Same, my parents were libertarian mind-set. Fuck your laws. I do what I want. And now both of them are vaxxed, think the government is here to help, Fauci is a respectable Dr, and Orange Man Bad. MSM is 100% to blame.
I was not raised with religion (didn't find that until my 20s). But my father was largely responsible for my development as a human who does not blindly trust any authority and who learned to think critically early on. On a family trip to Washington D.C. in the 80s, the one souveneir he bought was a little plaque that read "Thank goodness we're not getting all the government we're paying for." I was in 8th grade at the time and couldn't understand why he got such a kick out of it.
One of the hardest things to experience during this entire plandemic is his falling hook, line, and sinker for the MSM narrative and the brainwashing. It might have been understandable at first since he's in his mid-eighties now, but when he expressed frank disgust at my questioning of the vaccines, I really struggled to reconcile the independently-minded father I've always known with this new version of him. Even the VAERS data I sent was of no interest to him. It doesn't help that his younger wife has fully embraced the fear as well.
It's rough.
I don't think it's as much the msm as it would be the long bitter decades of watching "we'll fight for you!" after "we'll fight for you!" after "we'll fight for you!" candidate and politician trun out to be a knee crawling commie cocksucker, every damn time, that finally broke them years ago.
By the time Trump came into play, it was too late for a lot of the older folks. Their souls were beaten down so hard they just don't have it in them to do other than keep their heads down and try not to draw attention to themselves.
Same, my parents were libertarian mind-set. Fuck your laws. I do what I want. And now both of them are vaxxed, think the government is here to help, Fauci is a respectable Dr, and Orange Man Bad. MSM is 100% to blame.
I was not raised with religion (didn't find that until my 20s). But my father was largely responsible for my development as a human who does not blindly trust any authority and who learned to think critically early on. On a family trip to Washington D.C. in the 80s, the one souveneir he bought was a little plaque that read "Thank goodness we're not getting all the government we're paying for." I was in 8th grade at the time and couldn't understand why he got such a kick out of it. One of the hardest things to experience during this entire plandemic is his falling hook, line, and sinker for the MSM narrative and the brainwashing. It might have been understandable at first since he's in his mid-eighties now, but when he expressed frank disgust at my questioning of the vaccines, I really struggled to reconcile the independently-minded father I've always known with this new version of him. Even the VAERS data I sent was of no interest to him. It doesn't help that his younger wife has fully embraced the fear as well. It's rough.
I don't think it's as much the msm as it would be the long bitter decades of watching "we'll fight for you!" after "we'll fight for you!" after "we'll fight for you!" candidate and politician trun out to be a knee crawling commie cocksucker, every damn time, that finally broke them years ago.
By the time Trump came into play, it was too late for a lot of the older folks. Their souls were beaten down so hard they just don't have it in them to do other than keep their heads down and try not to draw attention to themselves.