For instance, I have an aunt who is definitely MAGA, and is flirting with Q-Anon ideas. However, she has pretty good views on the environment and animal rights. For instance, after travelling to Ecuador, she donates to some Ecuadorian land trust run by locals. However, if you start talking to her about the border or gender, she goes full Orbán.
Most of my family with the weirdest politics are dead, mom was a hardcore anticom tradcath, enough said there, as she aged she chilled down a lot on abortion and the role of women, watching someone undergo a miscarriage while we waited in the ER for like 12hrs since her blood sugar was like 500 has a tendency to do that. She loved John Paul II, Mother Theresa especially, I remember my sister pointing out the faults of the later with the India school deal and she didn’t really believe her since she was a saint.
My grandma was a boring standard demsoc but had the weirdest view on environmentalism (my sister figures its related to grandma was super into magic and had all sorts of awesome mystical stories that could make a full length movie or two), basically climate change is man made all right, but it is caused by us discriminating against lgbtqia+ community, we apparently have magic mass climate and weather-controlling powers from birth or someshit and the more we’re harmed/hated the worse climate change gets. She was always extra nice to those she perceived as different, not out of respect for fellow humanity/comrades, but fear her garden would get cursed and that she’d contribute to the demise of the world via environmental destruction.
The last one with the weird politics is my uncle who is living, standard neofasc conspiracy minded new age hippie sort, but he’s full of regret from his career in the military (you know the type), so he knows he’s fucked up at some level, desperately trying to improve on the surface ‘safe’ level ex learn about other peoples and cultures, then falls back into his old patterns and insults everyone that isn’t a cishet monotheist white male with cosmic grade bigotry. He holds the sort of contradictory views you can imagine.
centrist in refugee issues, claims both refugees and racists are annoying
states that communist are good guys at the end of the day just wants to help poor people
instinctually repulsed by any form of mass protest, even if she agrees with the protest.
believes that most jews and chinese people are rich but thinks thata a good thing and everyone is just jealous of their success
hates salafists while saying gay and bi men are icky except for freddy mercury (doesnt mind lesbians for some reason)
thinks october 7 and 9/11 is a false flag operation by america and netanyahu
And many more bizzare political beliefs.
My mom. She was apolitical. Got her to vote for Obama when I liked Obama. Obama didn’t do shit. She fell hard into Trump politics and spiraled on conspiracy theories. She still has a child’s concept of politics. She’s blue collar af and I got her to agree to the labor theory of value before I told her what it was.
Debating with my dad gives me such whiplash between absolutely based calls to action he actually implements to help the oppressed in our society, environmentalism, anticapitalism and the chuddiest bigotry and anticommunism ever.
