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It gives me hope for the future. Keep working on your family.

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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	OP
The RW Hatemonger Media constantly pounds away with their wedge	lpbk2713	Oct 2013	#1
And they have lost the ability to look at themselves. It is like how Hitler got all those	Maraya1969	Oct 2013	#4
+1932 (approx.)	lunasun	Oct 2013	#35
This is EXACTLY the same.	AAO	Oct 2013	#37
This message was self-deleted by its author	tconer	Oct 2013	#51
Welcome to DU!	GCP	Oct 2013	#54
This message was self-deleted by its author	tconer	Oct 2013	#55
You may enjoy Wrapped in The Flag author C Conner She came from a RW family and has a lot	lunasun	Oct 2013	#75
This message was self-deleted by its author	tconer	Oct 2013	#76
welcome to DU	putitinD	Oct 2013	#79
Welcome to DU. I'm very impressed by your post.	IrishAyes	Oct 2013	#90
Bravo for you, tconer!	johnlucas	Oct 2013	#94
Welcome to DU!	Fumesucker	Oct 2013	#95
Thank you	classykaren	Oct 2013	#106
Welcome to DU tconer.	reflection	Oct 2013	#118
Great honest post.	go west young man	Oct 2013	#123
Perhaps at some point you will expand on your thoughts in an original post.	CrispyQ	Oct 2013	#127
I wish your transformation will happen to more and more people.	BlancheSplanchnik	Oct 2013	#136
Congrats and welcome!	Michigan Alum	Oct 2013	#150
My mom, who is old enough to remember, was just saying this same thing!	Dustlawyer	Oct 2013	#87
not really	hfojvt	Oct 2013	#93
Yup. thats what RW propaganda does to people.	darkangel218	Oct 2013	#2
I know the feeling	Joe Bacon	Oct 2013	#48
I would write back to my mother, repeating what you told us here...	ScreamingMeemie	Oct 2013	#3
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
If you are reading this Maraya	LiberalLovinLug	Oct 2013	#38
Well, thank you.	Squinch	Oct 2013	#66
They get these people in the attack mode	classykaren	Oct 2013	#109
"...can't take a joke."	CrispyQ	Oct 2013	#129
It really is a shame	meadowlark5	Oct 2013	#5
I feel for you	kickitup	Oct 2013	#13
Welcome to DU, kickitup!	calimary	Oct 2013	#21
I could almost imagine a new civil war between right and left	AAO	Oct 2013	#40
I thought the same thing...	KansDem	Oct 2013	#99
I have a client I have worked with weekly for three years.	CrispyQ	Oct 2013	#131
I blame television for a lot of this, too. It's all cruelty and humiliation now.	arcane1	Oct 2013	#7
you are so right, it is truly horrifying nt	Tumbulu	Oct 2013	#85
You have my sympathy.	Ednahilda	Oct 2013	#8
My Father was a Phd, professor, Dept Chair, and Dean at a major state university.	AAO	Oct 2013	#42
My daughter and her husband have a friend like that.	murielm99	Oct 2013	#56
Really makes you wonder about the definition of intelligence.	AAO	Oct 2013	#58
Not Dad.	Ednahilda	Oct 2013	#121
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 don't know if he does now,	Ednahilda	Oct 2013	#151
"Republicans don't have a sense of humor...	alterfurz	Oct 2013	#9
Did anyone of those three,	Shankapotomus	Oct 2013	#10
I have noticed this phenoma also the longer the commute the more right wing they are	kimbutgar	Oct 2013	#57
I listen to NPR and WBIA	Shankapotomus	Oct 2013	#74
Yes!	reflection	Oct 2013	#120
I know where you're going with that.	Blanks	Oct 2013	#80
To a big extent it's because anger is addictive	Fumesucker	Oct 2013	#97
I know I like to listen to talk radio because it feels like someone is with me.	Maraya1969	Oct 2013	#141
I had to drive about an hour (each way) to a job site...	Blanks	Oct 2013	#148
How old is your mom?	mzteris	Oct 2013	#11
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 was shocked when my boyfriend's brothers girlfriend	riverbendviewgal	Oct 2013	#28
I'm in NJ	Shankapotomus	Oct 2013	#116
the best reply	grasswire	Oct 2013	#12
Welcome to my world	Populist_Prole	Oct 2013	#17
I have lost 2 friends too & they would not stop mentioning RW talk points so I now avoid them	lunasun	Oct 2013	#45
I know what you mean	Populist_Prole	Oct 2013	#67
Right wing media doesn't really provide actual arguments, just "talking points" and buzzwords.	Mayberry Machiavelli	Oct 2013	#128
I feel your pain	treestar	Oct 2013	#18
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
My bro-in-law has become a gun nut since he hurt his back...	Tikki	Oct 2013	#20
I had a break in	riverbendviewgal	Oct 2013	#27
He lives in the King of Gated Communities…	Tikki	Oct 2013	#29
does sound like mental decline	riverbendviewgal	Oct 2013	#68
It does…he is such a great guy..	Tikki	Oct 2013	#71
What would happen if you just got him a dog? Get a puppy from the pound. It will start	Maraya1969	Oct 2013	#142
We kind of have that planned…We are getting a little dog soon and plan to..	Tikki	Oct 2013	#145
I am sorry but her life may be at risk	classykaren	Oct 2013	#111
We know..it is a deep concern.	Tikki	Oct 2013	#125
