Wow is all I can say. A long time ago I posted about a fight I had with my then younger adult child who IIRC was yelling at me about Trump. In my own house. It was mystifying as we have always had a good relationship. The reaction here was "kick him out of the house" and let him grow up. I did, and he did.
Even after he left home while more respective about his views, and mine, he was hanging on to the leftist narrative. Got vaxed much to my despair. Then he and his younger brother got COVID. Then they got it AGAIN. Then they decided the vaccinations were "bullshit."
It's hard to keep this short but fast forward to 2023 and my oldest son tells me he's voting for Trump. For the first time in forever we were having dinner with my Mom and he crossed himself after she said grace. Trust me that's a HUGE deal. Probably most encouraging is that for the first time in months he agreed with me in general that while things seem really dark right now it's probably because the people who own the central banks and BlackRock and Vanguard, etc., are going to lose control of the brainwashed population when people wake up to the fact that we have ALL been lied to, for as long as anyone alive can remember, and longer than that. This didn't happen overnight, and I have to note that the earlier stage of his awakening was pure anger and frustration, "we're just fucked and there's nothing anyone can do about it."
In light of the apparent crack in his armor, took the opportunity to suggest that maybe the poison pills Trump planted on the board of the federal reserve was intentional, in order to put the treasury in first lien position so he could force a default on the 31 trillion and destroy the central banks. He knows a lot about markets and money, may be a little on the spectrum actually because his math acumen is sort of rainman. I told him I would send him that Master and Commander article that made me think this might be true. He is very interested in at least looking into it.
Anyhoo, I have had much guilt and regret about not homeschooling my kids. They were very smart and tested into the most elite public schools in the state. At the time I thought they'd be there to redpill the lefties they went to school with. Initially, it didn't work out that way AT ALL. But I am really seeing the tide start to turn with not just my kids but their friends. The D5 avalanche is the awakening, methinks. Onward and Upward!
This is sort of off topic, but at Midway Airport in Chicago recently they kept announcing the interfaith Christian chapel service times. I didn't even know airports had chapels, which were I have since learned put in airports some 60 years ago, but am still surprised they are going out of their way to let people know about them. Weird times.
I noticed the same thing at DFW airport as well.
i got kicked out of my house for being a conspiracy theorist, so your parenting sounds pretty good to me
his parenting? Yes. But not his grasp of definition of DEFAULT.
A default is if INTEREST is not paid on a loan, but USA takes in vastly more money via taxes than the servicing of loan interest.
The USA president CANNOT selectively force default by re-prioritizing debt obligations.
IT IS CURRENTLY IMPOSSIBLE to do a real default legally.
Ask ANY educated economist.
If the debt ceiling hits, then OTHER things, not interest on loans, is cut back.
THE USA CANNOT DEFAULT unless all money , taxes, and assets goes away magically.
The liberal news is full of Lefty shit.
okay, and?
you wrote :
but HE wrote legal nonsense fantasy :
Get it? His grasp of definition of "DEFAULT" is weak and uninformed.
okay. good looking out. doesn't really change anything though, does it?
Nor does it have anything to do with parenting. And it's written really aggressively for some reason.
Then we "magically" shift the debt burden to every congressman that was involved with raising the nat debt
I am right there with you, HelloDolly. Our older son traveled from California to Ohio to pick up another cocker spaniel from the same breeder as our first. He stayed with us for a few weeks, while I helped him house train the puppy. Then Covid hit and numerous businesses were shut down, so he stayed with us 8 months d/t unknown ability to find hotels, restaurants and gas stations open as he drove back to California. (He was unemployed by choice, living off bitcoin investments he made while working in IT.) we sent both of our children to private schools K-12 and colleges. Now I wonder what indoctrination occurred back then too. Our oldest is 47. Strong willed and stubborn, you can’t tell him anything. He hated Trump and the news we watched with a passion. Now he won’t even talk to us, mainly because of our politics. He can’t stand his father and now he lumps me in. What he doesn’t see is he is just like his father-both of them feel they are always right. So I understand entirely where you are coming from. Sometimes you have to let them learn for themselves. I am not sure our oldest will ever come around. He also doesn’t speak to his brother. Time will tell, but sometimes it will be to late. Don’t blame yourself. We didn’t know then, what we know now. We thought we were making the best decision at that time. I have many regrets too, but you can’t go back. Hindsight is better than foresight!
I realized a few weeks ago that I believe most families no matter how strong of a bond they have together no matter how small or large no matter what religion they are lol, Most families in general are experiencing division. The hard part for me is asking God what can I do beyond prayer. I’m one of eight children and four of them have completely canceled my parents and taking away their grandchildren and completely stopped communication with the siblings. It has been extremely saddening for years. I’m really grateful that I can pray with my mom and I trust her and the Lord. We finally got to travel to see my 94 year old grandmother a few weeks ago. Whom we haven’t seen since 2019. We discussed the cancel culture aspect of our family and she just let us into a prayer for a few hours and we cried and passed the tissues and it was amazing. My mom said “whether it’s on this side of heaven or not Lord, we trust you to bring unity.”
It is truly sad the physical and emotional impact politics, indoctrination and Covid have had on the family.
It’s kinda crazy, but my homeschooled family has been completely normal throughout this entire ordeal while my husbands side has had conflict and disunity. Summer 2020 there were 50+ people at my parents house celebrating my Gramas 85th birthday while my husbands side was canceling EVERYTHING and we couldn’t be around each other without social distancing and/or masks.
It was a real eye opener to see the comparison between the families.
True.
Sad story. I would encourage you to study books that have been written on how to be more persuasive, and to pray for wisdom in the area of persuasion too. People are persuadable. And it's hard to look in the mirror when we fail, but we must if we are going to become better at it. Good luck to you.
