We all have C-PTSD now
Thank you, Republican cult
Full disclosure: I have C-PTSD from many things, including being raised by people who believed in spreading the evil god of Christians, and the Bush era (senior then junior). But it was Trump’s bullshit that killed my dad with COVID-19, and alienated me from my family, who are suckers for a too good to be true set of alternate fear-mongering/insane and impossible promises.
I wanted to believe the adults in the room. The ones who promised everything would be alright. Truth is those people are pretty full of shit.
Republicanism is also suicide. As things stand in 2024, the Republican Party is nothing but a cult of people who want the world to end with everyone in it miserable and fighting.
I am intimately familiar with human ignorance, having been infected with it. My parents ensured that. I know my dad’s dad was an alcoholic, and his mom became a “true believer” and “Cookie Gramma” at the same time. Hope springs eternal. Paul died. Sarah died. They died alo…
