My dad is increasingly hateful and apathetic, I don’t know what to do.
To preface, this is just copied from a post i made on r/canadaleft, with some recent additions and edits.
I’m f14 and we live in southern Ontario. My dad has always been conservative, and we aren’t at all religious. My mom is “apolitical”, and tells me she avoids the news because she either “doesn’t know” or it’s too much to keep up with. Over the past two years, especially post covid, I’ve noticed my dad become a lot more reactionary and a lot less open to opposing views.
Obviously, as a 14 year old I know I’m not the most educated person in the world on every topic but I have personal morals and values. My dad is 47(?), has his own small business for landscaping/irrigation with no other employees, and my mom is a wedding planner. He’s been really struggling to make money. He tells me he’s jealous of other people’s wealth. He told me yesterday that he used to see his outdoor physical labor as an escape and he feels useless when he’s not working.
He’s so incredibly racist, he constantly does minstrel like impressions, thinks trans people are pedophiles, islamophobic, anticommunist, watches asmongold clips, gets his news solely from twitter, he’s a great replacement believer, HUGE anti vaxxer, hates the homeless, autism is fake and caused by vaccines, elon musk is just autistic and thats why hes a nazi, still on about the trucker convoy, wants to own a gun, rfk jr lover, trump dick rider, poilievre supporter, anti immigration, thinks climate change is fake (the glaciers melting is the earth cooling itself obviously, and if it notices its a little warm, it just tilts five degrees!) and i just don’t even know what to do anymore. It bleeds into everything. He was yammering about islamic pedophiles and i brought up the catholic church and allegations (not the best tactic i know) and he justified it saying they were probably pent up from abstinence!! its so scary to hear that. hes also constantly bringing up clinton and carney to deflect from trump and epstein. As if they’re the ‘left’!! He also says he needs to build a lightweight aircraft in case iran bombs canada because “there’s a lot of terrorists in canada”. He also thinks the irgc is like hamas, thinks israel is good but also occasionally complains about big jewish donors.
He’s like an ameriboo. He’s alone 24/7, no friends, just watching fox and his YouTube shorts. It’s unbearable. He LOVES trump!! He thinks he’s really smart and innocent and was actually saving children from epstein!! It’s so sad to watch this happen but he’s become so hateful. Yesterday he told me that the first non white person he met was when he was 22 in 2000, a turkish man with a tiny quran!! And the craziest part, he thinks he’s a CENTRIST but “fiscally conservative”.
I’m not sure if this is fully fox brain, but I know he does watch a lot of fox and a lotttt of american right wing media. I just want to vent a bit because it’s getting increasingly harder to enjoy time with him when all he wants to do is talk about trump and muslims. I just wish he had friends.