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#ive heard him say he was socially center-left leaning and economically center-right leaning
srvphm · 2 years
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I’m kind of worried about how my father is turning increasingly right wing and conservative
#ive heard him say he was socially center-left leaning and economically center-right leaning#and im pretty sure he used to consider himself a liberal#but he’s been growing increasingly critical of liberalism and not in a good way#he thinks cishet white men can’t say anything anymore and its all bc woke libs are silencing everyone#refuses to give any concrete example lmao he just thinks it’s an issue in general everywhere right now#thinks that we should always assume everyone has good intentions & that good intentions can do no wrong#funny how he started to shift when he started to listen to fox news#‘its to know what my opponents think’ he said ‘I need to know their full opinion to really argue agaisnt it’#quickly became ‘well during the day fox news is as neutral as any other news outlet and I like to get varied sources’#quickly became him now mainly listening to fox news#he’s far from stupid. he has a law degree from an ivy league university. he has a respectable white collar job.#he also studied in political science and co-wrote a book with an ex-prime minister#he knows he’s not dumb or uneducated and it makes him believe he’s immune to propaganda#like sorry sir but fox news is not ‘just another news channel’ its a far-right propaganda machine designed to radicalize you#and twitter is NOT a good place to get a real understanding of who’s telling who to shut up#sure conservatives get ratio’d on there but they’re still the ones passing the laws by good bitch#tweets about how cishet white men should shut up and listen don’t cancel the fact that no one is actually forcing them to do so irl
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