Melas and If You Want It Fixed - Fix It, those are excellent responses. Perhaps some readers will be wise enough to take the advice.
I also like the thoughts of Melas and If You Want It Fixed. From a young age I have never thought it right to idolize any politician. That’s one of the reasons why the Obamessiah worship has been so horrifying to me. I have had numerous friends and significant others over the years who were Democrat/liberal/left wing and still do. I have never lost any of them over politics despite having at times screaming, heated political arguments with them. Amazingly, I have eventually converted ALL of them over the years. Just “converted” my 24th person in the past 30 years. Seriously, we would have screaming matches at times, but eventually they came around, sometimes afer years had gone by, and told me they finally saw the light. I never got into the pettiness of personalities but always pretty much stayed with logic, reason and arguing facts and ideology with them. Now I DO have some far left moonbat co-workers and casual friends. I do not even bother with discussing anything with them. They occasionally try to bait me but I keep it zipped and think that is the best approach because my silence and lack of response seems to make them think a little. At least more than if I knee-jerked reacted to their bait. I DO engage the young Obamabots because most seem to appreciate my age and experience and acknowledge that they haven’t lived long enough to know it all. I optimistically think I have even turned a few of them around or at least made them think a bit. As for extended family members I just try to keep it zipped. Not worth it. I have learned that the more I argue with some people, the more they just make me, rather than the issue, the target. It’s just not effective or productive. Sometimes just silence to them is the better tactic.