People who think a movie about plastic dolls.

[Backseat Driver]

63. How my "willfully ignorant" fundie zealots family were registered Dems at their end

is beyond me. I'd bet that pointed rage toward GQP would be okay, though? I tried to help by following rules I had learned; then I, the apparent scapegoat of their discontent, tried to escape all people without rage boundaries when they asked me never to speak to them again. Speak?--I wouldn't listen either! More familially infectious than a pandemic they were, and I naive. So when you finally sever the lies and gaslighting, it's difficult to live with one's consequences for attempting to be kind, compassionate, and utterly failing to make a dent; just give them what they claimed they've always wanted. Just never stopped trying to learn better ways of living, practical in the challenge, yet kind, but that's always left me anxious and frustrated on the journey of past, present, and future, so if I rant it's because I'm still pretty gullible to the "learned" authoritarian parts of my past. I apologize! that I have no kindness for that betrayal anymore!

DARK series (Netflix) character says you die 3 times: 1st when you lose naivete; 2nd when you lose innocence; 3rd time for good when you end up a "twinkle." Back then, you were adult at 21; I entered "woke" at 19 by not following their rules any longer. The signs of the 3rd death coming soon are all around; everything's connected. Maybe? Why? keep being the questions I need answered - What method will fate choose. I've needed some better mantras to change what's fated for me in my world; to accept the seeded responsibilities, to trust and accept the consequences of "staying too long at the fair," by "obeying their rules." that I willingly chose not soon enough and then promised in error. DU supports me accepting the consequences, past and present...I still hope for the future though what may come before that time is indeed pretty terrifying.