I Lost My Dad to Fox News

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24. To all too large a degree, I have too

While he was always preachy, always has to be right etc by nature, and right of center ( as was myself 12-15 years ago ) he wasn't political and we got along really good. Since fox news and RW talk radio he has become very political. He started politicizing everything to the point it took a great amount of skill conversing with him to word the conversation just so he couldn't politicize it. His preachy nature on top of that made, for a while, being with him absolutely insufferable. He also hung with a small crowd ( as he does now ) that caters to him, thus emboldening him and making him believe the bubble is a microcosm of the USA.

But the thing that I really noticed, as others have up-thread have noted with their own, was how constantly ANGRY he was all the damned time, and how he seemingly hated every thing and everybody except outside his bubble. I too thought of how sad it was/is: He's retired, reasonably healthy, fit for money just fine; should be adopting a live and let live bliss retirement and enjoying what's left of life. Now he keeps guns all over the house, so paranoid is he....and this in an affluent area so sterile, it may as well be a gated county.

At least lately he's toning it down somewhat. He's begun to realize that it's poisoning relations with family, and more importantly, that it's making him all fired up when he should be in better spirits. He's said so. I think he is still very right-wing, but that he's mellowing out more to resignation than a change in ideology.