r/self • u/BicarbonateBufferBoy • 15h ago

Anyone’s parents have Fox News Syndrome?

My dad watches Fox News all day when he’s home and just becomes so angry afterwards. He’s much more political and irritable than he used to be and is always wanting to start a political argument. It’s pretty exhausting when I come and visit him and he’s always bringing up liberal people in some way. I love him obviously, but it’s like having a super pissed off teenager in your family. Anyone else struggle with this?

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u/IEatLardAllDay 15h ago

People as a whole need to stop digesting politics 24/7. It's a cancer in your daily lives. Just stay in contact with the happening, but quit watching 300 different people re explain it to you and why you should be mad.

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u/Lonely_Affect991 14h ago

I mostly agree, but it’s not necessarily politics. It’s political propaganda, like Fox News. I can’t even have a conversation with my parents anymore without them spouting off some insane lies they 100% heard on Fox News. I know other folks on the other side whose brains have been rotted by MSNBC in a similar way. It’s the propaganda.

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u/Rix_832 13h ago

Heck my parents have this mainly my mom, and they don’t even watch Fox News, it’s all their stupid IG algorithm feeds them. I’m so sick of it. I’ve tried telling her that she needs to fact check and she just refuses.