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I think that a steady diet of right wing talk radio has rotted my own father's mind, turning him into a 'dittohead' and a very angry hardnosed Republican. He could not hear anything about Bill Clinton without spewing a stream of invective that turned the air blue. I was afraid to tell him that I was selected as a founding volunteer at his Presidential Library because I figured he'd disown me.
Happily, he didn't, but I am not looking forward to Christmas dinner, because he'll find some reason to berate me for my own moderate-to-progressive beliefs, my non-Christian faith, and my nonconforming ways.
If I could find some way to selectively jam the talk radio and Fox TV that he listens to and watches, and that he parrots like the Republican Borg Collective, I would. I blame them, as you do, for the collective poisoning of our American community. I can only wish that the propogators of all the hate, anger, and misery will get their fair and balanced (heh) karmic return- and in public, where we can watch them spin in the wind.
