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Dear Americans, how do you go back to normal after such an election campaign? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The atmosphere is so heated, and the statements are getting more and more extreme. Let's just assume Harris wins the election. After a campaign like this, how could you ever have a normal relationship with your pro-Trump neighbor/father-in-law/Uncle/Barber or what ever again?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, thats the thing. Once the mask is off it can't be put back on. My relations have cooled with the Trump supporters I know. At least they stopped putting signs out in the neighborhood.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. I've simply stopped associating with Trump supporters. My life doesn't have room for that kind of hate, so i cut them out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a lot of empathy for people who have beloved relatives like fathers or brothers that are caught in the mind trap. No one really WANTS to cut ties with kin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My last remaining ties with them are my parents. I know they're not hateful people - they raised me to be a loving person. Their brainwashing has taken the form of simply not trusting legitimate news sources, which is the hardest kind to overcome.

How do you reason with someone who doesn't trust any sources of information?