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My sister-in-law is a flaming lefty. A college art professor.

In her words “Hillary has experience, she’s been a Senator and SOS. And she is calm and communicates well”. While “Trump is unstable and degrading to women and has no experience”.

She was truly giddy about Michelle Obamas speech the other night. In her world, after 8 years of Hillary would be 8 years of Michelle.

There is nothing anyone could do to change how she views the world.

My sister is one, as well. A former college instructor, married to a long-term public schools teacher. They are all in for Hillary. They believe they are smarter than nearly everyone else, and that the democrats have that intellect to make the correct choices “for the people”. They believe that we are better served by a government that does as much as possible for the citizens. They believe that the democrats and democrat-led government is better about making decisions as to how to spend our money than we are. They believe that republicans are greedy people, only out to keep their own money and not “invest” it to help all of society. For most liberals, they have a litany of rules that should be applied, but not necessarily to them, personally.

This sister and spouse came out some months ago to say they support Hillary, due to she is “honest and trustworthy”. They put up a post on their blog, mocking Trump after the first debate, showing some of his many facial expressions, saying he looks like a 6th grader throwing tantrums. Then they put a picture of Hillary (remember her plastic/botox face for that debate) looking angelic for contrast.

They have a son who is a pilot in the USAF, which is kind of amazing. When my son was in Iraq (2004-5?) with USMC infantry, and I expressed worry about his well-being, since people were trying to kill them every day, this sister lectured me about we would not even be in Iraq if GWB had not lied.

They seem to have an ability to idealize everything, and to expect that everyone else play by the rules of their idealism. They visited me some years ago (when we still spoke to one another), and had not told their son, who was about 6 years old, that I was getting/had gotten divorced. So he came into the house, looking for his uncle “John”. They said they did not know how to explain it to him, but his own dad was on his 2nd marriage to my sister, and he had two half-sisters. It did not fit with what they wanted him to think, is my take on it.