I'm sorry to hear about the anxieties in your current situation, Magistra.... You are not alone, as these are troubling times..... I went to DC on the 6th and met some great patriots and didn't harm anyone or anything, but when I returned to my hotel that night and saw the coverage on the news, my heart sank, because I knew my 88 year old father would believe everything the MSM portrayed me to be. Yesterday, I spoke to him on the phone for the first time since then, and my worst fears were realized, as it seemed he was roiling for an argument. I didn't want to talk politics for fear of it going off the rails, so I simply told him he's being deceived by MSM, and everything is not how they say it is. He then went on to tell me how there was no election fraud, and that instead of being a patriot, that I'm a dissenter, and I hurt our country by going to DC. We then argued for a half hour as I tried to point out that it's not all about Trump, but more importantly the moral and ethical issues involved. He doesn't see the evil in the people on the left that he holds in high regard. I told him I loved him but was worried about his refusal to employ some critical thinking to seek the truth, and he told me I didn't love him or I wouldn't speak to him that way, with the end result he being so offended that I would disrespect him and his judgement, that he disowned me. I keep seeing that people on the left are waking up, but in my world, my father, mother, and sister are still asleep. I'm praying for reconciliation with my dad, and for anyone who's families have been fractured through all of this. PS. (Yeah on top of this, I have anxieties about my retirement portfolio too.... )

I'm sorry to hear about the anxieties in your current situation, Magistra.... You are not alone, as these are troubling times..... I went to DC on the 6th and met some great patriots and didn't harm anyone or anything, but when I returned to my hotel that night and saw the coverage on the news, my heart sank, because I knew my 88 year old father would believe everything the MSM portrayed me to be. Yesterday, I spoke to him on the phone for the first time since then, and my worst fears were realized, as it seemed he was roiling for an argument. I didn't want to talk politics for fear of it going off the rails, so I simply told him he's being deceived by MSM, and everything is not how they say it is. He then went on to tell me how there was no election fraud, and that instead of being a patriot, that I'm a dissenter, and I hurt our country by going to DC. We then argued for a half hour as I tried to point out that it's not all about Trump, but more importantly the moral and ethical issues involved. He doesn't see the evil in the people on the left that he holds in high regard. I told him I loved him but was worried about his refusal to employed some critical thinking to seek the truth, and he told me I didn't love him or I wouldn't speak to him that way, with the end result he being so offended that I would disrespect him and his judgement, that he disowned me. I keep seeing that people on the left are waking up, but in my world, my father, mother, and sister are still asleep. I'm praying for reconciliation with my dad, and for anyone who's families have been fractured through all of this. PS. (Yeah on top of this, I have anxieties about my retirement portfolio too.... )

I'm sorry to hear about the anxieties in your current situation, Magistra.... You are not alone, as these are troubling times..... I went to DC on the 6th and met some great patriots and didn't harm anyone or anything, but when I returned to my hotel that night and saw the coverage on the news, my heart sank, because I knew my 88 year old father would believe everything the MSM portrayed me to be. Yesterday, I spoke to him on the phone for the first time since then, and my worst fears were realized, as it seemed he was roiling for an argument. I didn't want to talk politics for fear of it going off the rails, so I simply told him he's being deceived by MSM, and everything is not how they say it is. He then went on to tell me how there was no election fraud, and that instead of being a patriot, that I'm a dissenter, and I hurt our country by going to DC. We then argued for a half hour as I tried to point out that it's not all about Trump, but more importantly the moral and ethical issues involved. He doesn't see the evil in the people on the left that he holds in high regard. I told him I loved him but was worried about his refusal to employed some critical thinking to seek the truth, and he told me I didn't love him or I wouldn't speak to him that way, with the end result he being so offended that I would disrespect him and his judgement, that he disowned me. I keep seeing that people on the left are waking up, but in my world, my father, mother, and sister are still asleep. I'm praying for reconciliation with my dad, and for anyone who's families have been fractured through all of this.