If you're like me, you struggle with how to INTERACT with others who seem so hard-hearted (edited)

[get the red out]

7. What's strange that I see

A lot of righties do have compassion, but they vow that they HATE anything hinting of liberalism. My husband is like this. He came home upset one night that a waitress that was kind to him at Bob Evans was waiting at the bus stop when he left, he thought it was horribly unfair that she probably wasn't making enough money (what we insane liberals would call a "living wage&quot . They just have been turned against verbiage, not all, but a lot of them. And they like hearing a bunch of he-man crap. The compassion is there though, I just have no idea how to convince any of them that we are talking about the same stuff sometimes. The brainwashing on certain terms and ideas is thorough. I keep working on Mike when I we are discussing something we both think is wrong, I make sure not to use politicized words though. The words Fox and Limbaugh have destroyed in our society.

My BIL is a compassionate right leaning guy, he might be reachable, but my sister and he have been fighting since the court upheld Obamacare. He refuses to look at the fact that it will save lives, he says "it's not that simple" every time my sister tells him that. Avoidance. He is convinced it will hurt businesses. His Dad is also an insurance guy. He's also an avid hunter and believes "liberals will take his guns". He will be past Obamacare in another year or so, when it is simply what is. He has bought into that NRA crap though. Funny that his sideline is lovingly producing free range, all natural eggs from happy chickens.

Me, I'm nastier than both those guys and have very strong opinions which I curse freely about, God knows how many people freak out over my indelicacy, so I guess I am Limbaughesque on some things myself (women's rights and animal abuse).

Sorry for the rant, I guess the bottom line in my mind is language. We need to find language that hasn't been destroyed by the right. Key words just shut them down and they stop hearing. Bill Clinton is a master at putting things in a way that the kind of folks you are hoping to reach can get.