My dad’s a socialist and he just threw a shit fit at me

I made this throwaway and I’m posting here because I’m afraid to post this on r/socialism or someone will find out it’s me and dox me. So many comments on that sub have been hugely hurtful and given me flashbacks of when my dad would shout at me for having different opinions.<br><br>So yeah, my dad is possibly the most radical socialist in my family. Which means he’s going to be heavily influenced by this sub. I’m the only non socialist in the family and it creates huge amounts of conflict.<br><br>I am not American, but I’m from a country with a similar system of government. I don’t want to say where, but I am in university and I 100% support the Green Party. That is, I support a more centrist green party. I don’t want the left wing green party, I don’t want the right wing green party, I want a green party that is a mix of both left and right. <br><br>I brought this up to my dad because he’s been reading a lot of this sub that has been saying that the Green Party is a viable and realistic alternative to the two major parties in the US. And I told him that’s not how it works everywhere. I wanted to show him how many green parties there are, even in my country, but he would not hear me out and he shouted at me, telling me to get out. I’m an adult btw, I don’t live with him but I was back home to see him and my grandpa. But yeah, he won’t let me back in the house until I leave. And he’s been making snide comments about how I’m just being manipulated by the media to hate socialism and that’s why I don’t support the green party. <br><br>This is the first time in a while where he’s actually gotten mad at me but this sub has made him do it. I thought the point of socialism was to help people? But this sub has just made my dad more radical and alienate me and my grandpa. My grandpa also isn’t a socialist and has been very patient and kind towards my dad. <br><br>I’m very upset about this because my relationship with my dad is already complicated. He cheated on my mom and that’s why they got divorced. When I was younger he wouldn’t let me see my mom because he wanted sole custody and he didn’t want me to see my mom. My mom is also not a socialist and that’s why my dad didn’t want her raising me with capitalist values. Back then he wasn’t as radical as he is now but he still was pretty bad. My mom was able to get shared custody but she didn’t see me that much because she lived on the other side of the country and my grandpa lived near my dad. <br><br>I lived with my grandpa when my dad cheated on his second wife and cheated on her with her daughter. I was so fucking shocked by this, I was like 10 and I didn’t understand it at the time. My dad had always been weird about my aunt, and my grandpa was too, and I realise now that he was grooming her. The age of consent in my country is 16, but my aunt was 17, so it was legal, but the fact that my dad and my grandpa were so obsessed with her was fucking creepy. <br><br>After my dad cheated on his second wife with her daughter, I didn’t want to see my dad ever again. But my grandpa convinced me that my dad was a good person and that he was sorry and wanted to be friends again and that I should forgive him. I was young and stupid so I forgave him. My dad seemed to actually change, he was a lot nicer to me and he stopped being obsessed with my aunt. He became obsessed with me instead, he started telling me that he was so glad I was a girl because it meant he could be closer to me. I didn’t understand at the time but what he was saying was hugely inappropriate. He would also compare me to my aunt and tell me I was prettier and that I looked like my mother. <br><br>I didn’t understand how creepy and fucked up my dad was being, but my grandpa did. He would tell my dad to be more professional with me and not to compare me to other people. My dad’s obsession with me was at it’s worst when I was like 14 or 15. That’s when my grandpa and I started having huge fights about my dad. My grandpa told me I should stay away from my dad because he was creepy and inappropriate. I listened, and actually, my dad stopped being creepy and inappropriate once I hit puberty and started developing. So yeah, my relationship with my dad is already complicated, and this sub has made it worse. <br><br>Sorry for rambling a lot, I just wanted to point out that this sub has a history of radicalising people and isolating them from their families and loved ones. My dad and my aunt both had huge disagreements with my grandpa, and my aunt actually moved out because my grandpa started getting more and more strict. My aunt just left without telling anyone, and my grandpa and I were really worried because she didn’t come back for weeks, and when she did, she was really distant and she was just angry at us for not letting her go to parties. I really missed her and I wanted things to go back to normal but they never did and my grandpa was heartbroken. <br><br>This sub needs to be removed. I’m not saying that socialism is a bad thing and that all socialists are bad. They’re not. But the people on this sub are not socialists, they don’t want to help people, they just want to bully and intimidate people who don’t support socialism. They don’t care about people, all they care about it winning their stupid ideological crusade, even if it means destroying people’s relationships and lives.