Posted on 11/29/2016 3:43:40 PM PST by Kaslin
Many Hillary Clinton voters have ceased communicating with friends, and even family members, who voted for Donald Trump. It is so common that The New York Times published a front-page article on the subject headlined, "Political Divide Splits Relationships -- and Thanksgiving, Too."
The article begins with three stories:
"Matthew Horn, a software engineer from Boulder, Colo., canceled Christmas plans with his family in Texas. Nancy Sundin, a social worker in Spokane, Wash., has called off Thanksgiving with her mother and brother. Ruth Dorancy, a software designer in Chicago, decided to move her wedding so that her fiancé's grandmother and aunt, strong Trump supporters from Florida, could not attend."
The Times acknowledges that this phenomenon is one-sided, saying, "Democrats have dug in their heels, and in some cases are refusing to sit across the table from relatives who voted for President-elect Donald J. Trump."
A number of people who voted for Trump called my show to tell me that their daughters had informed them that they would no longer allow their parents to see their grandchildren. And one man sent me an email reporting that his brother-in-law's mother told him that she "no longer had a son."
All of this raises an obvious question: Why is this phenomenon of cutting off contact with friends and relatives so one-sided? Why don't we hear about conservatives shunning friends and relatives who supported Hillary Clinton? After all, almost every conservative considered Clinton to be ethically and morally challenged. And most believed that another four years of left-wing rule would complete what Barack Obama promised he would do in 2008 if he were elected president -- "fundamentally (transform) the United States of America."
In other words, conservatives were not one whit less fearful of Clinton and the Democrats than Democrats were of Trump and Republicans.
Yet virtually no conservatives cut off contact with friends, let alone parents, who supported Clinton.
Here are 10 reasons left-wingers cut Trump voters from their lives.
1. Just like our universities shut out conservative ideas and speakers, more and more individuals on the left now shut out conservative friends and relatives as well as conservative ideas.
2. Many, if not most, leftists have been indoctrinated with leftism their entire lives.
This is easily shown.
There are far more conservatives who read articles, listen to and watch broadcasts of the left and have studied under left-wing teachers than there are people on the left who have read, listened to or watched anything of the right or taken classes with conservative instructors.
As a result, those on the left really believe that those on the right are all SIXHIRB: sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist and bigoted. Not to mention misogynistic and transphobic.
3. Most left-wing positions are emotion-based. That's a major reason people who hold leftist views will sever relations with people they previously cared for or even loved. Their emotions (in this case, irrational fear and hatred) simply overwhelm them.
4. Since Karl Marx, leftists have loved ideas more than people. All Trump voters who have been cut off by children, in-laws and lifelong friends now know how true that is.
5. People on the right think that most people on the left are wrong; people on the left think that most people on the right are evil. Decades of labeling conservative positions as "hateful" and labeling conservative individuals as "sexist," "intolerant," "xenophobic," "homophobic," "racist" and "bigoted" have had their desired effect.
6. The left associates human decency not so much with personal integrity as with having correct -- i.e. progressive -- political positions. Therefore, if you don't hold progressive positions, you lack decency. Ask your left-wing friends if they'd rather their high school son or daughter cheat on tests or support Trump.
7. Most individuals on the left are irreligious, so the commandment "Honor your father and your mother" means nothing to those who have cut off relations with parents because they voted for Trump.
8. Unlike conservatives, politics gives most leftists' lives meaning. Climate change is a good example. For leftists, fighting carbon emissions means saving human existence on Earth. Now, how often does anyone get a chance to literally save the world? Therefore, to most leftists, if you voted for Trump, you have both negated their reason for living and are literally destroying planet Earth. Why would they have Thanksgiving or Christmas with such a person?
9. The left tends toward the totalitarian. And every totalitarian ideology seeks to weaken the bonds between children and parents. The left seeks to dilute parental authority and replace it with school authority and government authority. So when your children sever their bond with you because you voted for Trump, they are acting like the good totalitarians the left has molded.
10. While there are kind and mean individuals on both sides of the political spectrum, as a result of all of the above, there are more mean people on the left than on the right. What other word than "mean" would anyone use to describe a daughter who banished her parents from their grandchildren's lives because of their vote?
I wish none of this were true. But there is a way to prove me wrong: Re-friend your friends and relatives who voted for Trump, and tell everyone who has ended relations with family members -- especially with parents -- to reach out to them and welcome them back into their lives.
(A previous version of this column appeared in the Jewish Journal.)
My observation is that people on the right have accumulated a lifetime of experience covering how to peacefully coexist with family members on the left. People on the left, however, have so little experience with doing the reverse that when forced to do so, they can only wet themselves, throw a tantrum, and storm out of the room, slamming doors as they go.
There are far more conservatives who read articles, listen to and watch broadcasts of the left and have studied under left-wing teachers than there are people on the left who have read, listened to or watched anything of the right or taken classes with conservative instructors.
We have to. The whole point of FR is to read all those articles and post on them :)
Liberalism stunts maturity. That’s why you see far less people go from right to left as you do from left to right.
True but they just turn into nevertrumpers
I can’t criticize this as it would delight me to if a hard-core lefty friend or family member wrote me off....
RATS as usual are behind the curve, i dumped all RAT associations when the Klinton was president
if liberals can’t even get past somewthing likev an election,what would they be like in a family emergancy.......very sad
Have you or anyone noticed how liberals once in a group tell each other how smart they are, and then pat themselves on the backs, while stating anyone who has a different view is dumb, racist, bigoted etc?
I feel blessed. In my family including grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, first cousins and on and on on both me and my wifes side of the family which probably numbers into the hundreds there are nothing but conservatives.
I cannot begin to imagine that there would ever be a liberal in our family.
Yeah, except the little ones will be raised to be good little Nazis by their fascist parents.
Happened to us...I want to scream a not so cheery FU...but wife you says no...it’s her daughter...
The first civil war had brother and fathers killing, sons and brothers why would this civil war be any different. Make no illusions nor mistake we are fighting a civil war for control of this.country. Few shots have been fired but some have, Dallas blm shooter as an example.Trump is the last peaceful means of transferring power away from those who mean to harm us.If he is thwarted by voter fraud the civil war will turn hot period its not really up for discussion one side or the other will fire shots and then the real battle begins we didn’t buy over a hundred million firearms and billions of rounds of ammo to just roll over and be herded in camps.
The mantra of the loser Hillary, the Left, and their medial traitors is: We're divided!
First of all, who divided us? Could it have been YOU, who insisted in racial politics, gender politics, and tearing down every institution that made this nation great?
Second of all, if we are so "divided", then where the hell were YOU all when the Tyrant Obama was oppressing conservatives through the IRS, BLM, and the "Just Us" Dept these last 8 years?
What hypocrites!
Lamentations 3:22-23 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Petulant children, every single one.
CC
Yup.
You got that right.
One great result is having to buy 65 fewer Christmas cards each year since...{:-)
The un-named fiance must be a ball-less liberal nancy boy.
If he lets her pull a stunt like this on his own grandmother and still marries her he might just as well kill himself now.
Once he says 'I Do' he won't even be allowed to use the toilet without permission.
You are more blessed than you can even imagine.
I may be the only conservative in my family. I’m also the only one who ever earned a PhD. Most of my relatives are not college educated. I can’t help but think there is a connection between my drive to succeed and my political leanings.
11. They don’t know how to act when they lose because they always got a trophy.
Plus leftists firmly believe they are highly educated intellectuals. Their knowledge of how we should live our lives and give them our earnings proves them far superior to us “knuckle draggers” in their minds.
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