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Ol Janx Spirit

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33. My wife's late grandmother used to go on rants to me about how horrible FDR was for...

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Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:10 AM

Dec 2025

...America, and I used to just think, 'what is wrong with you old lady?'

She was the first person that really introduced me to the conservative brain worm. She absolutely hated the New Deal. Otherwise she seemed nice and very normal.

It was my own grandmother that hated desegregation. I learned from her that you actually don't have to love just anyone that you are related to--unfortunately.

It wasn't until the ACA and the TEA Party that I really realized how deeply damaged conservatives were.

It has been a downward spiral from there. I've given up there being an actual bottom to this rabbit hole. It feels more like a black hole threatening to spaghettify and tear apart both our democracy and the way of life it has provided.

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