There is no common ground with these people. I had lunch last friday with a guy i used to work with. NY and Jewish and while i love him dearly, we agree on nothing politically. hadn’t seen him for awhile, so after we caught up on family stuff i just dipped a toe into the whole obama mess, and he read from the lib talking points completely: what COULD obama do with the republicans voting against him at every turn. Said he didn’t know enough about the immigration thing to comment on that, BENGHAZI: he heard Hillary say LIVE, what diff does it make and thought it was TERRIFIC! i tried ISRAEL, knowing he loves it has been often etc. and even there: Obama’s SOS tried valiantly, worked hard but neither side is willing to give so what can he do? Ed faults both sides, says the last time they were there they had a Palestinian tour guide who had his papers taken by the Israelis, even though they were entirely in order, and the israeli’s lost the papers and the guy was jailed. Ed claims to know the guy and that the Palestinian guy was perfectly legit etc. So what is to be done? Nothing, we cannot possibly convince these lunatics. it’s hopeless.
I just had a Twitter exchange with a local leftist and she would not address my point about “least restrictive means” just kept throwing out talking points.
I finally told her it’s ok if she doesn’t know what it means and that I understood it was an emotional issue.
I think she probably took it as condescending, and it was. LOL
It’s why I really have nothing to do with them. We cannot discuss anything. They are blind. And I strongly believe those opinions bleed over into all aspects of their lives, leaving nothing in common as far as values go.