I'd suggest NOT giving him more liberalism, since that has already demonstrated the predictable outcome.

By “fascist” you mean “supports ethnic cleansing”, or “doesn’t agree with me on every single political issue”?

I'd be curious about what makes him different from the others. There's been some research regarding fluid intelligence* vs. crystalized intelligence, where liberals tend to be more on the fluid side. It kind of makes sense because rather than trying to figure out what they can't understand off the bat, conservatives tend to rage against it.

As far as gifts, I dunno. Maybe a puzzle game? I don't know what's big in the puzzle game world now, if anything. The idea is make your son more comfortable with the idea of tackling novel problems instead of trying to cram them into an existing framework.

*it's called "intelligence" but I tend to think of it more like a thinking strategy. Fluid intelligence being "can I think of a way to solve this?" while crystallized intelligence is "what strategy that I'm familiar with already can solve this?"

I'm not joking or kidding or insincere. I actually don't know what to do.

I would say, a good conversation. Listen to him, ask question, don't be too judgemental (and that can be hard). But also accept, that for a big part, you can't form/force his way of thinking. In the end he has to find his own way in life.

does he like music? see if theres any old punk shows around or any records/vinyls if he likes that at all. sex pistols, dead kennedys, hell, even green day.

Give him a book by Robert Nozick, so he discovers what coherent conservative philosophy sounds like

• Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread (1892)
• Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
• Abdullah Öcalan, Democratic Confederalism (2011)

Annotated Mein Kampf:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/04/annotated-version-of-hitlers-mein-kampf-a-hit-in-germany.html

A ticket to visit https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/slavery-and-freedom

or

https://www.theauschwitztours.com/

A course for https://coursebrowser.dce.harvard.edu/course/slavery-and-historical-memory/

Gift him the yellow badge. Let him wear it and slowly remove his luxury to do things throughout the December.

Disconnection notice from the ISP.

A contract to not use the internet for a year in exchange for X cash/gift.

Fake Klux invitation.

A visit to people with different views including the thing his on, plus if old people for uncool effect.

Das Kapital

Coal. For some reason Republicans love that stuff.

The best gift will be the same understanding, acceptance, and love you show all your kids.

I’d recommend some Scott Galloway. He’s an advocate for young men, but he’s not one of those toxic manosphere types. He’s not exactly a leftist, but he’s certainly a liberal by today’s standards.

A lot of people recommend anything, outdoors, hiking, camping, dirt bikes etc.

I want to say you have to be careful with those. As you can easily spiral into right wing, conspiracy theorist territory.

Youtube is very good at pushing that kind of content.

Maybe something about food, like cooking classes, or about traveling.

Edit: I developed my comment a bit more below. Hiking isn't a right wing hobby per say. But here is the experience I had with youtube. If you start browsing video about camping and hiking. You will probably start browsing video about solo camping, then survivalism. Then youtube will try to push video about paranormal activities and conspiracies.

So the important part is cut down on social media.

I think a lot of right wing people are people who have travelled very little. If OP can afford it, maybe a trip somewhere with the family.

First question: when you use the terms “liberal” and “fascist” do you mean them in their original sense or as they are currently employed in US English?

We really need better terms than facist or nazi. People keep confusing the meaning of the words because its all we have for description of this thoughtset. There might be some overlap, but unless it 100% fits it just creates opportunities for people to be confused and issue to get muddied by pointless arguments and misunderstandings.

For some time i have thought this type of thoughtset as "dark humanity", but i'm not sure how fitting term it is and it feels kind of over dramatic. It just feels like humans are fundamendally split about one or more core issues, with some in the middle too. Though i'm also worried that making such clear distinction would also make the separation more solid. The issues also need more defining.

Why we need better terms is that we need to be able to confront these people without insulting them as first thing, otherwise we are just aiding the enemy by pushing them further in. Calling someone nazi or facist only hurts if there is any chance to save them. Its no better than calling someone libtard.

Perhaps if u talked to ur son abput his beliefs and didnt invalidate his opinions simply because u disagree u might both learn a little and grow as people. Calling ur son a fascist is only going to make him more steadfast in his beliefs.

Trying to force him to believe what u want instead of teaching him to think fof himself and excercise his free will to develop his own identity separate from what u told him might be a wise idea.

As for what to get him for Christmas how about sonthibg unrelated to politics that he legitimately wants. Go speak to him and ask him.

Maga hat and the tshirt with Trumps mug shot or the picture after he got shot

https://theauthoritarians.org/