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It’s clearly easier to feel as though you’re honoring your parents when you have great respect because you genuinely see them as admirable. But we all also see our parent’s flaws. For those of us who have a situation where our parent’s flaws had tremendous impact on us we have to work out our feelings and thoughts and memories across years. But it is totally possible to come to recognize and respect their good qualities whilst also honestly facing that the flaws existed and had to be reckoned with.

The hardest version of this is when a parent was totally lacking in redeeming qualities. In such a case all there is to fall back on is to respect their position (of parent) as having a legitimate place and at the same time refusing to lie to oneself about how bad the individual was in the role. They still produced our life. There is still something there to honor while acknowledging the terrible stuff. It’s good for our future existence to come to terms with that place they hold as our progenitor.

I’m glad to be able to say that at least in the area where “boomers” get some of the most understandable hate, politics, my dad had good political reasoning and I benefitted from witnessing that. Although technically he wasn’t a boomer anyway and I recall him not liking the hippies who later became all of the decades of bad politics that now paint the boomer generation in the light they are now reputationally stuck in. But my mom was born at the end of 45 so although she wasn’t technically one of the babies of the big baby boom of returning soldier fathers she gets grouped with that generation and she wasn’t a part of any of that cr@p either.

The boomer generation did ok in some ways despite their millions of flaws and their utterly disregard for the past they should have honored, and it is wild and bizarre to see people online say “ok boomer” to a million different things they don’t like regardless of if those things are even a small part of the main picture of the hippies and their later politics that caused the most harm. It’s from a position of doing the exact opposite of the above mentioned processes of learning to respect their position and their admirable bits (admittedly a difficult task) while facing the consequences of the flaws.

The younger generations desperately need to find a pathway to correcting millions of things within their heuristics. It’s not their fault that they were so badly setup to ever be able to develop any wisdom and understanding. (And that in, in part, is due to the ungodly boomers who were their parents or grandparents and their myriad empty and foolish philosophies. But it is their problem to now face and overcome if there is to be any hope for them.

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We see the truth of all the people who care only about black lives and now can say more clearly than I could in 2020 what is wrong with that very segregationist sounding mantra, Black Lives Matter. There are two things I now know about people who care about only one race or are willing to sound like they do (AND people who judge by prejudicial thinking giving to one race or another. ) they are guilty of “othering” and they do not care about human lives at all.

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Wednesday LIVE with Allie Beth Stuckey, David Limbaugh, and Frank TurekEvangelicals voted 82-17 for Trump in 2024, made up 27% of the electo

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