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As all of you who still follow me know I’ve become increasingly Leftist since Hillary lost. I’m very vocal about it. I get that from my mother, a proud Sicilian woman who’s always made me challenge my beliefs. I love her with all my heart. It’s been very hard talking politics...
With most of my family, self-identified liberals. It’s been a journey. The first time I said bad things about Bill Clinton I thought she was gonna paint houses with my face in the home I grew up in. For real. She doesn’t fuck around.
Fortunately I have a death wish so I kept dropping facts as I learned them, about her heroes, Bill and Hillary, Barack and Michelle, Jeffrey Epstein (kidding about the last one). I realized three things: facts had an effect, she was defensive because she was protective, birds.
Her brother, my Uncle Patrick, who passed in the early 90’s from AIDS, was executive director at ROCK THE VOTE! which had a substantial effect on getting Bill Clinton elected in ‘92. So when I spoke ill of the Clintons, I was defacing her brother’s memory.
Even though I rarely show it on here, I learned never to talk down to her, if I simply stated facts, she’d listen. It seems like before she passes (she’s in her 70’s and will be around for quite some time) maybe, JUST MAYBE I might get her to change her mind about... nothing.
Then, 2 Sundays ago, in my family group chat, my sister-in-law brought up SLOW BURN, a podcast about the Clintons and how the media and liberals slut-shamed a victim, that I’d recommended years ago. Sis-in-L said Monica Lewinsky and the coverage of her were monstrous.
So I asked my Mom something she’d have disowned me for just a year or two ago, “Are you open to the idea of Bill Clinton being a sexual predator?” No response. Sicilian mafioso are headed my way. I did this to me. Well, at least it wasn’t worth it- *CELLPHONE VIBRATION*
MOM: “He’s probably a sexual predator. Thanks, Jessica!” (that’s my sis-in-law) I hate the Right, truly. But, I love that my 70-year-old, kickass mom who’s admitted to being wrong MAYBE once, ever, is still open to change, even when it might lessen her brother’s legacy.
I reassured her it would do the opposite. My Uncle was the best influence in my life in the brief time he was here. I’m only now realizing “Bill’s addiction to holes brought me closer to my family!” wasn’t what I expected to read tonight either.
In conclusion, All Rich and Powerful People Are Evil, MSNBC is centrist corporate talking points, FOX NEWS is state propaganda, Black Trans Lives Matter to me, thus my concern for (most likely) a VP with prosecutor in their resume but bringing that up means I love our Cheeto prez
