Like most of us here, I have family and friends who are brainwashed and who will not wake up, and some who go so far as to ridicule my "conspiracy crap" .
It's the family that hurts. I have finally given myself permission to let go of the responsibility to save them by awakening them, and leaving that in God's hands. As a human and family member, I feel a little guilt, but I feel more empowered by the freedom to focus my time and energy on finding and bonding with like-minded people rather than wasting it on hopeless cases "because they're family" .
If my family comes to me and asks for help, of course I will help them. But I will not jeopardize my ability to protect and care for those who need me to seek that one lost sheep... that's Jesus' role, and if he works through me then so be it.
I will pray for them.
But I give myself permission to let go of the responsibility, guilt and related stress. And I encourage you to consider that if you have not done so. It's unique for each of us. Just know that it is okay.
Never prior to the advent of Q would I have thought I could lose my brother and best friend but it happened. I always knew being 4 years my junior that he was indoctrinated in school more than I was. I was closer to my grandfather who taught me all about communism having come from an eastern european country in his youth. When confronted with Marxist professors in college I openly argued with them in class and having read all of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's books, understood and fought back against their propaganda. As a result I graduated with the lowest GPA from that school at the absolute bottom of the class not because I was stupid, quite the opposite. It was because I was cast as "one of them". An outsider that wouldn't conform, wouldn't carry signs or march with the others for every cause du jour where warm bodies were needed for news cameras.
My brother drank the Kool-Aid and graduated with highest honors and went on to law school at UPenn where he was surrounded by more leftists. While he wasn't one to protest on the street, he did follow the rules to jettison his religion and substitute the word of God with the words printed in the NYT, WSJ and to faithfully watch CNN and listen to NPR in the car. We were able to peacefully coexist in spite of occasional jabs and barbs said mostly in jest. That is until my early curiosity in Q and the interesting puzzle that it presented.
As I awakened to a reality which was hidden in plain sight to those willing to open their eyes and expand their thinking, I was able to discern things like never before. My mistake was to share what was becoming evident to me with my brother. At first he simply hand waved it away until I made the mistake of being drawn into the date fagging and made some predictions which didn't pan out. At that point he began to comment that I was crazy and needed to see a shrink. His fall back was always the "truth" contained in MSM who he said had too much to lose if it were not so.
The final split came in a poison email he sent to me saying that he felt I had lost it, was a crazy conspiracy nut and he didn't want anything more to do with me and that I needed professional help. Since that time we have been estranged. I have reached out a few times with texts, a couple emails and even a phone call or two but received only short quick replies and nothing more. We used to speak on the phone once a week and now haven't spoken in over a year.
I'll admit I was wrong on the timing of many of Q's predictions but not on the substance. It is yet to be seen how this movie ends but I know that my brother and I will never be close again. I never understood how the Civil War in America could divide brother against brother but now I do. It would break my parents hearts if they were alive to see this happen to their only 2 sons. But it is what it is. I still love him but I am not responsible for him waking up. I don't care if he considers me stupid, backwards, uneducated, etc. At some point the fading numbers of viewers and readers of MSM will become obvious to most of his progressive friends if not to him. The truths that I hope come to light with Trump's trials, future elections and the exposure of the Clintons, Pizzagate, the cabal, etc will be inescapable but only he can connect the dots that I did years before. He can put whatever he chooses into his head. If it confilcts with reality so be it. I did what I could when I could. It would be a blessing if he picked up the phone and called me but I won't hold my breath.
My brother is in my daily prayers and I hope God heals our relationship and those of so many others who have been destroyed by the lies, deceit and injustices of our government and the propaganda of our news media, our schools, and those ever present unelected bureaucrats that try to silence, muzzle and force conformity towards vaccines, trans agendas, political ideologies and replacing God with all their evils.
First, I am so sorry about the conflict with your brother. You have so eloquently described what so many have experienced.
Second... as I said... eloquently described. You are a talented thinker and writer--that is obvious. I hope you consider making your comment its own post, and perhaps maybe even starting a series of posts that will help fellow Anons understand and navigate the complexities of this puzzle and its effect on our various relationships.
Thanks for sharing. And, if anyone can figure out what to say, when and how to say it to bridge the gap with your brother, you can. With God's grace, you will be close again.