With all that has happened in the past few years - people are clinging to what they were told and believed, it's their only comfort. If they look at reality, they simply can't handle it. As much as I want more people to wake up, the elderly have my heart in many ways - because it is just TOO big to take in for them. They are too old, too tired, too confused, too everything to make that shift easily...

When I was a nursing student, we had a rotation thru an old folks home. Broke my heart. Many were senile and lived in a world that made them happy - some still thought they were getting up to milk cows, or cook a big breakfast for a farm crew and family, some still thought they rocked a baby instead of a pillow, etc. They were happy. The care center wanted us to reorient them - force them to realize reality, and it made the elderly SO SAD for no reason.

I've never forgotten that.

Not saying your situation is like this, but I give the elderly a buffer on reality. Esp today :(

On the flip side, I bet you a buck, most of the folk on AU are what you would call - old - and from what I have seen, old WOMEN...

Because old women are ruthless, and, have seen the evil of the world use them, and abuse them... they are on the pointy end fighting back.