I have been wondering about something the past couple of days.

[procon]

4. I can see the impact Fox news has had on members of my own family.

They've changed. They have become paranoid and suspicious. They hate -- yes, truly hate! -- everyone who thinks or looks different, and it's getting so hard to have any sort of normal conversation with them. They've acquired guns, lots of guns. They talk about god, but it's a god with a machine gun. They believe every conspiracy theory without question. Facts are dismissed as leftist lies, I don't even mention evolution, or global warming. They think the federal government is unnecessary, they want local rule, describing something like the city-states of ancient Greece. The only thing they want to pay for is the military.

They weren't always like this, but the one common denominator they all share is their obsession with Fox news. They've all been brainwashed and there's nothing I can do about it, but it's a tragedy and it just makes me weep.