re: #213 Dr. Matt

Today he tries too hard to be a centrist nice guy, who sees all sides of an issue.

I’m trying not to constantly beat this into the ground (probably too late). but that’s why my friend loves him. This guy was a party animal in his late teens who latched on to Limbaugh (first for the insults, then for the actual content) and then promptly listened to him for the next 30 years.

I think he got an inkling of how fucked up the GOP was becoming in 2008 through Smerconish and then went on to embrace that odious “All politicians are equally bad” bullshit.

All the while, though, he would lose his shit anytime I criticized the GOP. That’s where my reflexive disgust towards people who claim they’re “independent” comes from: sample size of one, but everyone I encounter has been or still is GOP. The Bernie Bros have definitely made rethink that stance, though.

Regarding my buddy, though, one thing struck me last year: he now has kids that are in their late teens/early twenties, which is when he started listening to Limbaugh. I just cannot even wrap my head around about being that young and listening to that garbage. I think his middle daughter is starting to lean that way as well; she criticized her older sister for writing a blog that contained “femi-Nazi” junk.

God, to be that young and a woman and talking like a vicious sixty-plus year old male conservative radio jock? Everyone’s allowed to find their own voice, I guess, but damn.