Either your niece respects you or she doesn’t. You need to continue opening dialogue since you hold the truth which terrifies her.
My niece respect me, I know she does.
Remember, she’s living with a liberal, a nice guy really, but he’s some kind of public union member and Tina....she’s struggled and bought a home all by herself, she’s under water a bit but she works on and says she’s the light.
She admits outright that she’s acknowledges readily that she’s not smart enough to have a political opinion....I suppose she means not informed enough cause she’s certainly smart enough. And no, she’s not informed enough to have an opinion. I asked her if liberal friend Joe Blow ever watches Fox News.
“No. He would not ALLOW Fox News on the TV.”
My rant with niece was not only her tirade about Rush, and the Tea Party, all boilerplate she heard somewhere, but it’s how they take words from someone else and say it’s their opinion. When I asked niece to tell me just what Rush ever said that so ired her, of course she had no answer. She never listened to Rush Limbaugh in her life. Joe Blow boyfriend...a real mental lightweight, told her Rush was bad.
I told her it was arrogant to refuse to watch a network which beats all the other cable news networks hands down and even some of the Lamestream take a back seat to Fox. How on earth can one be so full of themselves as to pronounce that which a large majority of the people choose? 20 million people listen to Rush Limbaugh daily. How arrogant to call 20 million people stupider than you.
My rule is going to be, from now on, that I will NEVER discuss politics in any setting that is not, specifically, a political one. So I shall opinionate on FreeRepublic, for example, but not at family gatherings with liberals around.
I SHALL, however, continue to write on the subject. Don’t forget my Delaware column, which many, many read and I even managed to get daughter and Tina reading it as I speak of many folks they both know. I also am friends on Facebook with my nieces and I pontificate quite often.
I also have my own Blog which nieces et al read fairly regularly.
THAT will be my political forum, a site that they can, or not, choose to visit, and read my take on things.
That’s my decision.
For now.