My youngest daughter just graduated from high school and my wife's sisters came to celebrate the occasion. My daughter is a huge Trump supporter and going into into business at WVU. My SIL teaches at BU in the Social Work Masters Program, her husband runs the largest non-profit in RI and their youngest daughter just graduated from Simmons in Boston in Social Work.
My niece does not identify as woman, as she does not believe in gender identity and is very active in Bernies campaign. Her parter (her girlfriend) of two years went to Cal-Berkley and is SJW when she is not trying to make it in the music industry as a music producer. She asked my kids not to use gender specific language and refer to has in non gender terms.
My wife, her other sister from TX, very conservative and my 3 kids (youngest, older daughter is a Sr at WVU and my son who works in NYC) are pretty balanced in thought and thoughtful not to talk politics with their family as they know it will cause conflict.
Anyways, here are just a couple of things I learned this weekend:
My niece does not identify as woman, as she does not believe in gender identity and is very active in Bernies campaign. Her parter (her girlfriend) of two years went to Cal-Berkley and is SJW when she is not trying to make it in the music industry as a music producer. She asked my kids not to use gender specific language and refer to has in non gender terms.
My wife, her other sister from TX, very conservative and my 3 kids (youngest, older daughter is a Sr at WVU and my son who works in NYC) are pretty balanced in thought and thoughtful not to talk politics with their family as they know it will cause conflict.
Anyways, here are just a couple of things I learned this weekend:
- Trump should be impeached for running an ad in 1989 supporting the prosecution on the Central Park 5. Never mind that the Mayor, the Chief of Police and the DA were all Dems. They went on to say that this happens to blacks all of the time. Racism is rampant everywhere except or the coasts.
- WVU is an OK school, they hope my kids are getting a balanced education. They are questioning why my girls want to go to WVU and ask them point blank if I am forcing them to go there. (They graduated from WLU, Masters from Washington U, PHD from UCONN.)
- The USA leads the world in infant mortality rates, when we refuted that, they came back with mothers mortality death rate are the worst in the USA. Fact is we have the best mortality rates across the board within the best 5%.
- They are thinking about moving to Italy because healthcare is free and better than the USA.
- The Gov. should be able to force mental health patients into mental hospitals if deemed a threat by a social services agency (like the non-profit the BIL runs) and signed off by a family court judge (their best friend). I commented that Reagan actually set policy in the early 70's and once in office dramatically changed the mental health landscape of community health centers. I was told that I don't know what I was talking about. I thought I would get browny points for blaming something on Reagan.
- My niece told us she advised her friend who was thinking about bartending to pick up some extra cash to stay away from nice hotels and nice restaurants because rich people don't tip. She went on to claim that working class people tip better because they care about people more than rich people who are the scum of the earth (actual statement). My son who bartended in college chimed in that the only people who don't tip are college students!
- My BIL asked me why their are so many estates in our little township and I said that we have one of the lowest property tax rates in PA. He said, wow, those rich people sure can buy the best lobbyists. I replied that our township did that to attract new families and it has worked well to generate revenue, he just rolled his eyes. When I added that well, we do have a 1% income tax which off-sets that a little, he said, that's good.
