While I’ve certainly seen a lot of posts and cases about the other side of the coin. And not to dismiss this. I’ve seen plenty of stories and accounts of people who have lost family members to the cult of the “cheeto man” himself.
But my mom has gone complete bonkers since 2016 for an entirely different reason. Shes obsessed with hating Trump. From 2016-2021 it was like 99% of what she would talk about. Hell, its gotten a tiny bit better but its still like 50% on a good day of what she talks about at any given time still. During the Mueller era, she had CNN practically 24/7. So much so that one of the headlines literally burned into her TV. She would post and show anyone she talked to anti Trump memes, songs, etc. People started disconnecting from her and she just had this “Well I guess they dont like what I havr to say! They’re Trumpers anyways.” Pretty much lacking any self awareness into how unhinged the election made her and fully leaning into it.
This is a woman who went from not voting and not really caring for either side of the political aisle to running for and becoming a school board member. She was so insufferable in this position that she took a 4 year break because no one liked her, ran again, and resigned because no one on the board or at the school likes her.
Fortunately, I havent lived with her for the most part since COVID, aside from like 3 months when I was in between apartments due to a breakup at the time. But I do still love her and miss the old her from before Trump became president so I keep in semi touch with her.
But I had a conversation with her recently about this election that makes me question the sanity of most of these boomer libs. Despite knowing Im not voting for kamala or Trump, she keeps pushing me. Texting “your vote counts. Theres only 2 candidates” over and over. Even though I literally live halfway across the country from her in California. Shes running short of harassing me to vote for Kamala. And then out of the blue she calls me literally just to talk about this. Spews the same old zionist bullshit that “we should fund Israel, its just Bibi whos bad!” And that “Israel-Palestine is just ONE issue anyways”. And so on the usual crap about J6 and shit.
I said something like “kamala and trump are both evil, Trump is just honest about it”.
And she literally goes off “YOU THINK TRUMP IS HONEST! YOU MUST BE DRINKING THE KOOL AID SON! DONALD TRUMP IS ANYTHING BUT HONEST.”
Basically calling me a Trumper for the mere suggestion of Trump being honest about something. Much less, honest about him being evil. Before hanging up and saying I have nothing better to do. Despite her bothering me about the subject, her calling me to argue, and her lack of being able to talk about much of anything else.
Does anyone else have any stories of crazy lib relatives post 2016? I feel like I cant be the only one.
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I legitimately don’t care. It seems like the creator of the thread expressed boundaries and his mom can’t respect that. Or what, just because his mom is his mom gives his mom excuse to walk all over that?
I havent disconnected with my mom over politics ever. I have taken breaks from speaking with her for entirely unrelated reasons. Granted, she has a tendency to be overwhelming and self centered and this might reflect in her politics but Id never go no contact with anyonr over politics alone unless they were outright nazis.
Sorry it just seem liked from reading into your post it seemed like a boundary of sorts.
that definitely makes sense. sorry if i was over the line there.
What boundaries? And how is OP being walked over? OP can literally just not reply to texts that have to do.with Trump. Just don’t engage on that subject. An adult who.doesnt live either their parents will see them.sge and decline mentally which this seems like a symptom of, I would try to be around for my mother more if she took such a sudden turn. Abandoning her would only leave her more isolated. Literally all she is doing is being annoying.
The boundary seemed to be to just stop talking so much about Trump. But Vernon_Tennessee clarified and that doesn’t seem to be it. Besides you don’t need to tell me that an adult will see their parent decline. Since I’m seeing my dad drink himself to death and I saw my mom decline before she died. But I kind of got upset because again, my mom was starting to take a lot of shit out on me, especially by getting very transphobic towards me before she died.
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What a weird question. No I didn’t! I even stuck to her to the very end on the day she died. But I can’t forget some of the hurtful things she said.
So why should Op?
Excuse me? Are you seriously trying to use what I went through to justify your point? Especially when OP and his relationship with his mom is a lot different than mine? And it’s up to OP to decide what he wants to do with his relationship, not any of us?
I’m saying my point remains justified BECAUSE your situation is so different