Still waiting on mine to see the light. There are glimmers but that's all so far....
Just lead by example. Be respectful, stand your ground. Make sure you aren't being hypocritical about any of the views you're espousing. Kids can smell a hypocritical parent a mile off, and will run in the opposite direction of whatever that parent is trying to sell them.
I am doing that. I worked for a Conservative's campaign and my kids were proud of me.
Glad to hear they are coming around. I watch a lot of reaction videos usually of blacks who are just now turning into Tucker and other videos that show Trump is not the racist everyone of them think.
My heart skipped a beat the other day when I was watching 2 black guys who showed on their channel the national anthems actual story. It showed where the words came from for the song. These were the kneel when the national anthem is played at sports games and have woken up to how bad their kneeling really was.
So there is hope.
That conjures up a very strange image!
Good.
Drawing from my own life experience, I can say that when you're young and all your needs are being met by your parents, leftist-socialist ideas are the easy and lazy way to think. Someone else always picks up the tab.
But my wise parents directed me to get a job when I was 14, working as a bag-boy and stocking shelves at a local grocery store. After my first paycheck I became a confirmed conservative...back then even underage employees paid taxes. Within the space of one week, I came to realize the reality that my parents faced every single day.
Most excellent. P.J. O'Rourke used to say that a Conservative is a one-time Liberal who got mugged. And when you're mugged by your own government, then it's even a shorter trip to Conservatism.
Excellent news!
College tries to homogenize everyone, but the cream separates itself, with time. It must have been a despairing time. Glad they are back.
Forgive yourself for the past; you can't blame yourself for what you didn't know. Keep doing your best; they love you now and that's what matters.
On the subject of homeschooling:
"If you give your children to Cesar to be taught, don't be surprised when they come home as Romans"
Your limited influence at home isn't as great as you may think. The power of structured education repeated hour after hour 5 days a week and groupthink along with peer pressures while your child is trying to fit in makes your time at home and at sunday school pale in comparison. This is by design.
Thank you for sharing this it is very encouraging. Where can I find the Master and Commander article? Do you (or any frens) have a link for it? Thank you.
Original: https://badlands.substack.com/p/master-and-commander
Archived: https://archive.is/WsEOt
THANK YOU! 👍👍
God Bless you all!! That is wonderful, especially the part about God. You can't go wrong with that!
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is OLD, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 KJV
Thank you for sharing... gives me a lot of hope... told my husband yesterday it takes 3 generations. 2 to mess it all up and a 3rdcto fix it. Your children and many others are thec3rd. Bless the world and your children
The sad part about this post is that people believe they get Covid. Any research shows there is no test to determine Covid. The media has people brainwashed to believe they get Covid. Covid was “released” to allow the world governments to inject people with a poison.
Great to hear this friend.
This is the best post of the day. I’m so happy for you and your family. My daughter is a complete leftist. This tells me there’s hope. Congrats enjoy it.
I wish I had that wisdom at 23.
Great story fren and congrats on having your family re-united!
Was there any specific event or subject that triggered them to wake up? I've found that people have various triggers.
Great news, fren!
Great news all around. My only quibble is using the terms "elite" and "public schools" in the same sentence.
LOL for real.
Praise the Lord! That's wonderful news.
Great post and a great lesson to all of us on a little tough love.
And HD, don't worry too much about not homeschooling your children. All we can control is our present and future actions. There was a time where I regretted not homeschooling my son (he's 24). But we were talking about this very subject a year or so ago and he's glad he went to a public school for high school.
He got to see the techniques used to brainwash young people up close and there's no amount of explaining I can do that's going to be as good as that real life experience.
I suspect it'll be the same for your child.
Praise the Lord, your son is back! What a blessing!
Beautiful story, thanks for the update. It’s really so uplifting to hear this, as your son, hopefullay, is representative of many many more who are waking up.
Very nice win fren.
Thanks for posting.
If he ever gets into Q, you've got this BlackRock deep dive to share with him.
https://decodingsymbols.wordpress.com/2021/08/05/blackrock-plus/
TBH, you don't have to be religious or conservative to support Trump.
*I think most Trumpsters would support RFK over DeSanctimonious...
It's pretty rough and I am sure this sort of thing snuck up on many parents that might have underestimated how corrupted schools, media and influences have become to children.
We're a traditional family, so my niece and nephew were taught at a very young age about common sense things like "A boy is not a girl and cannot be a girl." as well as "Don't grow up to be a sissy gay boy." This was taught among many other things such as situations where they could potentially be sexually harassed and they are taught to run away and tell us. This was taught to them even before they hit double digit ages.
Is it enough? I don't know since I won't be watching over them forever, but I'd like to think I at least helped got them off on the right foot.
To parents and guardians of children out there, good luck raising the next generation and don't let this cancel culture bullshit propaganda turn you into a meek hands-off parent. You won't be doing your kids any favors if you do.
Nice one fren. And I’m sorry to hear they took the poison jabs, I hope they are fine and they ended up with the salene solution.
My daughter’s in-laws came to visit two weeks ago and she had said to me, “No talking politics or COVID” because they lean left. So I respected her wishes and was keeping my mouth shut. Imagine my surprise when Trump’s name was brought up, and not in a negative way! And then comments about the media and the lies and how they are trying to manipulate all of us! Apparently there is a grown son (20s) who’s awakened, sharing and being respected/heard. I was super encouraged.
AMEN!
This is wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing this great news. What a blessing (and a relief) for you this is. So great to hear. I look forward to the day we have six such announcements on a daily basis. Bless you for sharing. We all need to hear this sort of encouragement. So very happy for you. God is good.
Glad they have finally come around.