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Narcissistic conservative parent Facebook is wild
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It’s wild how these people just can’t fathom that they are the problem.
Every once in awhile these sort of posts make me introspective, they say almost exactly the same as my opinion about what I think of far right conservatives. Then I remember I'm not the one oppressing people and want to accept everyone as long as they don't bring intolerance.
Something to remember I think is that just because people on both sides of an issue talk the same way about the other side, does not inherently mean that both or neither have a point.
This is one thing that I find very odd: you'll see posts like this of obvious pieces of shit but the moment you start talking about being intolerant on intolerant people, or of being tired of caring about this sort of thing, you're suddenly a worse per son than the actual bigot.
I guarantee you within 5 minutes of seeing/talking to his kids, he mentions trump and dives hard into his extreme right politics.
But its everyone else that has "Trump Derangement Syndrome", not him and his incessant need to make it the center of his life.
I mean, he admits to not being there when his kids were growing up. And he spends the time talking about his offspring’s family and their “values.” They have the kids, so they’re obviously willing to keep tolerating him if the kids get to see him enough that they are “the light of his life” or whatever. But he’s still talking about how he doesn’t know if he can stand to have a further relationship with his kid (that he wasn’t around to raise) and their spouse. Because politics.
So…I don’t think this guy’s probably on the right side of any issue they have.
But he will always love his grandchildren, because surely they won't ever espouse opinions he doesn't like... right???
grandchildren are still young enough to be cowed into only saying what grampy wants to hear.
When they get older he'll turn against them too.
It's a weird mix of societal norms that he is pulling from. Just wish these people would find their identity from within and not externally.
That's how the religious indoctrination at the base of this works. By design you NEVER question the church. And the Conservative GOP leadership has tapped into that reality distortion field. They could literally tell these people to commit murder and they would...
It's Nazi level propaganda scary.
They did and they do.
No estranged parent ever does.
(For anyone that wants to know more: http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/)
Can confirm, wrt the boundaries portion. I had to have a discussion with the parent with whom I maintain minimal contact, for reasons. They managed to throw in a wild accusation and went absolutely bat guano, demanding I inform a payee of one of her checks that did not show up in the mail that she would be deducting the stop payment fee from the next check. I said I would not, because there is no legal provision for that, and they sent me a screenshot of their bank's stop payment notice suggesting she talk with the payee, circled and highlighted in paint, to inform me, and I copied the text to paste it here:
It’s crazy. I know I’m part of the problem too. These people need something other than factual rebuttals to bring them back into the fold but I’m le tired. I can’t do it anymore. But that means the system is working as intended and we must strive to dismantle it.
Well, have a nap...then fire the missiles!!
(hoping you were making this reference, or this comment is going to be super weird)
I'm just starting my deeper learning about narcissism, but I think one trait is literally being unable to admit fault. It's how their brain works.