Something concerning happened today and I've been stewing for hours, but now I'm gonna talk about it. I am seriously worried that this election will be much closer than any of us realize because of the people who will vote for Trump but just won't admit it or talk about it. 1/

I got into a blowout fight with my aunt, who has always been very diametrically opposite in political perspective...any perspective for that matter because she has never had any. She honestly does not know how to discern a fact from opinion. 2/

I yelled at her "you're smarter than that" several times on the phone, but upon reflection I have decided that I don't think she is very smart at all, just very cleaver at manipulating people, lying and getting what she wants. Sound familiar? 3/

When Trump won the election, I resolved to never talk politics with her, my uncle or any of my cousins again because it was a waste of time and I didn't want to loathe them. So I have actively steered the convo away from all of it or just tuned out and gotten off the phone. 4/

It is for this reason I have not seen any of them for 3+ years-I do not want to be stuck in a situation I can't easily get out of. But this changed today when she told me she thought the COVID numbers were fake because no one she knows has it. I had it-it almost killed me. 5/

Then she said she was tired of being lied to and just wanted the truth. I stupidly asked her if that meant she would be voting for Biden. She launched into how despicable he was and made it clear she would be voting for Trump. Here's the problem...6/

She has been actively downplaying her support of him to me and saying she thinks he's ridiculous. She has flat out been lying about how much she really supports him and acting like she just wouldn't vote. I caught her in it today and I lost my mind. 7/

The worst part is, I'm pretty sure she feels emboldened now to say this because she is so irritated by BLM and how that affects her position in the world, her privilege. She feels so displaced that she no longer cares to lie anymore. 8/

If she feels this way, that mean many, many more people do. She is not someone I would have called racist before, just stupid and ignorant. Now I am flat out calling her a racist. If you fully support a man who is racist to do your dirty work for you...

while you hide behind him and lie about it, you are worse than he is. As someone who will be adopting, possibly a child of another color, I will not be around it or tolerate it. I was so mad had to yell "I love you" twice before I hung up on her. 9/

I will no longer give a pass to this ignorance-intentional or not. It's cruel and I honestly don't understand how this woman is even related to my mother. I am not naive or stupid, but I missed this one. I'm sick about it and worried for Nov. Thanks for listening. 10/