What I've Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News

[ginnyinWI]

5. My dad, too.

A conservative but not very political, he started watching FOX and listening to conservative talk radio after retirement when he got into his 70s. I always wonder if he was only looking for an outlet for his frustration about getting older, or if those outlets caused his negative outlook and anger.

I won't ever know which caused what, but he would get on email and write angry screeds at me and the world. I'm the only one in the family who had switched and started voting Dem. It caused at least one big blowup during the Kerry campaign, and after that things were never the same.

He even went as far as to say he was glad that he was going to die soon when he got into his 80s. Imagine that--being glad you are going to die, because you are convinced that Obama was going to ruin America within 8 months of taking office!

I feel sad that he was victimized in this way, sucked in by people telling him what he wanted to hear. He didn't live until the age of Trump. I wonder if he would have been a MAGA hat wearer and if he would have ever realized his mistake.