Advice Wanted: Closet Conservative

[Adrenaline_6]

Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.

[3 AE]

Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.

Well said, very well said.

[Mozart]

Thanks for the quotes and further advice.

The decision to move is in no way my preference during times like these. It’s for my wife’s’ mental health and family relationships, and because we both have parents who all of a sudden decided to get old and have trouble getting around. Good news is this part of VA is booming for houses, and even better because rural properties are in super high demand. We spoke to our realtor, she said this place will probably sell within 6 hours for above asking price, that’s how crazy it is right now.

Back to the Wife: her family is VERY conservative Christian, and I believe before this decade is out, will be banned from attending their church by the state. Maybe then they’ll all want to pack up and we can all relocate somewhere free again. (This isn’t a crazy paranoid delusion, it has happened: in NYC, no religious gatherings of more than 10, but Floyd “protestors” gathering in the thousands are not being charged. In other words, if you have an approved worldview, you are free to go. If you engage in wrongthink, you will be prosecuted.)

The things we sacrifice for our loved ones.

[Hank6046]

Thanks for the quotes and further advice.

The decision to move is in no way my preference during times like these. It’s for my wife’s’ mental health and family relationships, and because we both have parents who all of a sudden decided to get old and have trouble getting around. Good news is this part of VA is booming for houses, and even better because rural properties are in super high demand. We spoke to our realtor, she said this place will probably sell within 6 hours for above asking price, that’s how crazy it is right now.

Back to the Wife: her family is VERY conservative Christian, and I believe before this decade is out, will be banned from attending their church by the state. Maybe then they’ll all want to pack up and we can all relocate somewhere free again. (This isn’t a crazy paranoid delusion, it has happened: in NYC, no religious gatherings of more than 10, but Floyd “protestors” gathering in the thousands are not being charged. In other words, if you have an approved worldview, you are free to go. If you engage in wrongthink, you will be prosecuted.)

The things we sacrifice for our loved ones.

Thanks for sharing. I was born in the Bay Area and grew up on the left coast in mainly Seattle suburbs, and a suburb of Saint Paul, only son of a single mom who was in education. Needless to say I was raised uber liberal. I remember when my aunt told me she voted Republican and I couldn't look at her the same way, I was maybe 14 at the time. I have since gotten out of liberal la-la land and totally changed my perspective.
Having said all of that, I would let things work their way out. My best friend growing up went out and bought a gun just over a year ago, after they had an attempted break in while he was home. Next he got a permit to carry after someone threatened him for his cell phone in a parking garage and it took the cops over 45 minutes to respond. Now they have had curfew in for the last few weeks and the wine bar down the street from their house was robbed at gun point.
My friends used to look at me like I was the strange guy from the Police Academy movies who loved guns, now they look at me as a father of 3 who is quite successful comparatively and isn't worried about my kids going out and running around the neighborhood.