My Son just turned 30 last July. He is showing signs of acknowledging that he was robbed of a balanced education while he attended American University in Washington DC.
I frequently challenged him on citing the source of his “facts” in our debates. He would accuse me of having a closed mind in not seeing his “obvious” truths. My counter was always to ask for logic in our discussions as opposed to wishes in his arguments. He never won one of our discussions and he would never admit that he lost. He was torn.
I found that a very successful tact of mine that got through to him was in his passion of denouncing everything that is wrong, I asked him to state what his politically philosophy was for? What did he espouse as what we should be working toward and how should we get there. Between 9/11 and some of the frauds that have come out of the woodwork and the absolutely false and wrong things said by some of the leaders in the Democratic party, he is struggling with his convictions. It is also very unsettling to him that he baby sister (20) is a logical thinker and debunks a lot of his pseudo intellectual mutterings. My Little Girl is re-educating her brother. It is a rewarding thing to see.
Brian will come around and it will be his little sister that will offer him a helping hand. My Daughter goes to Rutgers University! A pretty liberal institution, but by its very liberalness (is there such a word??) has strengthened her convictions that it is more important to “think” than “feel”.
I done good with her!