Just curious. You start out blaming the parents, but then say your brother turned out to be a flaming liberal. I assume you had the same parents, and you seem to have turned out okay. So is your brother the result of how his parents raised him, or did he come by his views on his own?
Good question but quite the opposite... My parents and grand parents on my mother’s side are/were all Democrats. My mother actually asked me what happened to me to become a conservative. I said I grew up and that was probably 40+ years ago when I joined the military.
My mother who’s in her late 80’s won’t talk politics with me. I call every Sunday for 10 minutes or so.. (wife makes me). She got the “vaccine” as did my brother but I’m not allowed to visit her unless I get get it. I moved 1200 miles away by design so no issues there anyway.
What I do know is her, like my brother, are very low informed voters, don’t have a clue about the real world and believe everything the MSM tells them. They’ve lived in absolute fear for the past ~16 months and have gone nowhere.