Dear Abbey: Help! My father is a Republican
THU JUN 07, 2012 AT 12:08 AM PDT
Dear Abbey: Help! My father is a Republican
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Dear Abbey,
I don’t know what to do. I love my father very much, but he’s been watching Fox News for several years now, and he’s been brain washed by its propaganda. And even though you and I know that recent studies have proven that people who get all their news from Fox News are the most misinformed people in the country, there is no convincing my father that they are telling him anything but the absolute truth. He’s become their pawn and I fear that my father’s Republican Overlords are more important to him than me.
If my father took the time to learn my opinion, he’d know that I think that the majority of the leaders of today’s Republican Party promote the vilest, most racist ideas to instill hate and fear in the citizens of this country. I have watched them obstruct progress for the last three years and do every thing possible to destroy the economy of our country in order to keep one man from keeping his job for another four years. Last week after the Job Numbers came out, they got in front of the cameras and demonized President Obama for the dismal numbers. And then what did they do? Did they go back to Congress and get to work on legislation to help solve the problems? No, they went right to work on another piece of abortion legislation. Where are their priorities? The Party that claims to be about small government does nothing but try to pass draconian laws that invade the privacy of the citizens of this country. Yesterday they voted against an equal pay law. Now, it doesn’t make much difference to me because I no longer work for a paycheck, but one day it’s going to make a difference to his granddaughters when they are paid less for doing the same job as a man. It saddens me to think that one day those beautiful, intelligent young ladies will be paid less than a man (that they are probably smarter than) because the Republicans denied them the tools to make sure that employers treat their abilities for doing the same job equally.
I don’t trust the Republicans. Look what they’ve done to my father. They turned him into somebody so filled with hate; I can’t even have a civilized conversation with him about anything going on in the world. Nobody can. If somebody doesn’t agree with all the twisted lies he’s learned on Fox News, then he resorts to yelling, temper tantrums, and even worse, character assassination. This is not my father. What did they do with my father? I’m beginning to think that it is possible that those diabolical Republicans swapped my father for this hateful man. The man I’ve been talking to is an imposter. My real father is living a great life in Paris, where he has intelligent conversations and spirited debates about a multitude of topics and he never assassinates the character of the person he is debating. He listens, and reasons, and uses logic to counter opinions he does not agree with. He is nothing like this man who sends me disgusting emails full of hateful speech. My father would not do that. My father knows that kind of language is just a strong expression of a weak mind and that a reasonable tone and fact-based arguments are the only way to change another person’s mind.
It’s really so sad that in the sunset of his life, my father prefers to spend his time consumed with hate and anger, instead of talking honestly with his daughter or even caring who she really is or what she really thinks. He was a good, supportive father when I was growing up, and must have done something right. My sister and I grew up to be honest, loving human beings. However, my father has failed miserably at being my equal as a human being. My thoughts and opinions don’t matter to him. Why did he raise me to be an independent thinker if he didn’t want me to think for myself? Does he really want me to be an empty-headed zombie who cowers in fear?
I do have one fear. I am afraid for my father, Abbey. What can I do to get through to him? How can I make him see that all this hate and anger is destroying our relationship to the point that I don’t have anything left to talk to him about except perhaps the weather?
Sincerely,
Lost Daughter
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/07/1098126/-Dear-Abbey-Help-My-father-is-a-Republican
