I just went through this with one of the few liberal friends I have left. She said she could not understand my bud light boycott post and said it was hateful to gay people. I shared the Chloe Cole story. the Wash U whistleblower story, a story that 1 in 10 kids in one district in PA are now identifying as non binary, info on Gays Against…
I just went through this with one of the few liberal friends I have left. She said she could not understand my bud light boycott post and said it was hateful to gay people. I shared the Chloe Cole story. the Wash U whistleblower story, a story that 1 in 10 kids in one district in PA are now identifying as non binary, info on Gays Against Groomers who are totally against this transgender narrative, the interview with a children's hospital doctor by Christopher Rufo saying this is ruining lives, and the interview with the woman who pioneered the use of puberty blockers who now says she was wrong and it should be stopped. Nothing, nada. She just said, oh you can always find a story to support your point of view, but that does not mean I will ever agree with you. She got the shot a few weeks after she had covid (although she did use the zelenko protocol I gave her) saying 'oh that will protect me against new variants' and nothing I could say could convince her otherwise. She has cancelled plans on my 3 times in the past several months as she is always sick with something. Willful blindness IS a thing.
I also call it “intentional ignorance.” We had several friends who got the first jab, got sick, called us and we said stop and take the supplements that were known to fight this virus, then they would call over and over as if they couldn’t control a thing they did. Get a jab, get sick, call about how sick they were, post it on facebook that they got the jab for their fix, then follow the cycle all over again. They are now very debilitated and we even told them that was part of the jabs, but they have lost all common sense. Its obvious these jabs are also warping their thinking as well. My husbands family did the very same thing! They even had the virus and got over it and still took the jabs. The one brother and his wife took the supplements we take and was over it in under a week when we learned they had it and we took them the supplements!! Talk about dense! Their excuse was they wanted to travel and then their twenty year old sons also took it. That would be the day I would inject myself with something like that just to travel.
I believe these kids pretending to be binary are lost souls who are finding this demented way of life comforting and something to belong to no matter how insane it is. Too many parents allow their kids too much freedom on social media with no regard for the sick influences on them, and too many parents think that allowing this is helping them when it is making them mentally ill with these ideas. They don’t make the time to have constructive activities for their kids because they are too consumed with their lives. We had tight reigns on our sons when it came to social media and occupied their time with lots of constructive activities with us, sports that we attended, and all kinds of outdoor activities. We instilled a strong faith in them and all went to church together. Before our church went astray we were all very active together and an integral part of the functions of the church and the services. They have very strong conservative beliefs to this day and have even guided many of their friends. When some of their friends needed an adult to speak to they would bring them to me for guidance if they felt that was what they needed. It’s amazing how many parents just won’t find the time for them for the important things! My time with them is my greatest treasure to this day and now they are in their thirties. Many of their friends still keep in touch with us, stop over with their families or call to say hello. These are the riches of life in my opinion. We have an open door policy that any of them are welcome at any of our picnics or gatherings that we have for all the holidays.
Oh I agree about the social media influence on the mental illness issues, and a lot of this gender stuff is really a cry for help. We limited screen time to an hour a day during the week and 2 hours a day on the weekends until they got to HS age and by then they were busy with school, jobs, activities and such, and most kids did not have smart phones yet when they graduated in '12 and '13, they got flip phones when they were ~14. Our daughter is a socialist though, bur our son is conservative, but pays little attention to current events. Makes family gatherings tenuous, she is prone to storm out if she gets offended but she eventually comes back around. Anyway, I feel for parents with school age kids, it is a tremendous effort to push back on the culture.
Our children are very close in age. Mine graduated 2009 and 2011. I did the same as you with the cell phones. Did your daughter get her attraction to socialism from college? I’ve had numerous friends have that happen. They will regret this path some day. It’s a shame that they won’t even talk about it in most cases. I just saw an article from a former woke woman who said the woke agenda doesn’t allow for actual discussion or learning about what are fighting. She converted to conservatism once she woke up!
