I have cousins in Ohio who support Trump. I know from their Facebook posts.

[upaloopa]

We are all in our late 60's or early 70's in age. When we were growing up all our parents voted Democratic and were in unions working in factories around Dayton.

I really don't know how they went from that to being able to support Trump.

I posted on Facebook, "If after all this you still support Trump, I really don't know you."

It is really depressing to know you have family that could be supporting someone like Trump.

[WillyBrandt]

1. Tell them to vote on November 28

Otherwise, I'd ignore them. Unless you think you can convert one of them to sanity, they're probably too far gone. Don't be shocked, too, if they turn against the guy in 2-3 months after he loses and the fever breaks.

Just my unsolicited advice -- mixing up family and politics likely isn't going to do much to improve either.

[Hortensis]

3. Lol, and agree with giving them time to...defervesce.

[Hortensis]

17. Except, perhaps, when they're watching your children.

My DIL just told me a friend isn't at work this week because they had to fire their babysitter. Apparently the woman was wonderful with the children when they were babies and very small children, but they recently learned she's started instructing them on politics -- from the view of a Hillary-deranged conservative. Apparently they're your typical good Christian conservatives, but definitely not her type, and filling their children with this kind of poison was totally unacceptable.

In any case, they'd instructed her that she was not to do that but were checking with their children to see what she was telling them. There were some more things and some more talks. Then last weekend or so their son said that the FBI director probably found Hillary "not guilty" because he was afraid of her, that a lot of people around Hillary had died and probably been murdered. And then when they found he didn't believe their explanation, that was it.

I'm guessing this kind of thing may be happening a lot of places. Last year I heard some people up here changed their church when it turned into something of a Trump-flavored ministry. Don't know them, but that can be a very big deal when so much social and even family life revolves around church.

[Wounded Bear]

4. And add, of course, that it is important to stay home Nov 8...

to protect their guns. Obama is coming for them that day. Once you guns are secure, be there bright and early on the 28th. Lines could be long.

[SharonClark]

18. Love it!

[upaloopa]

5. I used to not want to mix family and politics. I moved to CA in 1982 from Dayton.

When I go back to visit and we have a get together they start in on the racist right wing bull shit. This happen last month when my brother and I went back to visit. We are sitting around the kitchen table and out comes the bull shit like we all agree or something.

I just can't do it anymore.

[WillyBrandt]

14. Is your family self-aware enough to agree to not talk politics?

We've done that in my family: no talking about religion/politics, and it's not ideal, but it works OK....

[upaloopa]

15. Some are but some are not so at a get together

there is a mix.

[meadowlark5]

2. I have a friend I lost touch with but we have recently been texting to get together again

We used to work together and our kids are the same age. We used to hang out together all of the time, then kids and school made us too busy to always get together.

So a few months ago we began to text requests to get together. This person has since gotten a FB account and all there is is shared Trump videos and articles. She has a daughter and I cannot believe she supports that slob. I knew she was republican but seemed moderate, reasonable. No one reasonable supports Trump. Angry, paranoid, and one of these, bigoted, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist or all of the above.

I'm in no hurry for a get together.

[Botany]

6. If you can keep them as friends but the power of Rush, Fox, and other right wing outlets ....

.... is very strong. They have been told that Hillary is a crook and that Obama is
a Muslim so many times they now have come to believe it. In Ohio the reach of
the right wing has been massive. Did you know that President Obama wants to
bring Hamas fighters to the U.S. w/the help of the UN in order to take away people's
guns?

[bettyellen]

10. It may sound elitist but when all is said and done, I can't hang with mean or willfully stupid....

They always fuck up and try to drag you down with them.
And even when they're doing okay, there's an ugliness to being in their presence I can't abide. I'm happy to pay the premium to be in a liberal area where I can find kind educated people to spend time with. Life is too short!

[SharonClark]

19. Agree 100%

[bettyellen]

20. I feel sorry for them- but that's why I'm in favor of improving education and reproductive health

Care!

[PatSeg]

7. Yes, I know some people like that

They were Democrats back in the 1960s and union workers. They started to lean Tea Party when Obama was elected and appeared to get all their information from Fox News. I'm sure the transformation began back in the 1990s and gradually escalated over the years. I don't know if they can be deprogrammed at this point, but they probably think people like me are brainwashed as well.

[Fast Walker 52]

8. I know the feeling. I have some relatives in NY and PA who support Trump

I've gone back and forth with them on Facebook.... they really do see the world differently. One older female cousin is in incredible denial about Trump being a racist or sexist. They are all super anti-Hillary and very pro-nationalism.

[Third Doctor]

9. I do too

I have a friend on FB that supports Trump. I have not defriended him but I don't receive any of his posts or uploads.

[PunksMom]

11. My very best friend of 42 years, is a tRump supporter.

We agreed to disagree on politics, & DO NOT even discuss them. I'm disappointed that she was once liberal, & is now falling for his building a wall. I have to tell you, she's no dummy, just doesn't like immigrants. SMH😕

[Hoyt]

12. After 6 months of heated Facebook posts with a 50 year high school mate, I think she just unfriended

me last night.

She's a birther, believes the Clintons murdered people in the states, is a racist, hates "socialists," posts racist memes, etc. All her kids are just like her. There was a leader of the Klan in the 50s who lived where we grew up. I think she might have had an affair with him.

Anyway, two nights ago, her inbred -- I'm not exaggerating -- grandson threatened to hunt me down with consequences. I told him he was a sick kid, his grandma and I were able to debate heatedly without threats, and he needed to think about the consequences of public threats, etc.

Finally, I think she's unfriended me, or whatever you call it. I would have done the same to her white wing crud months ago but I just couldn't let here continue to post junk without responding. I'm glad she apparently has wised up and realized things have gone to far when one's inbred, racist grandkid is making threats. Glad she's gone, without me pulling the plug.

I still expect a cross burning on my front yard, or worse, but that's OK.

There definitely a lot of irrational people out there and Trump is purposely inciting them.

[jehop61]

13. As do I

Sadly I can only hope after the election, we can talk again

[DFW]

16. Don't bet on it

The kind of person described in the OP will be convinced for the next 4 years that "the election was rigged." Against them, it goes without saying. It would never enter into their heads that maybe a majority of the country preferred someone other than their hairy cartoon character to sit in the Oval Office.

[helpisontheway]

21. Ton of my FB "Friends" are supporting Trump

They are mainly people that I knew in high school. Anyway, usually every campaign season they constantly post about the Republican nominee. This year? Crickets...crickets...Instead they post pathetic memes about Hillary. Then the other day one of them was whining about the media being biased because they fact check Trump all the time but never Hillary. One of the friends commented and said that is why she only watches Fox. I wanted to say it is because Trump lies every time he opens his mouth but I left it alone. Let them live in their FOX News bubble.

[cynatnite]

22. I have a friend I've known for over 30 years who is a Trump fan...

It breaks my heart every time she throws up a FB post with conspiracy garbage from Breitbart or supporting Trump.

She has a beautiful son with Down's. In person she is just sweet, gives her all to help and just an all around joy to be around.

You wouldn't know unless you were FB friends with her. Even worse, she has no problem justifying Trump's immorality.

I won't unfriend her. We've got history and we've stood by one another through a lot of shit. I love her despite all this.