cartoonjohn: jedilegacied: sonneillonv: sniperct: ralfmaximus: My dad was a straight-ticket Democrat
cartoonjohn: jedilegacied: sonneillonv: sniperct: ralfmaximus: My dad was a straight-ticket Democrat, gave money to the ACLU, and left the Catholic church when his local parish prioritized a new, bigger church over hungry parishioners. He was VERY liberal. He voted for Al Gore in 2000. In 2004 (when he was 75yo) an injury forced him to spend time at an assisted living facility for rehab. The TVs there were all tuned to Fox News. All it took was six months. Upon his release that’s all he watched. He obsessed over Fox. Became convinced liberals were out to destroy HIS America. From 2004 onwards I watched my liberal dad – the guy who imbued me with my beliefs and values – decline into a ranting, angry, hateful person. He almost died alone because I told him I simply could NOT stand to hear any more about how Obama was ruining the country. He relented, and I said goodbye to him in 2011 at his hospice, only because we agreed not to discuss “politics”. Fox News is pure 100% brainwashing. I’ve seen it up close, and it is evil. It wasn’t Fox News with my dad, it was another evil.Talk Radio.The far right has pretty much taken over talk radio and monopolized it, and through it radicalized a lot of people.My dad worked nights, driving, so he listened to a lot of this crap. Rush Limbaugh and even worse people.There’s like, nothing on the left even close to the amount of ears these people can reach, every day and every night, spewing their hatred and their vile thoughts.Talk Radio is Fox News on steroids and both are evils that need to be addressed. It’s important to recognize the way people are radicalized and find ways to counter it. Non-rp related but let me just tel you how this hurts as a half Mexican girl to watch your white police officer father become so deeply entrenched in hate from both of these sources because they are all he will listen to or watch. To go from your hero who did good in your eyes and who cried the one time he had to kill in the line of duty to save a woman’s life to a racist bigoted evil human being who disowns you for worrying about him getting sick because he’s diabetic and won’t go out with a mask or take any precautions. These outlets are vile and I wish there was a way to u do the poison they put into the world. My uncle is intrenched in this garbage day and night. When the TV is on, it’s Fox. When the Radio is on, it’s Limbaugh. At all hours of the day he willingly pumps their mindless propaganda into his head, to the point where it seems that not a moment of his life can go by without hearing about the latest thing threatening to “destroy America” this week. He was apparently not always this way, as my Dad has told me, but the soft spoken, well meaning man my Dad knew was another person in another time. -- source link