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In reply to the discussion: I can't believe how much my family has changed after being brainwashed by the GOP. [View all]lunasun
(21,646 posts)39. Exactly - they are forming the Radical White as a voting base who will make sure only insecure white
people are in charge
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I can't believe how much my family has changed after being brainwashed by the GOP. [View all]
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
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And they have lost the ability to look at themselves. It is like how Hitler got all those
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#4
You may enjoy Wrapped in The Flag author C Conner She came from a RW family and has a lot
lunasun
Oct 2013
#75
I did write that back to her. And she just called and tried to defend herself and said that those
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#6
Bullies frequently say their victims 'can't take a joke.' It's how they justify their behavior.
Shrike47
Oct 2013
#14
On the bright side, she did a good job raising you. Keep at her. There's a decent person under the
Squinch
Oct 2013
#15
I blame television for a lot of this, too. It's all cruelty and humiliation now.
arcane1
Oct 2013
#7
Can he drink a glass of red wine a night? I've been reading that besides all its other benefits
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#143
I have noticed this phenoma also the longer the commute the more right wing they are
kimbutgar
Oct 2013
#57
I know I like to listen to talk radio because it feels like someone is with me.
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#141
She is 82 and very active, has friends and lives with her boyfriend. I can trace this all to the
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#16
I have lost 2 friends too & they would not stop mentioning RW talk points so I now avoid them
lunasun
Oct 2013
#45
Right wing media doesn't really provide actual arguments, just "talking points" and buzzwords.
Mayberry Machiavelli
Oct 2013
#128
The latest from the GOP is they are the heroes of white people being in charge.
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2013
#19
Exactly - they are forming the Radical White as a voting base who will make sure only insecure white
lunasun
Oct 2013
#39
What's most disgusting about all of this is seeing Democrats trying to save them.
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2013
#52
What would happen if you just got him a dog? Get a puppy from the pound. It will start
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#142
I saw your post before but I missed the part about your mother. I am really
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#146
The American Far Right® has been actively cultivating cruelty and intolerance for years now.
Enthusiast
Oct 2013
#32
I read years ago that in the 50's the CIA developed techniques to brainwash people subliminally
kimbutgar
Oct 2013
#61
"Heritage - not Hate"? There heritage is that they lost the war. There heritage is that they
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#147
Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and the whole right-wing infotainment industrial complex who created a false
Douglas Carpenter
Oct 2013
#69
Oh yes. And she tells me how she has always been a republican and I remind her
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#73
I feel your pain, I am probably the only one in my family who is still Democrat or at least I am the
Thinkingabout
Oct 2013
#78
I've seen a mean, racist streak surface in older white people I've known for years.
Arugula Latte
Oct 2013
#81
Americans have been subjected to hundreds-of-thousands of hours of "false advertising" by ...
JEFF9K
Oct 2013
#86
until the americans stop giving 1200 coordinated corporate kkk radio stations a free speech
certainot
Oct 2013
#89
my one brother ... what it had done to him ... and his wife or vice versa. sad.
Tuesday Afternoon
Oct 2013
#92
re:I can't believe how much my family has changed after being brainwashed by the GOP.
allan01
Oct 2013
#110
This is why who owns the media MATTERS. DU'er's should be fighting tooth and nail to
snot
Oct 2013
#126
I kicked and Recommended you DU post and I am saving the information you just gave
Maraya1969
Oct 2013
#140
I have grown old and haven't been brainwashed by rw shit. It is these people's f'g choice
DeschutesRiver
Oct 2013
#137