[Kory]

It's definitely really sad to see how some of the "older generation" thinks about things!

My parents' marriage seems to be testy right now, since my father has retired, he's fully immersed himself in news and politics. So much, to the point where he says a lot of random racist things and while he was once a hard-working, open-minded and caring person... he's almost completely changed into someone I don't recognize anymore.

We used to be good friends, Papa and I. We could talk about comic books, music (my dad was a hippie back in the day, and so he introduced me to a lot of good ol' classic American rock and folk bands... We really bonded over our eclectic tastes of music.) My dad is just as big of a movie buff as I am too, so he's introduced me to thousands of really good movies. We watched so many crazy movies and it was fun to watch movies with him...

He's changed, though... Oftentimes, mom and I will go to the coffee shop and stay there all day just so we can avoid my dad's constant barrage of spewing negative news and racism.

I feel this might be happening to a lot of the "older generation".... I think they retire, then they realize they don't have a life outside of working, so they just stay at home, enclose themselves in a room and watch the news and they're pretty gullible sometimes and they believe whatever the news says. It scares them, then they're like, "this generation is going to hell! We're all going to die!" But they are also like, "Nah, climate change isn't real! We don't have to take any precautions"....

I think the main thing is that, a lot of times, the older generations (from my experience) usually only listen to what they want to hear. If they have their own hidden racist thoughts, they are likely to believe stories in the news that supports their beliefs.