The Brainwashing of My Dad

The Brainwashing of my Dad

Time to watch the 'brainwashing of my dad'

There's this goofy-titled documentary called "The Brainwashing of my Dad", which instantly puts anyone off from wanting to watch it, but it does an excellent job covering the emergence of talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, TV in the Reagan years and eventually the omnipresence of Fox News in America. It also explains why we're now fighting disinformation and exploitation at seemingly every step, and how casual TV consumers get fear-hooked into defending positions that diametrically oppose their health, safety, success and well-being.

I heard this movie helps with dealing with people like your dad. The film maker had the same experience you're describing and made a movie about how she dealt with it to get her Dad back. https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6 Good luck, there are way too many people in this situation.

See if they'll sit down and watch The Brainwashing of My Dad with you. Here is the description of the documentary.

"A filmmaker explores the radical change of her once Democratic father to an angry right-wing fanatic after his immersion in talk radio and Fox News. She discovers this to be a powerful phenomenon that has divided families across the nation."

https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6

I think your media has a lot to do with this.

u/UrNotMyRealMomTeresa posted the link below a few months ago (sorry, I don't know how to link properly and need to get off the loo)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01C6AFDM6

It's really worth a watch.

Removing them from Fox news and other craziness like that could really deradicalise a large swathe of Americans

>Yes definitely, he's very set in his ways.

Does he watch Fox News or listen to talk radio? There are apparently many cases across the nation where people become lost to their families. Check out The Brainwashing of My Dad on Prime. It can, apparently, be cured. Good luck!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01C6AFDM6/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

Check out the documentary https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01C6AFDM6/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

If you have Amazon Prime you can watch it for free. I've seen it, it's quite interesting. It illustrates how the media, especially right wing media, has become a propaganda machine.

It's Fox News, and it can be undone

I highly recommend watching "The Brainwashing of My Dad" if you have Amazon Prime

This doc does a really good job laying it all out cohesively. It goes a lot deeper than Roger Ailes and talks about the John Birch Society, the Powell memo, the dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine, the Telecommunications Act, Grover Norquist's Wednesday Morning meetings, etc. which all contributed to the current media landscape

"The Brainwashing of My Dad" (2016):

> IMDb: 6.7
> Runtime: 1h 29min
> Summary: A filmmaker explores the radical change of her once Democratic father to an angry right-wing fanatic after his immersion in talk radio and Fox News. She discovers this to be a powerful phenomenon that has divided families across the nation. > > Directors Jen Senko
Starring: Matthew Modine, Jen Senko, Frank Senko
Genres: Documentary
Subtitles: English [CC]
Audio languages: English
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This looks so interesting but I am not in the US nor on Amazon. However, thought to share if anyone wants to watch who wasn't aware of its existence.

I couldn’t comprehend it until I watched this document on Amazon recently called “the Brainwashing of my dad.” If really makes sense how these normal people in my life became full of hate the last decade.

https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6/ref=nodl_

You need to watch this: The Brainwashing of my Dad (2016)

By any chance do your parents watch Fox News and/or listen to AM talk radio? If so, you should watch the documentary "the brainwashing of my dad", it's free on Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6

It won't offer any solutions, but it has answers, at least.

this documentry will probably look a lot like your situation.

If you've not already done so, watch The Brainwashing of My Dad. It explains what you probably already know; but it explains it reasonably well:

https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6

Watch the documentary The Brainwashing of my Dad. There are certainly a lot of people out there who have always been racists in hiding or whatever, but if you entertain the propaganda long enough, it will make you believe shit you never would have otherwise.

documentary about a similar experience.

Weren't you just trying to dismiss my post about a woman getting shot by the police for talking about a 'race war' because it happened a month ago?

"Back in the late 80s and 90s" was - gasp! - decades ago. Trump wasn't a Fox News addict back then. He was famously a Democrat back then.

Fox News is a mind worm that eats boomer brains for breakfast. I recommend you watch The Brainwashing of my Dad if you want to understand what happens to a boomer brain when they watch Fox News unsupervised.

You should watch this movie with him : The Brainwashing of my Dad

You may want to watch “The Brainwashing of My Dad”

Gee golly Mr. you are so smart I never thought of such things. I only grew up in an organization most people called a brainwashing cult. (And the members loved right wingers, what a surprise)

Go listen to Rush Limbaugh a week and think about your "both sides" viewpoint.

Or just watch this: https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6

Here's what happened to them.

It can be undone.

Might not be exactly what you're looking for but the documentary The Brainwashing Of My Dad hits hard.

It's available for free on Amazon with ads or ad free with Prime

https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6/ref=nodl_

It kind of worries me when we attribute this to mental health/depression, my mom and I suffer from the same genetic mental health issues (bp) and we're on polar ends of the spectrum and I've been on-off depressed my entire life, same as her. I have a lot of liberal friends going through some of the worst bouts of depression they've ever had right now and they aren't becoming trumpers.

I live in the middle of downtown and help the unhoused at food kitchens on the weekend and she spends her time ranting and raving about hlilarys emails and other "lib" stuff on Linkedin (which I'm so close to deleting finally) to all her conservative boomer colleagues from her beachhouse in rural florida.

