**Background** My aunt has been a big part of my life since the day I was born, and has become essentially a second mother. Both my parents are divorced, but they still get along perfectly fine. In fact, for many years, we had a schedule where my brother and I would go back and forth to my dad's and mom's house. Nowadays, whenever my mom needs something done, my dad and I are the ones driving over to help out at her house. My mom comes over every once in a while for dinner. My dad said it's thanks to my aunt that it ended up this way, since she's actually a divorce lawyer. Beyond that, she's been heavily involved in my education, and has actually managed to get me out of certain classes she deemed as "non-essential". Unfortunately social studies classes didn't count. Growing up, we also had a baby sitter that acted as a third mother. Once she left, my aunt took the role of preparing dinner for us. Until recent years, and especially before the pandemic, this system worked pretty well. I got both the love of a mother, and a father that would drag me out of the house and get me moving when I didn't want to. **Politics** When it came to politics, convincing my parents and my aunt of any redpill dropped over the last 5 years has been unsuccessful. She and my parents both trust the media 100%, especially CNN. My brother and I are forced to watch it with them almost every night at dinner, no exceptions. Other times it's the local news, but that can be just as unbearable. It hasn't torn the family apart, but it has lead to several confrontations over the years. My aunt in particular is very adamant in her beliefs and has no room for debate. Let me give you a recent example. Before the capitol siege on January 6th, my aunt and I had a debate about the Proud Goys, Burn Loot Murder, and Pantifa. She said that the Proud Goys were just as much of a threat as the people burning down businesses all last summer. "Actually, a lot of those times, far right groups were infiltrating antifa and blm to cause chaos!" I asked her if there was a single instance of that happening, in which she replied "The FBI has done investigations on it!", to which I asked "And have there been any results from that? Has there once been a single article on far right groups infiltrating peaceful left wing protests and then proceeding to burn businesses down?" She paused for about 5 seconds before admitting that there was not any. Fast forward to the 6th, and she called me to rub it in my face that right wing groups are in fact just as dangerous! "Rioters last year didn't storm a government building!" I was tempted to mention the ICE building in Portland was vandalized every night, but I knew she would simply say that the capitol building is of far more importance. **The Breaking Point** I decided to discuss with my aunt about days of rage and the capitol bombing of 1983. A woman named Susan Rosenberg was arrested after authorities found a large cache of explosives and firearms over 750 lbs and automatic weapons in her car. She was supposed to serve 58 years in prison, but only served 19 because Bill Clinton pardoned her on his last day in office. Why? No one fucking knows because [he never gave a reason](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107shrg76344/html/CHRG-107shrg76344.htm). I also noted how this woman went on to become a part of the board of directors for Burn Loot Murder. Her response was "That's a good thing! That means she's changed and is trying to do better! People can change!" To add a bit of spice on top of this, we had another discussion about [a man arrested in Canada after his neighbor reported on him for having 7 people in his home when he was only allowed to have up to 6](https://web.archive.org/web/20210103160526/https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/03/americas/canada-covid-19-lockdown-arrests/index.html). She was perfectly okay with the man getting arrested since he could have gotten other people sick. Want more? I got more! In our most recent conversation, I talked about how Garda, Ireland's police force, [were giving fines to people for "non-essential travel"](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/covid-19-about-1-500-fines-issued-for-non-essential-travel-over-past-two-weeks-1.4467518). She's perfectly fine with this as well. I asked her if she would be fine with checkpoints here in the US, and she replied "It depends on the reason. Something like this pandemic is a good reason." I then asked her "And do you think it would be temporary?", in which she replied "Yes." In conclusion, is this woman even worth my time? She's been a big part of my life, and I do love her since she's family. However, it's become apparent to me that she doesn't hold any pro-American values. She's also very controlling over my life, specifically with my school work and how I take care of myself. I hope all of that changes once I get my degree...