They were pretty apolitical till coronavirus hit. Now my dad thinks it’s way overblown and they’ve bought into the media narrative that Antifa is literally committing terror attacks. I called my mom today and told her I went to the Breonna Taylor protest in LA and she said that if she hadn’t have been hanging out with drug dealers that wouldn’t have happened to her. It really makes me not even want to come and visit them anymore.
I don't think getting older is an excuse. Plenty of bitter old lefties around hunkering down into Communism like a Russian Soldier into a winter trench line.
Hmm, I accept this. My parents were never left, just hippies.
I imagine you surmise that they’ve always been like this, deep down. Something is happening that is making them worse or pulling their latent bad tendencies to the surface.
I don't think they've always been like this, at least not any more than most people have a little voice inside that says "Wouldn't you like for everyone like you to loot the world, run anyone else before you, and sit on a throne of golden skulls, secure in your riches?"
What the chuds have done is make it easier for people to mistake that tiny Genghis Khan part of themselves for their actual opinions (expressed ironically or in veiled terms, of course.) And then further to link that to people that, quite frankly, they have neither cultural nor economic common cause with. False Consciousness is a bitch and it's really easy to drink the kool aid and pretend you'll be the leopard eating the people's face.
Are they "worse" people for having not completely overcome it? Maybe, others did. But it hardly matters, they're human beings and workers (I assume) and what matters is the material causes and effects and how we dispel it.