re: #55 Khal Wimpo

Friend of mine fights every day to get his poor old dad off the sofa, away from the Fox News at Level 11 Volume, and out for a pleasant walk in a sunny, safe neighborhood. This country has a massive mental-health problem; millions of seniors, apparently suffering from early-to-mid spectrum dementia, unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy any more.

All sending their gummint checks to Pat, the Tea Party, and anything that hits the themes of flag, Christian god, fear & hatred of funny-looking foreign people. Competency hearings, people.

If we loosened the standards on competency hearings, the funding for much of the RWNJs would dry up tomorrow.

This is, to me, perhaps the saddest consequence of the 24/7 Fox news hysterical hate content. I couldn’t begin to count the number of stories I’ve heard of families literally being ripped apart by it with people becoming estranged from elderly parents and other family members who have so swallowed the hatefulness they simply can’t function sanely any longer. I ran into one such guy not long ago in the park laundry room who went freaking berserk after I told him I thought the Keystone pipeline wasn’t a good idea and why. (He’d asked my opinion - I didn’t bring it up.) He actually followed me out screaming expletives at me loud enough to draw the park manager out of his office next door. This is not sane behavior. And yes, he spends his waking hours in front of his teevee set to Fox as I heard from one of his concerned neighbors who can’t even talk to the guy any longer.

This is heartbreaking and flat-out evil.