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Summary

With Donald Trump’s 2024 election win, young Gen Z voters like Kate, Holly, and Rachel are grappling with deepening divides with their Trump-supporting parents.

For many, these conflicts go beyond policy disagreements, touching on core values and morality. Parents once focused on fiscal conservatism have, in some cases, embraced conspiracy theories, creating painful rifts.

Studies suggest political divisions are increasingly seen as moral judgments, fostering a “mega-identity” where political views signify personal decency.

For these young adults, maintaining family connections amidst such ideological fractures has become challenging.

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[-] lath@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Because the alternative to communication is violence.

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago

Not communicating is violence now?

[-] lath@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Apparently it is. Otherwise we wouldn't have popular comments such as "if you didn't vote, you're complicit" or "silence is acquiescence of fascism". So no communication = violence, because if you run away from them, then you're giving them free reign to implement their views.

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

...you act like you had control over their views at any time in the past, which is hilarious. Staying is simply suffering for no benefit. Now I'm not going to kinkshame, but damn man, you should really find another way to cum; anguish is going way too far.

[-] lath@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Dear solitary person, who is separate from the world, uninfluenced by anyone or anything, a true beacon of independent thought, you seriously believe your views are pure and untainted? That nothing and no one can change them at any point? Or were you so defeated by your past that you no longer believe a mind can be changed?

From you who is already beaten and wallows within the bitter taste of their tragedy, all i have gained is sadness. I am sorry you suffered and i am sorry you were unable to regain your loved ones, if they ever were such, but please, do not drag others into your suffering and instead allow them to drag you out of it.

Minds can be changed, views can be altered. Hope exists whether we can see it or not. And in this vein, I hope you will find your happiness once more and spread that joy instead of this current unpalatable sorrow.

Be well.

this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
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