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Fox News. A lot of older folks were brought up to believe in the professionalism of the evening news, as in Walter Cronkite. They haven't cottoned onto the fact that the news is only as good as who is portraying it. Times have changed and they haven't fully understood the ways in which it has changed.Something that's been on my mind is how much worse my parents have gotten as they go into their 70's... it doesn't happen to everyone, but quite a few people become a lot more paranoid and xenophobic in their old age. I know of elderly people who somehow manage to completely avoid this transformation, but it happens and one day will happen to us Milenials... I just hope to be one of the people who avoid it.
Mind you, my father was never very progressive... he just got a lot worse. I think my mom still knows there is something wrong with Trump, but is very influenced by my dad. So maybe it's not that progressives suddenly get less progressive, but natural bigots just stop feeling the need to hide it and suppress it after a point.
A daily diet of Fox News and other biased organizations takes it toll. The left isn't immune from it either, preferring online information that may or may not be heavily biased and influenced by outside organizations. Older folks are still glued to the tv, though.