I made a dumb funny at my nutjob cousin

[vercetti2021]

Shes about 20 years older than me. She keeps telling me when I hit my mid 30s I'll be conservative. I responded with you said that when I hit my mid 20s I would be. Still wasn't, then you said I would be when I hit my 30s. Still didn't happen. So now you're saying my mid 30s? And when that doesn't happen. Are you gonna push it back like QAnon keeps pushing back the great plan? That pissed her off pretty quickly.



This argument started because I began HRT and she thinks I'm mentally ill.

[TlalocW]

1. I don't do politics at family gatherings

And apparently my brother-in-law's step-dad never got the message. He has what I call a televangelist smile - holier-than-thou smirk and thinks through some sort of combination of being old and religious, he's always right. I was crashing after Thanksgiving dinner when he thought he could ambush me - I'm the most outspoken liberal in the family, and my sister and his stepson are the most conservative so we run the gamut. I can't remember what it was, but because I do read about politics incessantly I basically Gish-Galloped him, first explaining that whatever he said to me was the FOX News version of things, then explained what the actual version was, and then explained why the actual version was actually a good thing. I finished and leaned my head back on the couch and closed my eyes but kept them open a little, and the smirk disappeared from his face, and he stalked off.

TlalocW

[vercetti2021]

8. Haha

Classic!

[abqtommy]

24. I don't do family gatherings. I prefer to associate with a better class of people.

[Freddie]

2. I'm about 30 years older than you

Still hasn’t happened. Probably gotten more liberal over the years.

[GoCubsGo]

25. Same here.

I have noticed that in my sisters, as well. They're way more liberal than they were 20 years ago. Only my brother has gotten right-wing looney with age, but he's a special case. Retired law enforcement. They fucked him up good. He wasn't raised that way.

[LizBeth]

3. 60 here, didn't happen but my father never thought it would. Now, my mom said when I hit puberty I

wouldn't get along with her. I did. Then she said I was just running a couple years late, and at 18 told her, still didn't happen.

So, it is funny but irritating someone thinking they can define you

[KentuckyWoman]

4. If caring about my neighbors is mental illness

Count me in.

[canetoad]

5. Mentally ill because you started HRT?

Or mentally ill DESPITE HRT?

[vercetti2021]

7. I'm ill because I'm trans

She's anti-LGBT

[canetoad]

13. Cousins are the kind of rellies

That you only need to see every so often. Don't argue. Smile beatifically and luxuriously scratch your genitals.

[Irish_Dem]

6. I have the same political beliefs I had as a teenager.

A liberal, progressive democrat.

Don't ask how many decades ago I was a teenager.

[Dan]

9. Sometimes when you use initials - some of them are not familiar to some of us old folks.

Had to look it up to understand the context of the last sentence (smile). Good luck with the HRT.

[PurgedVoter]

10. One simple question I asked myself made me a liberal

I grew up my entire life hearing about conservative values. I decided to list them. That was nearly fifty years ago. I still can't name a single virtue that conservatives will put above their own personal convenience.

[DFW]

14. I am quite conservative, but as defined in English, not by right wing Fox pundits

I am your classic conservative, at least as defined in a dictionary of the English language (as opposed to Republicanese).

I still work for the same outfit that recruited me out of college in 1975. I have been with the same wonderful woman since 1974. We have raised two solid, intelligent children who have grown up, think independently, did well in their respective colleges, and have jobs in which they earn their own living, have stable, long-term relationships, and are well-respected in their chosen fields.

I am risk-averse, and do not like to make rash, un-thought-out decisions. I have no debts. I have no addictions, not even to alcohol, religion, gambling, or nicotine. My favorite American philosopher is the 18th century Thomas Jefferson.

I am the epitome of “conservative.” Why am I a Democrat? Simple: I do not believe that having a different ethnic background, belief, or income makes one a superior or an inferior being to myself.

On Fox Noise or National Hate Radio, and in the right wing print press, a "Conservative" means a right-wing Republican. But just like wading into the ocean doesn't make you a fish, Republicans hijacking the term "conservative" (small c) doesn't mean they get to re-write the dictionary.

[Hortensis]

18. :) for your kind of conservative. nt

[DFW]

20. I refuse to let myself be defined by a propaganda outlet mislabling itself as a news broadcaster.

If an animal has feathers, looks like a turkey, struts like a turkey, and makes a noise like a turkey, then even if you call it "Fox," it's still a turkey.

[Hortensis]

21. Right. And I believe in personal responsibility and

being kind of animals, but who doesn't? For all the noise, neither are politically defining.

[DFW]

22. Exactly.

Si signora!

[Walleye]

23. 😎😁 Sounds like it's similar to the way Joe Biden lives his life. Good job.

My older brother is like that. He is a solid liberal Democrat. Me, I have many regrets but I’ve always been a liberal. Maybe because I’ve always had sympathy for the oddball. I remember my first political stance was when I wrote an essay in school against capital punishment. I have never wavered on that position. Thanks for your story. I really have a hard time understanding these right wing nuts.

[DFW]

11. I was 16 when Bobby and MLK were shot

My views haven‘t changed much since then.

I have one cousin in Tennessee who I hear is a rabid Republican, but I haven‘t seen him since 1994. The rest of my side of the family is a solid wall of Democrats. My wife‘s side is either solid Merkel wing of the CDU (her parents‘ generation) or SPD with some Grüne/Bündnis 90 thrown in.

Any political discussions are usually over headlines, since most of our opinions are dully in agreement. Among us all, there is one who likes fancy meals and vacations while making the least money. That person has blown much of what they got in the way of a modest inheritance, and is now living off of stimulus money. The rest of the American side of my family is solidly Biden/Obama/Clinton, depending upon in which decade you asked them.

[DanieRains]

12. How Can One Be A Conservative When They Are Extinct

It is a meaningless word, used to make confused people with no soul, conscience, or empathy feel good about watching others suffer.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. One could publish a dictionary just with words Republicans have rendered meaningless.

KY.......

[DFW]

16. That's easy. They just change the meaning of the word to suit their prejudices.

The word isn't extinct at all. Webster's publishes my dictionary, not Rupert Murdoch or Sean Hannity. I don't choose my words according to their perverted definitions (see my post #14).

I still find the old saying to be true: walking inside a church doesn't make you a Christian any more than walking inside a garage makes you a car.

[Hortensis]

19. Roughly 1/2 the human race is conservative by personality type.

Personality is genetically linked and we're born leaning liberal or conservative, though a few may be "other." Effects of "nurture" on development of personality, and thus on formation of sociopolitical attitudes, are believed to usually be stronger, though.

Short form, conservatives are us, every bit as much as liberals are. We, all of us, need to put a stop to the kind of mass mindfucking that can corrupt and weaponize whole demographics. QAnon, which can infect both conservative and liberal minds, is teaching people in dozens of nations that can be done on a huge scale, without confusing the issue with a political party label.

[betsuni]

17. It's like how I always said I'd never have children and everybody said I'd change my mind.

Nope.

[Binkie The Clown]

26. People told me that too. I'm 75 and still not a conservative. Hang in there. nt