Frankly think it probably started in HS, with some of her teachers, who I knew or suspected were lefties but thought her values she learned at home would over-ride that. We live in what used to be a red city (its turned purple sadly), and I mostly trusted the schools. If I knew now what I know then about what goes on in schools, I would have been more vigilant. She was an excellent student, graduated with 22 hours of college credit, while we had to constantly be on my son about his grades and put most of our focus on him. He also was much more open in talking about what went on in his classes, and we talked politics at the dinner table. I'm sure college sealed the deal though, although she ended up dropping out and changing schools & majors 3X before getting an associates, while my son got a bachelors degree in plastics engineering, although it took him 6 years. I think it's a little bit personality. She is a difficult person, always has been even as a child and butted heads with us constantly over everything. We just don't talk about politics around her these days, although it creeps in occasionally. Her husband is a gun enthusiast and she also bought a gun and they belong to a gun club, suspect he is not as liberal as her and he doesn't talk politics either, but he is a good man and makes her happy. Not sure how you are a 2A supporter and liberal but I have just learned to keep my mouth shut to maintain a civil relationship. And I pray, it's pretty much all I can do. She is a grown adult and gets to live with the consequences of her choices.
My sons had some very liberal teachers, but there was one who was the most outspoken. He tried to spew his rhetoric in class. They had his number and would challenge him about his crazy ideas. All I can say is she is very lucky to have a great mom like you. That is rare to have a liberal mindset and also support the second amendment. Maybe there is some hope after all and maybe some of those fellow gun club members will enlighten her along the way.
Yes, one of my son's history teachers (they both had different teachers as he was in regular classes while she was mostly in advanced, except in math) was also a counselor at the Boy Scout camp he attended and later worked at in the summers and got to know him well. He ended up leaving the district my son's senior year due to what he called too much liberal infiltration, and he said most teachers just keep their mouths shut about politics in the teacher's lounge, if they were conservatives. Should have been a red flag, but I again assumed (wrongly) that most of that was not creeping into the curriculum.
I just went through this with one of the few liberal friends I have left. She said she could not understand my bud light boycott post and said it was hateful to gay people. I shared the Chloe Cole story. the Wash U whistleblower story, a story that 1 in 10 kids in one district in PA are now identifying as non binary, info on Gays Against Groomers who are totally against this transgender narrative, the interview with a children's hospital doctor by Christopher Rufo saying this is ruining lives, and the interview with the woman who pioneered the use of puberty blockers who now says she was wrong and it should be stopped. Nothing, nada. She just said, oh you can always find a story to support your point of view, but that does not mean I will ever agree with you. She got the shot a few weeks after she had covid (although she did use the zelenko protocol I gave her) saying 'oh that will protect me against new variants' and nothing I could say could convince her otherwise. She has cancelled plans on my 3 times in the past several months as she is always sick with something. Willful blindness IS a thing.
I also call it “intentional ignorance.” We had several friends who got the first jab, got sick, called us and we said stop and take the supplements that were known to fight this virus, then they would call over and over as if they couldn’t control a thing they did. Get a jab, get sick, call about how sick they were, post it on facebook that they got the jab for their fix, then follow the cycle all over again. They are now very debilitated and we even told them that was part of the jabs, but they have lost all common sense. Its obvious these jabs are also warping their thinking as well. My husbands family did the very same thing! They even had the virus and got over it and still took the jabs. The one brother and his wife took the supplements we take and was over it in under a week when we learned they had it and we took them the supplements!! Talk about dense! Their excuse was they wanted to travel and then their twenty year old sons also took it. That would be the day I would inject myself with something like that just to travel.
