As my Mum has gotten older, she has gone from being virtually a hippy chick to a nasty racist bigot.
I pleaded and begged her not to vote out. I explained it would have a material effect on me and everything around our family.
She replied she'd had enough of muslim this and polish that and so on.
I may have many bad character flaws but racism and bigotery are not in my nature.
Her actions have pushed me away and she doesn't seem to understand that it is not going to change. I really cannot deal with listening to the tirade of xenophobic crap she comes out with. Her voting to leave has also incensed me. It was so inconsiderate of her when I pick up the tab for her house and now a lot of my earning streams are threatened.
In between all of this my Dad is as ill as ever and needs care, and she's asking me why I don't visit more often. The truth is I cannot deal with all of the bigotery.
I know it sounds like I am being an arse but these are fundamental beliefs I hold.
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Its easy to forget but our country was a very different place when this generation grew up.
In my experience the older people get they lose their inhibitions and really start to speak their mind. Sometimes clearly without thinking first.
It sounds like your Mum has a lot to deal with as well so maybe you can excuse her the odd vent?
I don't think it's worth falling out over - probably easier said than done but try and laugh it off.
Your Mum's vote hasn't potentially affected your income streams - over half the voting public have...
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I think you should accept her choice. I imagine she's been accepting of some of your life choice in the past?
I'm starting to sound too sensible now...
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The country we live in is not the same country that they grew up in.
My own mother says that her father ,a decorated military hero of both wars would be "spinning " in his grave if he could see what he fought for !
Although my friends parents are well educated and travelled they have a mindset that was cast in 1950 s Britain.........it goes beyond the xenophobia, which is a more appropriate description than Racism because they are not actually viciously racist ;
They find it awful how children are so spoilt ( when they should be seen and not heard ) ,they can't get their head around the fact that an intelligent 30 year old can be a Director of a company or an MP etc when they should still be an apprentice !
They find Property prices "ridiculous telephone numbers " , and simply don't believe the figures that some City types earn as if it's a made-up conspiracy to inspire people.
They dismiss the Vexacious compensation culture as some "American Nonsense " and cannot understand how people contemplate driving 50 miles to work as a commute when, in their day, that would have been a major Sunday outing that was planned ,the car was greased,sandwiches and tea flasks made and a tartan travelling rug packed !
It is simply that they are as misplaced in a society that has accelerated so fast in the last 20 years as William the Conqueror would have been had he been teleported into the Industrial revolution -The rate of change ,Socio and Economic has been so rapid in the recent past that more has happened and changed in 20 years than it did from 1700 to 1900 - they have been left behind by the pace and movement of populations ,ease of travel etc . They are not bad but they are relics.
What you may see as racist attitudes may actually reflect how she feels, and normally not a problem as it doesn't normally live on the surface. and what she feels may be as a result of very strong propaganda and indoctrination from a time where it may have been less enlightened or used as a way to keep a country working in a certain way.
I'm sorry that the Brexit is affecting your business activities - although all our political parties being in turmoil does as much damage too....as well as fucking bankers manipulating things this way and that to earn a quick buck (even at the expense of their country)....and the EU politicians are going to behave like a jilted girlfriend towards us for a while and act like the UK can go fuck itself as it no longer wanted to play nice.
My own family is all from the North East and Yorkshire and those areas garnered a HUGE Brexit vote - as much to pay back Cameron etc & the stuck up Tory toffs who had destroyed their areas, marginalised them and then ignored and left them to rot for a generation or two.
As you know I grew up in Brixton, Croydon and South London so my attitudes are a little more Metropolitan to say the least but I do understand.
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