Oh, I'll keep reminding the ones I know who did. One of them is a narcissist who cannot admit he has ever done anything wrong or apologize for it. I call him dad.

Welcome to my trauma dump.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

This is going to be the problem. If the country is going to come together we have to be able to forgive and start building bridges together.

But I've watched Republicans say that too many times then stab us in the back by tripling down on partisanship I don't see the path forward because I'm VERY much in the same boat.

I don't have an answer to make it better unfortunately.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 57 minutes ago

we have to be able to forgive and start building bridges together

This is a nice-sounding sentiment, but in practice it just means not prosecuting Republican crimes during the brief periods when Democrats have a small bit of power. I'd be happy to forgive Republicans ... after they've been frog-marched to prison. Letting them off the hook has always meant they just come back worse than ever.

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I can forgive the ones who say "I don't know what I was thinking". I can forgive the ones who say "I was tricked" or "I was not paying attention" or "I believed he blah blah blah". I can forgive the ones who are remorseful, and the ones who work to undue the damage they caused.

People like my father will never admit they were wrong, they will double down, they will tell me everybody is the same and we would have come to the same outcome. They will never admit they were wrong, they will never apologize, because they will always find an excuse to justify themselves.