Reply #7: I am the only left-winger in my whole family. [View All]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

My dad is in his 80s; he's well-educated and still quite sharp mentally, and he swears by the rot that appears in the Wall Street Urinal. He's an economic conservative who can't or doesn't want to admit that the current crop of Republicans are not true conservatives. I think he's just too old and stubborn to want to reconsider his politics. The other day I remarked in passing that I thought Bush was a total dumbass and he got almost irrationally angry, so I dropped it. My brothers are your basic I-got-mine-to-hell-with-you Republicans who, when challenged about what a dickwad Bush is, fall back on the standard BS about how terrible Clinton was (everything bad is his fault) or how much worse Kerry would have been. We'd end up yelling each other, so now we all carefully avoid discussing politics. These are all smart, educated people (and are not religious nuts by any means), and it just kills me that they so readily accept the bilge they hear from the GOP and Pox News.