I have 2 GOP parents, one that voted Trump originally and one that did not. Over the last 9 years, I have watched them both travel down the MAGA pipeline to become visibly fascist. The parents who taught me racism was wrong and to have empathy for others, have become openly hostile about immigrants, Muslims, and even parrot the Nazi “great replacement” theory.
Part and parcel with this, they refuse to have any discussions about the facts – like immigrants not stealing and eating people’s pets. They won’t hear it, they won’t even engage in the conversation…they just get angry and loud the second they hear anything that doesn’t fit into the Fox News narrative. Can you relate? How are you dealing with it in your relationships with your parents?
Bingo, fascism is a very easy comfortable place for their old brains to rest. It takes zero thought or effort, just do what you are told and regurgitate a few simple catch phrases.
Right, until suddenly their Medicare is gone.
I mean… neurodegenerative diseases suck. To be fair 60ish percent of them were always going to end up yelling at children to get off their lawns.