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My father's side of the family is super, duper, ultra hardcore "conservative" Trump-loving "Christian".
They love, love, love to bring up politics at every conceivable opportunity. It's one of those situations where I have loathed going for visits for decades and sometimes even making the obligate check-in calls plays heck on my "nerves".
But in the past few years when the conversation turns political, I've started hearing big shifts in tone when it comes to opinions on the ultra wealthy in the USA. The last time I was at a family gathering around the holidays, they were berating the Luigi situation and talking about how disgusting it was that anybody would do that, let alone condone it.
That conversation literally did a 180 once I pointed out how it was interesting that the school shooting that happened that same day (or maybe it was a day or two before/after) had received a fraction of the coverage. And it was interesting how murders of people who aren't rich don't get that kind of coverage. Basically, when people like you and me get killed for whatever reason, you don't hear about it. But a rich person is shot and suddenly it's national news and top billed news for weeks. Wonder why that is?
And those conservative "I hate liberals and liberals should be shot" relatives of mine were in complete agreement.
So, whether you think it sucks or not, you need to know that if you actually want change and actually want things to improve, you're going to have to forgive and you're going to have to find common ground with people that you otherwise disagree with on a fundamental level. Fuck you if you say otherwise, you are wrong. And I don't say that lightly.