I had some pretty brutal discussions with my dad who is a hardcore liberal of the “the answer lies somewhere between the middle of left and right” type. He agrees with a lot of socialist stances and class war but refuses to acknowledge that a revolution is needed to achieve socialism, that killing people wouldn’t make us better than the owning class and that violence is bad and that we should try to change the system by voting that voting will bring lasting change and not a revolution…all this kind of crap. He thinks that i got too “radicalized” and that im stuck in a bubble of propaganda and now he wants to have more control of the media i consume and that when he sees me watching or reading an article that i show him the sources of these articles. He really wants me to “keep an open-mind” which to him literally just means returning to being a liberal. The more of these discussions i have with my father the more i feel a distance between us and i would love if we just ignored our political opinions and kept living our lives how we always did but he insists that i am being groomed by some megalomaniac organization or a goofy ah evil person to join some kind of leftist jihad: “Yes you are entitled to have your opinion but you should also keep an open mind but the problem is that your opinion is not correct” that all i hear from him.
Yea, it’s a pretty similar situation for me here, my parents also are diehard libs. My dad is worse than my mom, he thinks I consumed “Russian propaganda” whatever that is supposed to mean. They are nice people and generally try to respect my beliefs a little bit but at the end of the day they are still libs and they have told me when I tried to explain my thoughts to them that they are too old to care. I try not to bring up politics around them but sometimes it slips out. From your description of events it sounds like your father is genuinely concerned for you being brainwashed, obviously this is not the case. But for his entire life he has been told that leftists are being controlled and are misguided, he will not change this view without many decades of work, so if I were you I would simply try to convince him that you in particular are not being brainwashed and why you think a leftist jihad is a waste of time. This worked for me pretty well, and my dad doesn’t really bring up “Russian propaganda” anymore. Have a great day and I wish you the best!