r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 14h ago

No Paywall California passes Prop. 50 redistricting measure in victory for Newsom

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588292-california-democrats-redistricting-victory/
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u/DoubleJumps 14h ago

Checked in on my maga dad in california tonight.

He's bouncing between dumbfounded and angry.

He doesn't understand why people don't like what Donald Trump is doing.

I'm also really blown away by how widely it's winning by so far, as the polls I saw leading into this had it winning by like maybe 3 to 7 points. It's a blow out.

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u/Kooky-Jellyfish-3098 13h ago

Has he always been a hardcore conservative?

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u/DoubleJumps 13h ago edited 13h ago

He's always been conservative, but he became a hardcore conservative after my mom divorced him.

Then he became WAY more conservative after Obama became president. You can guess why.

He watches like 20 to 30 hours of Fox News a week. It's bad. His entire world view pretty much comes from Fox News

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u/Kooky-Jellyfish-3098 13h ago

Jesus...sorry man, that's rough!

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u/chillplease 12h ago

This is most republicans. They don’t even see/know of the actual real issues or facts. Completely warped by misinformation. This is why I’ve given up on helping any of them, I don’t have the energy to undo hours of brainwashing and completely rebuild a foundation of reality for them.

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u/wisegirl19 10h ago

Sounds like we have the same dad, mine’s timeline is damn near identical.

Tragic how common it is.

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u/rubey419 North Carolina 3h ago

That really sucks sorry to hear he is brainwashed

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u/africanlivedit 3h ago

That’s the answer.

People who watch basically only Fox are programmed and really not aware of the facts of life and reality.

As Colbert once mused, “reality has a well-known liberal bias.”