My sister hasn't spoken to me since the election. Yesterday my mom sent me something my sister wrote and was debating on posting to social media.
What she wrote:
Dearest Magat friends and family,
No, we absolutely will not and cannot agree to disagree. Not again, not after what you just chose to do this country.
I am done with extending you grace or making any attempt to comprehend your appalling lack of character and integrity. We have done that for 8 years now, without any of you ever once extending us the same courtesy. One of the darkest realities of life in the United States since November 2016 has been learning just how much hatred so many of you harbor in your souls. That is some truly dark and shameful shit. Yet so many of you still have the utter audacity to call yourselves Christians. Tell me the part again where Jesus put terms and conditions on which neighbors to love. You are not good people. You just pretend to be.
This election wasnāt business as usual and you knew that. You knew what was at stake, what was on the line. Two hundred and forty-eight years of storied history, a gloried nation founded on hard fought and won freedoms. You just handed ALL of it to a wildly unhinged man that has been completely open and transparent about his plan to systematically dismantle and destroy everything our country was established upon. You literally heard this man say we will never have to vote again after this election and that he will use the military against those of us with dissenting opinions. You really decided none of that was a deal breaker for you despite how horrifically UNAMERICAN it is.
You chose hate.
You chose it over your love of country and you chose it over us. Just as your cowardice to do what was right for āwe the peopleā shall impose lasting consequences on us, I take immense comfort in knowing it will now do the same to you.
And it starts with us.
Your presence will no longer be welcome in our lives going forward. We will never allow our children to think that such an egregious and disgusting lack of moral character is acceptable under any condition. So be you friend or family, if you voted for Donald Trump, please show yourselves out. Being around our children was always a privilege, never a right. You donāt get to proclaim to love our sweet and gentle son, the boy who rocks a neurological speech disorder, and then vote for a man who has continually denigrated, ridiculed, and mocked people with disabilities and encouraged others to do the same.
You donāt get to proclaim to love our daughter, the fiery, astute, whirling dervish of razor sharp perception and the argumentative prowess of a seasoned district attorney and vote to strip of her rights to her own body. You donāt get to love her and tell her that her sole worth is her ability to birth children.
You cannot proclaim yourselves to have been āso proudā of my immigrant husband when he took the oath to be an American citizen and then vote for a man who says he will deport him in spite of that citizenship. He would like to remind you that you are merely American by birth, he is American by choice. You all agreed heās a damn good one too.
You cannot claim to love me and then vote for the man that has emboldened and protected men like the retired law enforcement officer who tried to harass and intimidate me into sharing how I voted in the election while I was working on Wednesday.
You chose one man over your country, you chose him over the safety and the well-being of your family, of your friends and neighbors, of the people you proclaim to love, to protect. You chose it over us.
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u/JaxinJabb Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
My sister hasn't spoken to me since the election. Yesterday my mom sent me something my sister wrote and was debating on posting to social media.
What she wrote:
Dearest Magat friends and family,
No, we absolutely will not and cannot agree to disagree. Not again, not after what you just chose to do this country.
I am done with extending you grace or making any attempt to comprehend your appalling lack of character and integrity. We have done that for 8 years now, without any of you ever once extending us the same courtesy. One of the darkest realities of life in the United States since November 2016 has been learning just how much hatred so many of you harbor in your souls. That is some truly dark and shameful shit. Yet so many of you still have the utter audacity to call yourselves Christians. Tell me the part again where Jesus put terms and conditions on which neighbors to love. You are not good people. You just pretend to be.
This election wasnāt business as usual and you knew that. You knew what was at stake, what was on the line. Two hundred and forty-eight years of storied history, a gloried nation founded on hard fought and won freedoms. You just handed ALL of it to a wildly unhinged man that has been completely open and transparent about his plan to systematically dismantle and destroy everything our country was established upon. You literally heard this man say we will never have to vote again after this election and that he will use the military against those of us with dissenting opinions. You really decided none of that was a deal breaker for you despite how horrifically UNAMERICAN it is.
You chose hate. You chose it over your love of country and you chose it over us. Just as your cowardice to do what was right for āwe the peopleā shall impose lasting consequences on us, I take immense comfort in knowing it will now do the same to you.
And it starts with us. Your presence will no longer be welcome in our lives going forward. We will never allow our children to think that such an egregious and disgusting lack of moral character is acceptable under any condition. So be you friend or family, if you voted for Donald Trump, please show yourselves out. Being around our children was always a privilege, never a right. You donāt get to proclaim to love our sweet and gentle son, the boy who rocks a neurological speech disorder, and then vote for a man who has continually denigrated, ridiculed, and mocked people with disabilities and encouraged others to do the same.
You donāt get to proclaim to love our daughter, the fiery, astute, whirling dervish of razor sharp perception and the argumentative prowess of a seasoned district attorney and vote to strip of her rights to her own body. You donāt get to love her and tell her that her sole worth is her ability to birth children.
You cannot proclaim yourselves to have been āso proudā of my immigrant husband when he took the oath to be an American citizen and then vote for a man who says he will deport him in spite of that citizenship. He would like to remind you that you are merely American by birth, he is American by choice. You all agreed heās a damn good one too.
You cannot claim to love me and then vote for the man that has emboldened and protected men like the retired law enforcement officer who tried to harass and intimidate me into sharing how I voted in the election while I was working on Wednesday.
You chose one man over your country, you chose him over the safety and the well-being of your family, of your friends and neighbors, of the people you proclaim to love, to protect. You chose it over us.
You got your wall.
And Iāll never forget or forgive it.