I love the kid and it's difficult to engage him in battle. Until he went off to Rutgers University, I was confident he would be a conservative.
Rutgers. My old neighborhood.
My wife’s entire family are traditional Brooklyn Jewish Liberals. One night many years ago at Passover they were arguing about Clinton. My dad said “it’s th economy stupid”, my wife’s aunt took offense, my inlaws jumped on my dad and I finally ended the conversation.
My comment, “look, this will go nowhere. Face it, if Hitler had a D next to his name, they would still vote Democrat.”
Mae never spoke about politics again.
You have my sympathy! I don’t know what it is that makes people adopt the mindset, I flirted with it briefly myself when young. You know the drill, “If you are not a socialist when you are young you have no heart.” I pretty well got past that before turning 20. I recall one good friend and shipmate I used to drink with sometimes on liberty in Italy. He told me once that he was a socialist and when I tried to point out the error in his thinking he ignored what I said, he didn’t get angry but he simply could not conceive of the idea that what he claimed to believe was absurd. For a while I accepted the idea that it was all a matter of opinion but it is not really any more than the Sun rising in the East is a matter of opinion. The advocacy of Socialism is evidence of a mental disorder.