Dog is absolutely the way to go	Cosmocat	Oct 2013	#134
My father and one of my friends is EXACTLY the same way	Populist_Prole	Oct 2013	#30
People change.	Rain Mcloud	Oct 2013	#22
my mother would hang up on me when I said Obama	riverbendviewgal	Oct 2013	#23
I saw your post before but I missed the part about your mother. I am really	Maraya1969	Oct 2013	#146
My family has always been the voice of reason, guess I was lucky....	Thucydides	Oct 2013	#24
It's a dehumanizing campaign.	ffr	Oct 2013	#25
some of my in laws started attending a fundy church and immediately	gopiscrap	Oct 2013	#26
You are not alone...	mudstump	Oct 2013	#31
wow	Skittles	Oct 2013	#91
The American Far Right® has been actively cultivating cruelty and intolerance for years now.	Enthusiast	Oct 2013	#32
RW radio and Fox changed my mom on me too. I feel your pain. nt	TeamPooka	Oct 2013	#33
Mine, too!	narnian60	Oct 2013	#60
I am truly sorry this has happened to your family.	Jasana	Oct 2013	#34
2 liberal ( well they seemed it for years.. ) friends have gone total RW	lunasun	Oct 2013	#36
It really does change people-- and never for the better.	Marr	Oct 2013	#41
you should remind her that....	madrchsod	Oct 2013	#43
Do you think FAUX is transmitting subliminal hate messages?	Tigress DEM	Oct 2013	#44
I read years ago that in the 50's the CIA developed techniques to brainwash people subliminally	kimbutgar	Oct 2013	#61
+1000000	Chrom	Oct 2013	#152
The GOP can only thrive when there's division, bigotry, suspicion and hate of	Lex	Oct 2013	#62
Subliminal? It's their entire reason for being	Doctor_J	Oct 2013	#63
That's interesting. I wonder if they do send subliminal messages.	Maraya1969	Oct 2013	#72
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."	Iris	Oct 2013	#46
Can definitely relate.	silverweb	Oct 2013	#47
Personally I'm COMPLETELY SICK As I Continue To See	ChiciB1	Oct 2013	#49
I'm pretty lucky, I guess.	Blue_In_AK	Oct 2013	#50
I'm so sorry to hear this, Maraya.	stage left	Oct 2013	#53
"Heritage - not Hate"? There heritage is that they lost the war. There heritage is that they	Maraya1969	Oct 2013	#147
I'm sorry for you	Prophet 451	Oct 2013	#59
I think you are right.	narnian60	Oct 2013	#64
I guess I should be happy one of my parents is bucking that trend	dorkzilla	Oct 2013	#98
I hear you Maraya and I sympathize	Skittles	Oct 2013	#65
Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and the whole right-wing infotainment industrial complex who created a false	Douglas Carpenter	Oct 2013	#69
Have you pointed out to them how they've changed, or is that a bad idea?	polichick	Oct 2013	#70
Oh yes. And she tells me how she has always been a republican and I remind her	Maraya1969	Oct 2013	#73
I'm sorry - it must be pretty disturbing...	polichick	Oct 2013	#77
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
I lost my mother and my inheritance over this	Link Speed	Oct 2013	#82
Same with what's left of mine...	SayitAintSo	Oct 2013	#83
Life-long best friend now a narrow-minded Fox believer	missingfink	Oct 2013	#84
Americans have been subjected to hundreds-of-thousands of hours of "false advertising" by ...	JEFF9K	Oct 2013	#86
We've become a nation of selfish ass holes. nt	awoke_in_2003	Oct 2013	#88
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
I know exactly what you mean	Lilyeye	Oct 2013	#96
My Sister and Mother	WiffenPoof	Oct 2013	#100
I suppose that next	Turbineguy	Oct 2013	#101
family	frog64	Oct 2013	#102
No naturally	libdude	Oct 2013	#103
kindly	classykaren	Oct 2013	#104
Hate is for the mentally lazy n/t	the_sly_pig	Oct 2013	#105
This is a particularly disturbing thread. n/t	Laelth	Oct 2013	#107
SAD	Mr Dixon	Oct 2013	#108
re:I can't believe how much my family has changed after being brainwashed by the GOP.	allan01	Oct 2013	#110
My mother...	mgardener	Oct 2013	#112
I don't like to think about it too much	eilen	Oct 2013	#122
In response to your first line in OP	heaven05	Oct 2013	#113
It has happen to a lot of my friends	Pakid	Oct 2013	#114
Hate is a terrible drug that can take away our soul	rurallib	Oct 2013	#115
Same thing happened to my mom	abelenkpe	Oct 2013	#117
Not a big deal, imo.	Dash87	Oct 2013	#119
It happened in my family, too.	CrispyQ	Oct 2013	#124
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
Thanks!	snot	Oct 2013	#149
I haven't seen most of my family in 10 years ...	Myrina	Oct 2013	#130
Amazing, isn't it?	AndyA	Oct 2013	#132
Same here.	SpankMe	Oct 2013	#133
And I thought it was just me...	Chrom	Oct 2013	#135
I have grown old and haven't been brainwashed by rw shit. It is these people's f'g choice	DeschutesRiver	Oct 2013	#137
Isn't the path to citizenship the repubs are screaming	EC	Oct 2013	#138
I have completely blocked Fux Noise from all the TVs in my house.	Initech	Oct 2013	#139
Prolonged (and unrefuted) propaganda works	SoCalDem	Oct 2013	#144

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