> You are describing my oldest sister to a tee. When I visit back east around Thanksgiving, I make an effort to say not a word about her Tiger-Beat like photo montage/ ‘Shrine’ to Obama. It’s disgusting and I’m a bit disappointed that she doesn’t even bother trying to see what’s really transpiring. We used to discuss politics, but we don’t talk of the Presidency since Novemeber of 2008. Like most libs, she cannot handle any dissenting views. So fine, keep your head in the sand, is what I’ll be thinking.
After many years of trying to reason logically and rationally with emotional thinkers I have realized its an exercise in futility and no matter how much fact gathering you do, no matter how much effort you put into laying the information out that would lead a reasonable and intelligent person to come to the same conclusion it will not work because they have too much pride or are too arrogant to admit what is evident. They are the knee-jerking reactionists that give tyrants like Barack Obama and his kind his power. All you can look forward to is the day they they have to fall on their own sword and reap the consequences when they realize you were right and only trying to sound the warning bells and protect the other villagers.
I didn’t speak to my best friend for six months after I found out she voted for him in 2012. I think she voted for him because she & her elderly parents are all ill & on govt assistance. I feel sad that they will end up on pain pills instead of real treatments. All are pretty sick, so they won’t be considered productive.
I can’t talk politics with her - she’s now claiming that she too, was a community organizer (um, no, she wasn’t). I wonder who gave her so much kool aid.