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In reply to the discussion: I can't believe how much my family has changed after being brainwashed by the GOP. [View all]lunasun
(21,646 posts)45. I have lost 2 friends too & they would not stop mentioning RW talk points so I now avoid them
like the plague.
One was never political minded at all until about a year ago - always would say "not his thing " until recently.
I am saved from what ever racial bigotry that blossomed along the way I can only assume,.
I wish they would stop calling me even occasionally because neither can form more that one or two sentences with out going all RW on some subject now
Also neither are well versed debaters (which I do not mind having a honest discussion with someone ) just mean spirited .
So many things are just lies and very stupid so there is no point in countering the philosophy they live by now
I only know I have not changed - it really is them and all of a sudden they are obsessed
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I can't believe how much my family has changed after being brainwashed by the GOP. [View all]
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
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And they have lost the ability to look at themselves. It is like how Hitler got all those
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#4
You may enjoy Wrapped in The Flag author C Conner She came from a RW family and has a lot
lunasun
Oct 2013
#75
I did write that back to her. And she just called and tried to defend herself and said that those
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#6
Bullies frequently say their victims 'can't take a joke.' It's how they justify their behavior.
Shrike47
Oct 2013
#14
On the bright side, she did a good job raising you. Keep at her. There's a decent person under the
Squinch
Oct 2013
#15
I blame television for a lot of this, too. It's all cruelty and humiliation now.
arcane1
Oct 2013
#7
Can he drink a glass of red wine a night? I've been reading that besides all its other benefits
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#143
I have noticed this phenoma also the longer the commute the more right wing they are
kimbutgar
Oct 2013
#57
I know I like to listen to talk radio because it feels like someone is with me.
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#141
She is 82 and very active, has friends and lives with her boyfriend. I can trace this all to the
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#16
I have lost 2 friends too & they would not stop mentioning RW talk points so I now avoid them
lunasun
Oct 2013
#45
Right wing media doesn't really provide actual arguments, just "talking points" and buzzwords.
Mayberry Machiavelli
Oct 2013
#128
The latest from the GOP is they are the heroes of white people being in charge.
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2013
#19
Exactly - they are forming the Radical White as a voting base who will make sure only insecure white
lunasun
Oct 2013
#39
What's most disgusting about all of this is seeing Democrats trying to save them.
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2013
#52
What would happen if you just got him a dog? Get a puppy from the pound. It will start
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#142
I saw your post before but I missed the part about your mother. I am really
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#146
The American Far Right® has been actively cultivating cruelty and intolerance for years now.
Enthusiast
Oct 2013
#32
I read years ago that in the 50's the CIA developed techniques to brainwash people subliminally
kimbutgar
Oct 2013
#61
"Heritage - not Hate"? There heritage is that they lost the war. There heritage is that they
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#147
Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and the whole right-wing infotainment industrial complex who created a false
Douglas Carpenter
Oct 2013
#69
Oh yes. And she tells me how she has always been a republican and I remind her
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#73
I feel your pain, I am probably the only one in my family who is still Democrat or at least I am the
Thinkingabout
Oct 2013
#78
I've seen a mean, racist streak surface in older white people I've known for years.
Arugula Latte
Oct 2013
#81
Americans have been subjected to hundreds-of-thousands of hours of "false advertising" by ...
JEFF9K
Oct 2013
#86
until the americans stop giving 1200 coordinated corporate kkk radio stations a free speech
certainot
Oct 2013
#89
my one brother ... what it had done to him ... and his wife or vice versa. sad.
Tuesday Afternoon
Oct 2013
#92
re:I can't believe how much my family has changed after being brainwashed by the GOP.
allan01
Oct 2013
#110
This is why who owns the media MATTERS. DU'er's should be fighting tooth and nail to
snot
Oct 2013
#126
I kicked and Recommended you DU post and I am saving the information you just gave
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#140
I have grown old and haven't been brainwashed by rw shit. It is these people's f'g choice
DeschutesRiver
Oct 2013
#137