I think it's something much more related to being susceptible to indoctrination or believing conspiracies, some character, thinking or personality flaw leading to straight black and white, non-nuanced thought, refusing to do your own research or question that of others, and completely refusing to be empathetic toward someone outside of your own upbringing.

I just have a hard time believing that a psychiatrist or "curing" depression is going to have any effect on something like this, is that ever even their MO? To rid someone of indoctrinated beliefs? I go in and tell them why I hate myself and they ask me why I feel that way.

Unfortunately I know a lot of rich conservatives that love Trump and I wouldn't consider any of them depressed, hell their lack of empathy makes navigating this 2020 hellscape way easier than it is for me, it's like a cognitive dissonance barrier.

edit: Have you read that book on Fox News indoctrination? I haven't but I hear its good. I guess theres a video now I'm going to watch now ; https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6

> I'm not remotely qualified, but surely that much of a 180 suggests some kind of serious mental breakdown/trauma?

Watch The Brainwashin of my Dad to understand how it happens.

You should really watch The Brainwashing of My Dad before you automatically blame the Democratic party. The right-wing propaganda machine was started decades ago. They have intentionally steered the narrative. They exhaust their opponents by throwing out so much BS, that you can't possibly debunk it all. The only way out of the quagmire isn't more messaging, it's tearing down the fake news/propaganda apparatus.

It's available on Amazon.

Additionally, I've basically lost who I thought my family was over this. It's admittedly on my "I need to watch this" list, but there's a great documentary that I plan to watch called The Brainwashing of my Dad (https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls)

I truly have lost my father to radicalism in the last 8 years. I had to explain I still fought for women's reproductive rights despite a medically necessary hysterectomy even though I shouldn't care anymore since (and here I'm unclear) I (a) wasn't enough of a woman anymore to care or (b) couldn't have kids so I didn't have a dog in the race (so to speak). It's all horrible.

https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6

Researches have found that watching Fox actually makes you less informed than if you just completely ignored the news.

> The motivation you see among Trump supporters has been an ongoing project for nearly half a century, going back to the 1970s

Hypernormalisation

The Brainwashing of My Dad

https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6

I was born in 1976. Growing up in the 80s I remember my parents throwing the word "liberal" around like it was an insult. There was no expansion on what they meant, no engagement with what specifically they disagreed with. Literally just: "Well, that's liberal". It was an axiom. Liberal = bad. There was nothing else.

Being a child at the time, I didn't fully grasp the significance of what I was hearing. My parents weren't the only people I saw do this. Relatives and extended family would say some of the same things. I was too young to know better so I didn't really question it. I didn't know any better, I was just taught that liberalism is bad, and therefore anything labeled as such should be dismissed out of hand.

This all started to change when I was a teenager. In 1992 I was 16 and got a job bagging groceries. Being around the working poor for the first time in my life and without my parents around to interpret what I was seeing in front of my own eyes. And it was amidst that working environment where I slowly started to realize I'd been lied to all those years. Once I saw how the working poor lived their lives, who they were, why they might not like the system that I'd been raised to believe was good and just. My parents taught me that food stamps were for freeloaders. The customers and some of the people working there that had them were decent people that didn't have the luxuries I'd had growing up in an upper-middle class family. There was nothing wrong with these people. I just grew up in a family of means and they didn't.

Now extrapolate the experience I have over millions of people that were raised in similar circumstances. Liberalism has been demonized for literally decades to the point where even self-professed liberals internalize a lot of that without even realizing it. Myself included. I'm so used to fighting on "their" (conservative) turf due to how long this propaganda has been going on.

TL;DR - Blame Roger Ailes. See also: The Brainwashing of My Dad.

NAD. But this seems to be a common problem. Have you seen this documentary? I think it’s free on Prime. Sounds exactly like your situation. https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6/ref=nodl_

Found it: https://www.amazon.com/Brainwashing-My-Dad-Matthew-Modine/dp/B01C6AFDM6

Of course, everyone was once a child. I was listening to an episode of Pantsuit Politics (I actually think you would like it as well as this documentary), and they were talking about, after reading the Mary Trump book, having grace for understanding the horrific family & circumstances that Donald Q Trump grew up in and the pain that must have caused him while at the same time understanding that it doesn't excuse or condone his actions.

The best that can come from these situations is to look at them with eyes wide open, try to understand what's truly going on and, when possible, learn. That's what I meant by it being dangerous to assume they don't know better because that prevents us from learning.

I have the same outlook as you but when I see intentional selfishness, cruelty, hypocritical talking points or behavior, I have no empathy for that self indulgent b.s.

Anyway, I do think your sentiment is lovely and a timely reminder, and we can also be aware of purposeful obtuseness.

That's happened to many dfferent people and families. So many that someone made adocumentary about it. Tracking it back further into previous times as well.

• Amazon - Free with Prime

• Youtube - $$$

• iTunes

Ya pues, siga viendo facebook, 8chan, canales rancios de YT y fox news de ñapita.

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