My mom died a few years ago and I stopped talking to my dad over his Fox News brainworms.
I feel like an orphan now. I have a couple siblings but we're distant.
I feel like an orphan now. I have a couple siblings but we're distant.
If your dad can’t agree to be apolitical when you spend time together then it’s his choice to be estranged from you. But maybe he can, and maybe you guys can find a connection again.
I speak from personal experience here. I hope you’re able to find some reconciliation.
Some, but not all, people sucked into the Fox News vortex literally have nothing else to talk about. Their entire life is Fox News, they will only talk about the topic du jour they saw on the screen that day. It becomes tiring to try to connect with someone who only wants to connect with you about hating the imagined scapegoat of the day.
It’s definitely not solely a Fox News thing, I’ve experienced people who will only think about the daily discourse on Twitter or are only interested in whatever twitch streamer got “owned” by whichever other streamer. It is draining dealing with people like this, especially when their entire world view is fed by misinformation.
Projecting emotions onto others' family members is presumptuous and unhelpful.
> I speak from personal experience here.
As an implicit baseline, this does nothing to strengthen your position. Highlighting personal experience only underscores how subjective and situation-dependent this advice is.
This statement has the same tone when you replace "politics" with adultery or racism.
Political beliefs represent the person and what they value. Some beliefs can't be overlooked and are not compatible with the relationship.
If we distanced ourselves from everyone who made a mistake or who believed something different than we believe, we would have no relationships at all.