trump, she couldn’t be friends with you. She has been written off. Not because she has TDS, but because she kicked us to the curb for not agreeing with her political views.
I’m watching postings from people in New Hampshire on local groups. Everything “bad” is Trump’s fault. The school system’s business administrator appears to be responsible for the school system being short more than $5 million. It’s Trump and the MAGAot’s fault for not wanting to fund schools.
It is MAGA’s fault for electing a Republican governor. Nobody bothers to notice that the elected school board, which oversees the business administrator, were all elected by them. And they all appear to be Democrats.
But the blame goes to the Republicans.
If you are anti-gun, I don’t hate you. If you want to take my rights away, then I will fight you. Hate requires too much energy to engage in. Yet it seems to drive the left.
There was a church shooting. As soon as the media reported it, the left started yelling it was MAGAots. They blamed me and you because we own guns. And they hate on us.
I’m reading The Red Badge of Courage with one of my ESL students. The civil war pitted brother against brother, father against son, neighbor against neighbor, but the level of hate for family and friends didn’t seem to be there. Yes, soldiers and civilians were disgusted by the other team, but I haven’t read about brothers disowning each other because of the side they chose.
And the left continues the battle to fill our lives with hate. They keep telling us who to hate, and the left listens and falls in line.
The division between leftist (not liberals, leftists. There is a big difference.) and conservative is getting deeper every day. For some reason, leftists think they are correct, and should be in charge. Their ideas are the best, and questioning them is murdering a small part of their very existence.
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I have a buddy who is pretty conservative, and actually supported Trump’s re-election, but has soured on Trump because of some actions he’s taken. I do not realistically expect anyone to like everything a politician does, so not a biggie. However, he will read an article from a mainstream news outlet, and I will read the same article. He will walk away with the impression Trump is corrupt, he is trying to become dictator for life, he is illegally mobilizing the military against US Citizens, etc… I will read the same article, and need to replace my BS meter because it pegged into the red so hard.
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Politics can be dividing. It really should be unifying. Both sides of the political aisle want the same thing in most situations. Lower crime, better standards of living, peace, etc.. It is how we go about achieving those things that causes the problem. One side thinks a strong central government imposing its will is the right path, the other side thinks free market ideas work better, even if the results are not ideal for everyone. Harmony might happen if both sides realize the other side has a few good ideas, and a blend of both will likely be the correct path.
“Both sides of the political aisle want the same thing in most situations.”
I used to think this was the case, but talking to a fair number of left-inclined friends and family, I think it no longer. Sure, you may both want less crime, but given the choice between crime and punishing criminals, they’ll take the crime. I know a woman who, when her son mentioned possibly being transgender to her immediately celebrated him as her daughter and helped him transition, which he now immensely regrets. Her thought was that she could be on the vanguard of a new civil rights movement, I’ve heard her say this. There are people who think that you should be taxed for owning anything, that you have no right to give inheritance to your family, and who will, if an armed robber breaks into your house and starts stealing things, sympathize with the armed robber sooner than they’ll sympathize with you for protecting your family or property. They’ll probably sympathize with him even if you let him walk right over you.
They do not value what I value, they do not want what I want. Their values and worldview taken to their reasonable conclusions leads to a world I regard with horror and disgust. I’m not sure these two things can be harmonized.
politics just shows you the ones most easily brainwashed and programmed.
moonbats are best left alone. i had friends who thought it was a good idea to try and convert them to our side.
they learned.
once you show your true self to me I make my choice and move on.
abortion and hate are the only things leftists have to run on.
1) Liberal Women and the Destruction of American Civilization By Steve McCann, 02Sep2025
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/liberal_women_and_the_destruction_of_american_civilization.html
There is a direct correlation between the accelerated decline of American civilization over the past forty years and the rise of the outsized influence of unenlightened and supercilious liberal women.
2) If ‘words are violence,’ why won’t the left own theirs? – by Gates Garcia, 02sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/if-words-are-violence-why-wont-the-left-own-theirs
When a shooter scrawled ‘Kill Trump’ and fired on a Catholic church, the left didn’t blame extremist political rhetoric — they blamed the rifle. Then they moved on.
3) Dems Resent Noem Being Safe, but Hid Ashli Babbitt’s Killer for Seven Months
https://susandaniels.substack.com/p/dems-resent-noem-being-safe-but-hid
When a shooter scrawled ‘Kill Trump’ and fired on a Catholic church, the left didn’t blame extremist political rhetoric — they blamed the rifle.
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Nobody can conclusively prove that the rifle didn’t write on itself while the shooter wasn’t looking. Evil Black Rifles are Evil!
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The question is, how does the Left reconcile that “the rifle” also seemed to hate Israel and support Palestine? Shouldn’t that make AR-15s more acceptable to the Left?
If you base your life on political affiliations, you dont have a life. You are a droid.
Solid article all around, but this paragraph spoke to me:
If you are anti-gun, I don’t hate you. If you want to take my rights away, then I will fight you. Hate requires too much energy to engage in. Yet it seems to drive the left.
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Amen, brother. Fight when it’s time to fight, but fights eventually end. Hate doesn’t end; it’s all-consuming, 24/7, no days off, forever … until the person makes the conscious choice to put the hate down.
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I don’t have the energy for that, on top of everything else I have to do in life. All the Leftists and TDS sufferers I see have one thing in common: That’s all they have. They don’t have families to care for (it’s often the old or the young; their children are grown and gone or they haven’t had children), or jobs which hold their attention, or hobbies to siphon their energy into something productive. Leftism and TDS define their entire lives, to the point that I worry what they’ll do when Trump is termed-out and won’t be President anymore. What will replace TDS when the ‘T’ is no longer relevant?
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I expect that not everyone in the country will agree with me 100% no matter how well I explain my views. And that’s fine; I don’t hate people who disagree with me. I expect that I will have to fight for my rights, even the ones which should be protected and off-limits, and that’s fine, too; it’s still not a cause for hating the other side. When the proverbial fighting is over, I go back to my family, my normal job, and my normal life, because at some point, the fight WILL be over — or at least paused long enough for some semblance of peace. Hate won’t.
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I could choose to hate — goodness knows the Left has given us more than enough cause for it — but that would be all I ever do. I have too many other things that are too important to spend every minute and every ounce of energy hating my political opponents, to the detriment of everything else.
those filled with hate have only hate
most, not all, are products of gubmint funded programs. no family, no job, lots of time to be brainwashed to hate everything that isnt just like them.
its like hating the weather, you cant do anything about it but let it consume your entire being.
We the People are too busy living our best life to bother with them…
The enemies of all that is Good and Decent in the world use hatred because it is such a powerful force. I disagree entirely with most of the intended message here. Hatred is powerful, and so I will use it against the soulless inhuman monsters (sorry, I meant to say ‘liberals’ and ‘democrats,’ but auto-correct did its job), just as they have spent DECADES ON END leveling it against me and mine. I will not give up hatred against the LGBT++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “community” of “people” who rape, mutilate, and murder children for fun. I will not give up hatred against tyrannical monsters who kidnap, torture, and murder innocents for daring to support a politician they disagree with. I will not give up hatred against those who have proven over, and over, AND OVER that they are WORTHY of that hatred. Not until everyone last of the monsters is in Hell where it belongs.