My brother's really conservative

[freshwest]

14. 'Media distracts us with petty divisions meanwhile military contractors and bankers loot the nation'

That needs to repeated until it gets through their brainwashed skulls. It is the sacred private sector doing the theft and democratic governance with regulation standing between them and the robber barons. And that a government strong enough to protect the common man from them doesn't run on fairy dust, it needs tax revenue, of which he'd pay little or none under the Democratic Party platform.