re: My dad is a right wing a-hole

My grandmother is a lifelong democrat living in Mississippi. I stayed with her for a few weeks over the summer and took the opportunity to study her political philosophy. What it basically boils down to is, she's a democrat because my grandfather, her husband, was a train conductor and belonged to a union. They were duped by typical Union thugs into believing that the big mean Republicans would have taken away all his conductor and military retirement pay which she has been living off of for the past 30 years.

That's literally the only reason she's a democrat.

When I dug deeper I found her views actually line up more with big gov Republican types, especially the Evangelical wing, but she refused to even entertain the idea.

It's sad watching her try to validate her party affiliation- she ignores the fact that everything the Democrats stand for directly conflicts with the principles she lives her life on, all because the party convinced her they gave her a cookie.

She can't accept that the government wasn't what gave her and my grandfather comfort in retirement, that it was actually the decades of hard work my grandfather put in and earned himself. Hard-working, principled democrats are fooled by their own party into believing they have the government to thank for what they have, they allow their party to diminish their own accomplishments which were achieved through hard-work, determination, unwavering faith, blood, sweat, and tears.