how did the older posters here avoid being radicalized by Faux and AM hate radio?

[Marthe48]

82. Turned the channel

Didn't listen to spew from liars

Maybe my other thoughts have an impact. People who have had an easy ride don't emphasize with people who have faced adversity, loss, bad luck. If you don't live through bad times, it is easier to blame people for choices they made, or lack of ambition. Blame the victim. I think most of the r fascists not only have skated in life, but take a sadistic delight in kicking people who are down. The people who support them are down, getting kicked, but if they can kick someone else, they get a lift.

Show me any r who has suffered in their personal life. When kasuck was 35, he lost his parents in a car accident, but I don't see that he gained empathy. Maybe he was too old and set for that kind of loss to penetrate the r facade. dewine lost a daughter in an accident, but again, it didn't change his outlook.

People like President Biden, Rep. Raskin, who suffered devastating losses, and the courageous female representatives who talk about their rape, their decisions to terminate a pregancy, and other details of their private lives, indicate that even though they suffered, they really did learn to live with their losses, and use the experience to be better, kinder people. You can be a leader and have strength and compassion.

Anyway, I think all r's suck. I didn't used to think like that, but from relatives, personal friends, and public figures, they show the same unpleasant personalty traits, and I don't want to be around them.