Category: 04 – Digging That Hole – people becoming untethered from reality

I changed the way I share on Facebook. I exclude those I love but don’t want to unfriend or engage with on political or Covid subjects. We are becoming more and more isolated.

I managed to temporarily block and hide my family’s posts all through the Trump presidency, and I would sort of engage with them, but was still careful not to rock the boat too much. Then in the past few weeks, a switch has flipped and IDGAF! I’m starting fights with everyone! Fuck ‘em! If they’re… Continue reading alise i.

It sucks but I’ve found I just have to cut them off. For my own mental health I can’t keep that toxic stuff in my life.

My husband is from an Amish background. I didn’t realize how rampant these theories seem to be in that culture. It has been very difficult to have these conversations with him. We’ve gone from gun rights, to vaccines, to stolen elections. All I can say at the end of it is that I am glad… Continue reading anonymous

I thought a lot about how to summarize, and this is what I came up with: I am dismayed to find that when the conspiracy theories tie into right-wing rhetoric as it relates to things like racism, Covid and climate change denialism, etc., that my self-concept of allowing people to have their own opinions isn’t… Continue reading lizzie m.

Once upon a time I was a registered Republican. I have always been humanitarian-leaning, but at that time I naively and erroneously believed that the Right was the way. In my circles I am now the token liberal. At work it’s ok, there’s mutual respect and we don’t talk politics … much. But with many… Continue reading anonymous

Who knew that something like a pandemic would also bring a surge in conspiracy theories? We have known there are the conspiracy theorists among us, but the pandemic caused a more extreme uprising and almost migration of types. I found myself cut off from many of them, because I spewed science and public health information… Continue reading anonymous

My father is a diehard Republican and Fox viewer. He is also a devout Catholic. It is difficult to reconcile the good moral person I know with the beliefs of the party he will never veer from. Put an ‘R’ after someone’s name and he will vote for them regardless of how opposite their actions… Continue reading anonymous

My sister’s boyfriend has become obsessed with all conspiracies over the last year and a half. It started off harmless, but now has impacted my sister’s life so much that I fear for the safety of her and her two kids. Obsessed with Trump and how he will come back and win and he’s doing… Continue reading anonymous

I think what is so hard to articulate is how drastically people succumbed to all the rhetoric. We watched those we loved and served shoulder to shoulder with accept indecency after indecency, swallow half truth after half truth, and follow blindly every and any conspiracy theory. They have become numb to facts and have disposed… Continue reading shelia b.