I believe these kids pretending to be binary are lost souls who are finding this demented way of life comforting and something to belong to no matter how insane it is. Too many parents allow their kids too much freedom on social media with no regard for the sick influences on them, and too many parents think that allowing this is helping them when it is making them mentally ill with these ideas. They don’t make the time to have constructive activities for their kids because they are too consumed with their lives. We had tight reigns on our sons when it came to social media and occupied their time with lots of constructive activities with us, sports that we attended, and all kinds of outdoor activities. We instilled a strong faith in them and all went to church together. Before our church went astray we were all very active together and an integral part of the functions of the church and the services. They have very strong conservative beliefs to this day and have even guided many of their friends. When some of their friends needed an adult to speak to they would bring them to me for guidance if they felt that was what they needed. It’s amazing how many parents just won’t find the time for them for the important things! My time with them is my greatest treasure to this day and now they are in their thirties. Many of their friends still keep in touch with us, stop over with their families or call to say hello. These are the riches of life in my opinion. We have an open door policy that any of them are welcome at any of our picnics or gatherings that we have for all the holidays.
Oh I agree about the social media influence on the mental illness issues, and a lot of this gender stuff is really a cry for help. We limited screen time to an hour a day during the week and 2 hours a day on the weekends until they got to HS age and by then they were busy with school, jobs, activities and such, and most kids did not have smart phones yet when they graduated in '12 and '13, they got flip phones when they were ~14. Our daughter is a socialist though, bur our son is conservative, but pays little attention to current events. Makes family gatherings tenuous, she is prone to storm out if she gets offended but she eventually comes back around. Anyway, I feel for parents with school age kids, it is a tremendous effort to push back on the culture.
Our children are very close in age. Mine graduated 2009 and 2011. I did the same as you with the cell phones. Did your daughter get her attraction to socialism from college? I’ve had numerous friends have that happen. They will regret this path some day. It’s a shame that they won’t even talk about it in most cases. I just saw an article from a former woke woman who said the woke agenda doesn’t allow for actual discussion or learning about what are fighting. She converted to conservatism once she woke up!
Frankly think it probably started in HS, with some of her teachers, who I knew or suspected were lefties but thought her values she learned at home would over-ride that. We live in what used to be a red city (its turned purple sadly), and I mostly trusted the schools. If I knew now what I know then about what goes on in schools, I would have been more vigilant. She was an excellent student, graduated with 22 hours of college credit, while we had to constantly be on my son about his grades and put most of our focus on him. He also was much more open in talking about what went on in his classes, and we talked politics at the dinner table. I'm sure college sealed the deal though, although she ended up dropping out and changing schools & majors 3X before getting an associates, while my son got a bachelors degree in plastics engineering, although it took him 6 years. I think it's a little bit personality. She is a difficult person, always has been even as a child and butted heads with us constantly over everything. We just don't talk about politics around her these days, although it creeps in occasionally. Her husband is a gun enthusiast and she also bought a gun and they belong to a gun club, suspect he is not as liberal as her and he doesn't talk politics either, but he is a good man and makes her happy. Not sure how you are a 2A supporter and liberal but I have just learned to keep my mouth shut to maintain a civil relationship. And I pray, it's pretty much all I can do. She is a grown adult and gets to live with the consequences of her choices.
My sons had some very liberal teachers, but there was one who was the most outspoken. He tried to spew his rhetoric in class. They had his number and would challenge him about his crazy ideas. All I can say is she is very lucky to have a great mom like you. That is rare to have a liberal mindset and also support the second amendment. Maybe there is some hope after all and maybe some of those fellow gun club members will enlighten her along the way.
Yes, one of my son's history teachers (they both had different teachers as he was in regular classes while she was mostly in advanced, except in math) was also a counselor at the Boy Scout camp he attended and later worked at in the summers and got to know him well. He ended up leaving the district my son's senior year due to what he called too much liberal infiltration, and he said most teachers just keep their mouths shut about politics in the teacher's lounge, if they were conservatives. Should have been a red flag, but I again assumed (wrongly) that most of that was not creeping into the curriculum.
You dear lady, are the essence of a Christian. I have tremendous admiration for you and look forward to meeting you in the C&C heavenly coffee shop!
I am so touched by your comment. Thank you so much and I too will look forward to meeting you someday in the heavenly coffee shop!
Thank you for sharing! Seems to be common sense, tho today common sense isn’t common.