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He’s a father of a 28-year-old son and he’s hurting. A retired police officer, he proudly voted for Donald Trump every time he ran and never hid his political beliefs from his family. “My son and his wife say that since I’m a fan of Trump they’re no fan of mine and cut me off,” he said. “Now I can’t see my only grandchild who I was so close to. It’s crazy and it’s tragic.”

It’s also increasingly common. The 2024 election spatchcocked the nation, widening a rift that was exposed in 2016 and put in an even sharper gulf four years later. Now, the hyper-partisan politics in the shadow of the 2024 election is breaking the bonds of families to a greater extent than ever before.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It would be more than that if people had a place to go and a way to get there.

Also it's not just trumpism, it's that your family can be intelligent but fall for grifters... or they will be kind 90% of the time and then without prompt will casually say something really fucked up at dinner.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Yup. Best I could do was to go to a friend's for Thanksgiving. Now it's back to hearing the 'all waking hours' fox news and talk radio.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

This thing reads reads like the the person in the middle of the disagreement trying to broker peace.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

If you're not spatchcocking your country, you're just wasting time and ruining it's breasts to save it's thighs, really.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Like a chicken. Where you split the breast so it can lay flat. To illustrate the deepening divide.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Removed our spines and flattened us to allow for more even cooking. If you remember when those dudes in black suits came around and did that to everyone, that's what this is referring to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Gobsmacked, even.

[–] Amoxtli 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Time presents an anecdote as an epidemic. Trump won the electoral and popular vote. Trump haters are a fringe group. To quote Jeebus: "Do you think I have come to bring peace on the earth? No, I tell you, not peace, but division! For from now on, there will be five people divided against each other in one house, three against two, and two against three. It is going to be father against son, and son against father, and mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law!"

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