How much does politics/ political action impact the way you raise your kids? I mean, it does present a plethora of opportunities to explore how not to act towards one another. Having said that, I don't understand or possibly deliberately disagree with the guilt and shame some of you embrace. We have multiple threads in this board discussing the opportunities our kids have had, and they are not gone because of the cheeto king or any of the other bad actors in Washington or Austin.
Just because something emanates from our politicians, whether it is racism, greed, hate, whatever..., fuck em. The kids are looking at you first and handling dipshit behavior is part of that. There's more than a handful of items where our "leaders" act a certain way, and our kids knew, that ain't how we fucking act/ conduct ourselves.
Are we supposed to be inspired by our politicians? Possibly, but I am not and have not been for most of my adult life. Are there still basic principles that drive success? You betcha, and the politicians don't control that shit either. We can either sit around and feel sorry for ourselves and wait for hope to come from Washington...LMAO; or get off our asses and make something happen. Lotsa folks appear to be scared of the color yellow. Be better. Convey an ounce of self confidence... or dwell in mamby-pamby land. Your reaction to the bullshit has a bigger impact than the actual bullshit, IMHO.