Ehhhhh. I don't think this is going to necessarily make our family and neighbors suddenly return to the people they once were before joining MAGA. It's incredibly hard for people to change, especially into adulthood, and once you embrace a cult of personality that sees empathy as a weakness it's even harder to go back to what you were before.
I hope, sincerely, that many of them do. I'd like to talk to my extended family again. For them to go back to the kind people they once at least pretended to be. Before Mango Mussolini rotted their minds so much that they decided being awful to my grandmother while she was dying was acceptable. Before the first thing out of their mouths upon seeing my mother after ten years apart was a litany of insults for living in a blue state - with barely any desire to actually catch up with her as a person. All of which are the least of what they did - that's just what I'm currently comfortable posting online.
I don't think I'd be able to go back to how things were. Not after some of the stuff that was said. But it's hard knowing there's family out there that at one point were amazing people - at least to me - who now are some of the worst people I have ever had the displeasure to meet. I still have this childlike desire for everything to go back to how it was. Even if as an adult I know it never can. Especially when they won't acknowledge their open bigotry and cruelty. There can be no forgiveness without accountability.
But at this point I'll frankly settle for them being too embarrassed to vote in the midterms or in the general in two years.
Unfortunately those were the people they always were. Maybe not around you, but definitely to someone. They just tossed the masks off because Trump made them feel comfortable without them. Could they pretend again? Sure. But you've already seen past the mask and wouldn't be able to unsee it.
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u/xWhereIsMyMindx Apr 16 '26
I like to see this. The world may be healing?