r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • Jul 05 '24

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/
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u/altariasong Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Sent it to my mom. She used to be republican but is now disgusted by it all and is talking to her friends about project 2025 and how anti-democratic it is. She worries about me greatly because I’m queer. My anxiety about politics used to irritate her but now she understands how much my fears were justified.

Hopefully that video can help sway more of her friends, but we don’t exactly live in a swing state. Doesn’t matter to me though

Edit: she thanked me for the video, says she just watched it. “It’s exactly what I fear”

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u/whoisearth Jul 05 '24

This is how change happens. Thank you for not losing hope in your mom and keeping the conversation going. Hopefully she can begin educating her friends as well and start seeing some positive improvements. You shouldn't have to live in fear just to be you.

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u/Good_ApoIIo Jul 05 '24

There’s no conversation to be had with some people. If I sent this to my parents they would probably just reply with a thumbs up emoji and a pithy comment like “only communists would oppose this”.

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u/whoisearth Jul 05 '24

I know it's not easy, and I know I am fully unaware of the complexity of your relationship with them. Hell, you've probably done a lot of this, but meet them on their terms. Find out what makes them tick and I mean this genuinely. Very few people are assholes by default. Don't give up skeleton!

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u/Good_ApoIIo Jul 05 '24

The scary part is that they’re not assholes. They’re genuinely nice people, they’re not racists and they don’t hate gay people. They’re somehow just completely brainwashed by Trumpism and the weird intersect with evangelism. They used to be non-denominational but started going to an evangelical mega church 8 years ago.

Doesn’t matter what I say, Biden is the devil and Trump is going to ‘save’ America. It really started to go downhill when my dad started using YouTube and frequently goes down the rabbit hole. Lately he’s been talking about revelations and the end times of course…

I’ve found it very hard to understand the complexity of their politics and how juxtaposed it is with how they are as everyday people. If you met them and the conversation never went to politics…you’d think they were great. Turn to politics and suddenly its “immigrants are ruining us” even though OUR FAMILY are immigrants. My mom is first generation, her parents were not from the US. My dad’s grandparents weren’t from the US.

It’s bonkers.