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

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118. I'm a Boomer who watched my own mother go down the Limbaugh rabbit hole

I thought of her this week while reading about the 80-something gun owner who twice shot the teenager for . . . nothing but turning up at the wrong address. Like the shooter, my mother was in her 80s, living alone and steeped in Ditto-head conspiracy. So much so, we couldn't have a conversation about current events without a huge argument. This from a woman who had been raised and shaped in a Democratic household, who accompanied my grandfather to union and political meetings throughout her childhood. She idolized my grandfather, and yet at the end of her life turned into a lonely, embittered, old woman who believed everything she heard on right-wing radio.

However, unlike the 80-something shooter, my mother did not own a gun.

Thank God, for that! Or I probably would've been left bleeding on my mother's kitchen floor.

The problem is THE GUNS mixed with grievance, hate, fear and nonstop propaganda.

The propaganda is insidious and has poisoned millions of American minds. You add firearms to that?

A catastrophe in the making.