I grew up in a household where my father since his college days was pretty much influenced by communism , due to which the time I was growing up , I had a lot of marxist , leninist literature at home , and there were few ussr imported books about communist ideologies ! Few other of my family members are quite communist as well ! So anyone else has similar background ?
Dad was some kind of fellow traveler in his youth, but I think forgot some important lessons about critical media consumption as he got older. Went from reading black panther lit and the monthly review to pretty uncritically watching shit like msnbc, etc.
I think he sort of just thinks the dems really do mean well and are doing the best they can now. Just a casualty of the end of history maybe. It’s weird though because he will occasionally concede that I’m right on certain fundamental things when we inevitably argue about politics. He’s maybe just really lowered his expectations over the years.