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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]CrispyQ
(36,460 posts)My mother went from a kind, generous person to a mean-spirited hateful being I hardly recognized. It started when she got a job where she could listen to radio & she started listening to Rush Limbaugh, every day, five days a week. This was back in the early 90s. We were not close, so I didn't see her often. All I know is one Christmas she seemed fine, the next she seemed a little out there & the following Christmas I wondered who had taken over my mother. She passed in '07. I miss her sometimes, but I wonder if our fragile relationship would have withstood the freak show that was the 2008 republican campaign.
Now I'm going to go back & read the rest of the responses & discover what I always do on these types of threads, and that is that this has happened to too many families! The day Limbaugh dies, the world will smell a little better, the sun will shine a little brighter, & I will buy a bottle of champagne & dance & party all night long.
I am sorry for you loss, cuz that's exactly how it feels.