I said pretty much the same thing to my sister-in-law last night at dinner and her eyes welled up and she said while choking back tears "That's crazy. Do you know how crazy you sound?"
I fought the urge to quote Michael Corleone responding to Kay in a similar situation. It would not have made matters any better.
Saw my formerly estranged sister of 20 years yesterday...she was watching MSNBC and told me she was obsessed and would be making calls for Hillary. I said nothing. After about an hr of conversation on other topics she asked me if I was voting for Hillary - I said no. I also said I wasn’t going to discuss it. (no use). She looked off into the distance and said “I don’t know how anyone could be so STUPID”.
I know how she can be so stupid...she watches MSNBC.
Way back in the 90s I was working with a woman who was Liberal — but she did not follow politics at all. I started talking about Bill Clinton and various policies or activities or scandals that were known to some of us but which (somehow) did not show up on the 6 o’clock news.
She put up both hands and said, “I live in a happy place. I don’t want to hear about any of that stuff.”
What can be said in response to that?