It’s an odd split. The ones who agree, or who don’t but are fine with an opposing opinion are the ones who have made something of themselves (not talking millionaires here, just job/house/kids, the bar is low where I’m from…) the ones who are still adult children are furious. Genuinely, really furious. They have nothing to back it up, and they get mad. It’s like a microcosm of the world. I can back it up (thanks KF for the screenshots!) and they just kind of huff and get annoyed.
Oddly, at a family gathering last weekend one entire branch confessed they’d not taken the vaccine and there was oooooooooh an awful lot of talk about it, not as in telling them off but a kind of unease at a minor /large ish faction having not obeyed and them not being aware of it previously. Like a kind of shifting of ‘oh shit maybe we were wrong.’
I love them all, it’s frustrating seeing some be so blinkered. I enjoy arguing with the ones who like an argument, and I wish more people were still like that. Argue, then back to normal and make a cuppa and talk about cousin ‘s new baby. How it should be. I do t mind people disagreeing with me one bit, I’m happy to hear a genuine argument of there is one and sometimes they have changed how I think, but there’s fewer and fewer who are like that, they are very entrenched in one side or the other. I can see the propaganda working
I suspect some think I’m nuts, some think I’m right, and some seem to be nervous to even hear such opinions.
Am curious as to how others experience is with this. I’m sure there would have been some fisticuffs if I was younger and male