Don't get me wrong, my dad has the most amazingly shitty politics, but he knows a lot and has introduced me to a logical way of thinking that I'm really grateful for.

My dad is a great example of how intelligent people can arrive at batshit crazy beliefs. He is reading Marx and despises rich people and neoliberalism but he also believes in cold-war anti-communist propaganda, right-wing culture war bullshit including Islamophobic "great replacement" conspiracies. He hates modern succdems for their obvious betrayals but thinks that they are different from the "real" succdems who created the welfare state. Ideally he would like to live in a 1950's succdem welfare state without any post-1970 technology, LGBT or brown people.