Leftist anon thinks the right controls america
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My father, for example. He still gets all of his news from mainstream sources, with their obvious spins and propaganda. Believes that it's objective journalism. And every time I contradict something, try to explain to him situations neutrally and objectively, he claims that I'm a conspiracy theorist, because it's not what he heard on the news. Tells me that I'm reading and listening to propaganda, because I take time to research my opinions myself instead of just believing the talking heads on tv.
I have not the slightest clue about how to deprogram him and to get him to make at least a slight effort doing research. I even often researched information right in front of him and showed him my evidence when he claimed that one of my statements was false, but he then just forgets the discussions and goes right back to his previous position. Even asking him about which organizations he considered credible in order to use their own data to support my points didn't work, because he refused to name a single organization.
I feel like I'm surrounded by NPCs most of the time.
The horror of recognizing that your own family, the very people that you should be closest to in the world, are unthinking automatons is a uniquely agonizing experience. My mom and sister are unrepentant in their Leftism, and I would have more success training caterpillars than reasoning my way through a subject they've already had their minds made up for them by the TV/radio.
I don't know what else to do except abandon them entirely and set out for people who I can talk to, strangers or not. I feel like they're entirely lost.
Make fun of them whenever you can. I suppose that ends up the same as abandoning them, but at least they will be clear on the reason and your politics. They may even reflect a little. (you would know better than me)
Same boat. I always send them the primary source when I can. I send them the peer-reviewed science paper not even the science-news summary of it so at least in their mind they have to think "oh he means well he's just reading the wrong study, the science is conflicted". They're smart enough to read the abstract and understand what the paper's main findings are.
I think the only prayer is for them to realize that all their sources are the same source.
Do you have a conservative source for that? Does your source have even a single conservative reporter/journalist working there that you can name? Then reject that source because you need to get the full picture or you only listen to balanced news.
It's not that they're dumb, they just can't conceive of a 150 million person echo chamber or that they're in it - that's a conspiracy theory, an impossibility.