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3. There was a very good one I watched several years ago called The Brainwashing of My Dad

Thu May 28, 2026, 04:25 PM

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It's dated now because most of it takes place during Obama's first term, but the message is still the same.

It breaks down how the right wing media infrastructure brainwashes viewers and radicalizes them, and the person who films the documentary uses her dad as the main example throughout. When they cut him off from the propaganda, he slowly returns to normal over time.

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