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How do you talk to relatives who are politically stupid?

Posted on 01/27/2018 10:37:14 AM PST by Krosan

My cousin is an anesthesiologist. I think she is really smart, but she works 13 hours every day and perhaps doesn't have time to think. She is saying the dumbest leftist things, but I know she is not a bad person.

Perhaps you guys have some pieces of advice on how to talk with your family when they've been fooled like that.


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1 posted on 01/27/2018 10:37:14 AM PST by Krosan
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To: Krosan

I talk slow and use little words.


2 posted on 01/27/2018 10:37:43 AM PST by henkster (YA - russkiy bot)
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To: Krosan

Fortunately I don’t have any of those.


3 posted on 01/27/2018 10:38:28 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Krosan

Never Wrestle With a Pig.


4 posted on 01/27/2018 10:39:29 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: henkster

Tell her she has been misinformed.

She has probably absorbed many false assumptions about reality.


5 posted on 01/27/2018 10:39:30 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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I stop interacting with relatives who cannot think and reason. Relatives who are actively working to hurt me and my family see severed relationships.


6 posted on 01/27/2018 10:39:32 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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She knows bigger words than me.


7 posted on 01/27/2018 10:39:51 AM PST by Krosan
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I ask leading questions that have obvious answers.


8 posted on 01/27/2018 10:40:15 AM PST by taxcontrol (SStupid should hurt)
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“Hi”. “Good to see you”....”Goodbye”.


9 posted on 01/27/2018 10:40:36 AM PST by FrankR (The 'Land of the Free' is inversly proportional to the 'Home of the Brave'.)
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I don’t waste my time with them.


10 posted on 01/27/2018 10:40:52 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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FUHGETAHBOUTIT,

She probably works at a Hsptl and all she sees is CNN. Its a mind control ploy

Just ask her for some good drugs, forget politics


11 posted on 01/27/2018 10:40:59 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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i don't.
12 posted on 01/27/2018 10:41:04 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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That depends on the person, but I usually start by asking questions. Socratic method. Try to find common ground and then go from there.


13 posted on 01/27/2018 10:41:16 AM PST by grimalkin (You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible. - T. Sowell)
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Never.


14 posted on 01/27/2018 10:41:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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I disown everyone who is not conservative. It avoids many headaches including family disputes.


15 posted on 01/27/2018 10:42:19 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Note to all foreigners: Please.....GET OUT and STAY OUT!)
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Never Wrestle With a Pig.

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Yep. Best to just roll the eyes and sigh.


16 posted on 01/27/2018 10:42:43 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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Sometimes it is best to let them read and absorb.

<>Soteriology — Salvation
https://bible.org/seriespage/8-ecclesiology-church

<>Christology — Jesus Christ
https://bible.org/seriespage/3-christology-jesus-christ


17 posted on 01/27/2018 10:42:50 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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I tell them, “I stopped mistaking popular opinion for the truth when I left Junior High.”

Truth can be tested against provable facts, not subject to whim.


18 posted on 01/27/2018 10:42:51 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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My sister and her husband and daughter are leftists. We live in different states and barely communicate. Sad but we are polar opposites. She loved Obama. I couldn’t get past that. We aren’t even Facebook friends now.


19 posted on 01/27/2018 10:43:29 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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Slowly


20 posted on 01/27/2018 10:43:31 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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