Why I Love America

I’ve never really engaged much with my parents on politics. They were born in the 1940s, in West Germany, moved here in 1974 when I was a year old, also German-born. I knew enough during my process of determination of how I feel politically that it was a topic that was just avoided. I naturalized in 2012 to attempt to vote out Obama.

My father died and I spent more time with my mother, first learning enough that Mainstream Media was on her DVR. I tried to convince her initially that they were lying, but she was unconvinced. That was 18 months ago, and even a landslide election has not changed her position one iota.

Today, the topic came up again in relation to the “danger” that my American-born sister might face visiting Germany, and to speak German as much as possible. I was fuming. To add to that, my mother stated she would not go there for fear of not being let back into the US. I held my (text) tongue a few hours but could not let it go.

I feel if she really felt that way, she would not be letting my sister and her daughter go to Germany. Surely, it’s much too dangerous, right? Just as dangerous as a legal German permanent resident is upon returning to the US? GMAFB. Absurdity.

I again implored with her to stop watching mainstream left-wing news. Choose anything else, centrist, conservative, I don’t care but start to compare and contrast and figure out who is telling the truth. I was brutal and did not pull any punches. I said she should know better being post-war born in West Germany.

I tried to nail her down on who’s news she was watching. I offered to take any article/issue from her news source and debate it. Nothing.

Told me to accept it, grow up, drop it. Told me she lost me when I joined the “MAGA” movement. Someone who was born in the ashes of fascism is OK with my apparent support of it.

Now the sadness really sets in.

It is really offensive and completely un-American what the mainstream media is doing by unfair reporting, manipulative reporting, reporting without fact, intentionally manipulating the news to drive a narrative.

It is disgusting and doomed to failure, as the jig is finally up, but it has cost me a part of the relationship with my mother.

I will never stop being pissed off about it. Hopefully some of what I said today to her will cause her to consider comparing “facts”.