I love my dad. He's not an unintelligent guy. But he and my mother consistently watch MSNBC. Trying to talk politics with him is impossible. It's like he lives in an entirely different world, where: - Ukraine has taken back most of the land annexed by Russia; - We had to stop Putin in Ukraine, or Poland would be next, and the world would be taken over by "Communists" from Russia and China. - We have to back Israel, or a similar fate will befall the planet. All the while, he couldn't stop talking about abortion somehow. In a country and world, which is at the precipice of existential disaster on numerous fronts, somehow my almost 80-year-old father is made to care about abortion seemingly as much or more than any other singular issue of our time. Thank God cable news is going the way of the dinosaur. P.S. When I talk to old people who watch FOX, it's not much better, if at all.
@FLOMBARDIMUSIC So frustrating. Cable news is designed to be addictive, but if you could get him to go off of it for 6 months, he'd likely be disgusted when he goes back. Even if he still agrees with them, he'd notice how opportunistic & fake they are. Hard to stomach when you're not used to it.
@laughingcat2016 I know this is a fact, because at some point in my life, I turned it off too. And when you went back, you couldn't unsee how full of shit they were.