Just spoke with right wing sister.

1) she’s turned against Trek because OMG it’s so woke!! I pointed out that Rodenberry was “woke” way before they called it that, but she’s not persuaded. She swears it’s a new thing.

2) she’s convinced, absolutely stone-cold convinced, that elementary school teachers are trying to turn their students trans, telling the white kids they’re all oppressors and the black kids are all victims. I said nobody does that, it’s a right-wing media invention, nobody’s been able to list a single teacher or school who ever did such a thing, but she’s absolutely convinced it’s totally routine in every school everywhere.

3) she thinks she maybe had covid, but vitamins and ivermectin cured her.

I can’t, I just can’t.

She used to believe in environmental protection, but now it’s just such a burden on industry people can breathe and drink whatevs and who cares. She used to be pro-choice, pro-women’s reproductive rights, but “I’m past menopause, so I don’t care anymore.” Books being pulled out of school libraries because there’s black and hispanic and gay characters, “well, parents can just buy whatever they want their kids to read nobody’s stopping them”

I can’t. I just can’t.