I have to admit...I am struggling. The current political climate is causing some soul-searching....

[JDPriestly]

20. We can't have a constructive with conservatives because they speak

a language all their own.

They don't mean the same things we mean by terms like entitlement, taxes, regulations (for me a very positive thing that protects our environment, wages, families, food, everything). . . .

Yesterday a Republican told me he thought it was terrible that people who lost their jobs got two years of unemployment insurance. He apparently does not know that a small part of every paycheck goes into an employer tax that supports the unemployment insurance fund and that, were it not for the Bush recession, the money in the unemployment insurance fund would have sufficed to pay all the benefits needed.

This man used the term unemployment insurance, but he had no clue as to what it means or where the money is supposed to come from. He also had no clue as to how we got in to our recession. No clue whatsoever. And what is more he is not well enough educated to have learned to listen patiently while someone else speaks.

So I don't think that talking to conservatives will work.