https://twitter.com/jadedcreative/status/1320358080144658433
When my dad was diagnosed with cancer we talked a lot on the phone but not politics. When we fell into a coma I spent a weekend in the hospital watching sime of our favorite movies with him on my iPad. I believe that he knew it was there with him. It felt like we weren’t at the hospital but at his apartment watching movies together on his couch.
The last thing I would do would be badger him over casting an absentee ballot from his death bed.
This isn’t a touching story about a father doing one last thing for his girls.
This is a story about a sociopathic cult member manipulating a dying man and then using that story to manipulate you.
(sniff, sniff) Her dying dad voted for the head of a corrupt crime family who allegedly penetrated a female staffer’s vagina with his finger. (sorry to be crying so hard) It was soooo brave of his daughter to post that on social media, too. ?
If I were the Dad I’d have just lied to her and voted for Trump anyway. How disrespectful is it to try and push their views on him?
Now that he’s dead, he’ll be voting Democrat from now on.
Damn…. You beat me to it.
It is early voting in a way.
Assuming it actually happened and she’s not making the whole thing up.
My dad used to do the same thing. In a way.
He as shop steward for decades, and the union was very persistent in trying to get all their members to vote Dem. And, as far as they knew, my Dad always voted lockstep with the union wishes. Curiously, we used to have rather elevated discussions about his voting Republican, when I (a dumb stupid idealist) wanted him to vote Dem. (Of course my reasons were…. well…. misinformed at best.)
It is easy to tell little white lies to people you love and respect when it comes to politics.
“SO. CAN. YOU.”
No, I can’t. (Or, using her language: “NO. I. CAN’T.”)
I have principles.
Rather than pander to my kids, I explain to them the issues, do my level best to cover both sides fairly, and then explain why I vote the way I do. They’re free to disagree, but come election day my vote is my vote, not theirs.
When they become voting age, they’ll be free to vote how they decide, and their votes will be their votes, not mine. We’ll always discuss the candidates and issues and the pros and cons of all sides, but the vote itself is sacred and should only be cast of one’s own free will.
Because that’s how voting in a free country works.
My daughter is reading _The Red Umbrella_ for school. She was talking about how she didn’t know when she picked it that it was about Communist Cuba. She is very very upset that the protagonist in the story, a girl about her age, thinks that Communism is good.
I think I managed to instill a hatred of Communism and it’s little brother, Socialism in my son and daughter.
I don’t think she’ll be trying to force me to vote D when I’m on my deathbed.