My sister in law,, her husband and daughter have always been Labour supporters. Not activists but middle of the road Labour people. SinL's only complaint about her future son in law was that "he votes Conservative".
Daughter started getting into alternative medicine quite a few years ago. Got deeper into it and now rejects all "medical" drugs.
SinL seems to think her daughter is the fount of all knowledge and never questions her views. The husbands tend to think what they are told, or at least never disagree with them even if in their minds they might be wondering if the statements are correct or not.
Met up once and SinL goes on about how vaccines are deliberately used to poison us and she would never have the flu jab etc. I made my views plain, I now wear two hearing aids, I have known people extremely death or nearly blind without glasses because we were born when there was no vaccine against measles. No reply but a sniff and a look of "you poor brainwashed fool".
Then came covid. It is all made up, the figures are lies, they are just trying to control us, we will not wear masks which are useless.
Now SinL who has never said anything in the least racist tells me she is fed up with the Black Lives Matter movement and that should be dropped. And she is fed up with the way Gay rights are being constantly pushed at us.
Odd she knows this as she became so violently anti the BBC and how dare they force us to pay a TV licence they eventually stopped paying it and now only watch the "excellent and far better than the BBC, Netflix". Stopped listening to the radio, the news used to be about all sorts of different things now it is all "one thing" meaning the covid "lies". And she did not get her newspaper this week because they get the Eastern Daily Press on a Saturday and Christmas Day meant it was not on sale. A very good newspaper but it is about Norfolk and North Suffolk with very little national or international news in it.
The problem is this is one family out of many who are being fed only lies and distortions and far right wing ideology. I worry about democracy in this country more than I ever have
She also said she was shocked to find an archaeological dig prior to a new road on the edge of her village. So much for knowing even local news.
She is coming out with more and more far right wing statements like "I refuse to give to food banks as the anyone can go and get stuff they can easily afford to buy". When I tried to explain how food banks work she looked as me as if I was a moron who had no idea of the reality.
Can she afford to buy a TV licence and donate to a food bank? Yes, she gets a state pension and a John Lewis pension. Her husband has three works pension and has to pay income tax. Others are working full time, do not earn enough to pay income tax and at times have to rely on a food bank or other charity.
This decent left of centre politically has become a far right person who only gets her news via the daughter who only gets her news from the conspiracy theory websites and forums she goes to online.
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