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It happened to me as well Mr. Wheaton. My Dad was a liberal Democrat who voted for Kennedy, collage educated, that gradually mutated into a conservaclone after he went bankrupt at 62.
We live in seperate states and keep in touch by phone. I tried to be civilized even though I knew he was madder then a March Hare, tip toeing around subjects that we did not agree on, but no go. It was like he was determined to start a fight. One day he accused me of insulting his god when I told my younger brother exactly what I thought of the "Promise Keepers". My old man also tried to treat me like a child, and I had it, then and there. I told him in no uncertain terms what he could do with his conservative, homophobic, paranoid BS. It was a non stop shouting match for a half hour that accomplished nothing.
We still talk, but not much beyond hello and how are you. My dad does not have cable, so his only TV is over the spectrum, usually of the religious variety. When he gets a chance to look at cable at my sister’s house, it is all Fox News all the time. I normally am not a vengeful person, but if somebody wanted to give me a nice Hanukkah present, they would flush O'Reilly and other right-wingers done the nearest sewer treatment plant.
