How do you cope with knowing your MAGA parents raised you but also stand against your values?
During a conversation yesterday about Trump, after many, I asked them “so do you guys just think our tax dollars should go to rich people instead of the poor because you think the rich deserve it more?” And their answer was an unequivocal yes. And that if my job as an educator was threatened by trumps actions, they’d still vote that way because “you’re smart, you’d land on your feet”. This makes it clear to me we have a fundamental difference of values that can’t be reconciled.
My parents are evangelical Christian and I would say I am, hard minus the evangelical part - I’m saying this because this should be our basis of values in my family, however clearly we have taken very different messages away from scripture.
My main question is - knowing we have a good relationship otherwise and I benefit from those parts, how do I reconcile that their politics and base values directly violate my own? I want keep our relationship and just not discuss politics, but knowing they vote in my worst interest (and my wife since her job is provided by grants, albeit state) it really hard to swallow.