[American Constitutionalist]

" It's why they don't listen to me, despite the fact that they admire and value my opinions in other areas. '

You just might be surprised that in fact that they are listening to you more than you think.
You said they admire and value your opinion in other areas ?
That tells me that the things you say and the things that you think are not sinking in are in fact sinking in.
The fact that they didn't even argue with you and gang up on you the last time that you had a political talk with them and they sat their quiet is in fact a new day and stepping in the right direction.
I would go on and venture that they brag about and are proud of their brother among co-workers or friends.

[Windflier]

The fact that they didn't even argue with you and gang up on you the last time that you had a political talk with them and they sat their quiet is in fact a new day and stepping in the right direction.

Well, I hope so. Perhaps they don't talk to me about any of this now, because they're embarrassed about how utterly wrong they were in 2008. It can be hard sometimes to own up to ones personal mistakes, and admit that others were right.

Dunno. That might be the case here. I'd like to think that's all it is, but I doubt it.

It takes education and accurate information to break free of the liberal indoctrination trap. I doubt if a single one of them has done the real work to escape the Democrat plantation.