Can someone help me understand my wing nut friends?

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35. My mother and both sisters fit this description.

I have had to stop most contact with them. I am the caregiver for my older sister and the other two can not let the politics and religion go! They will blind side me at any turn. Mom is up here for a six week visit and is staying with a local church member because she can not stop watching FOX for one day here. She actually panics if she does not have access to it. 'I have a right to be an informed conservative America'. If you watch that channel you will see nothing but a current of anger and hate. How can we expect these folks to be normal after watching that day after day?

Before mom came up for this last trip she said that she would love to have time together with me while she is here. This is her usual hand reach effort which will end up in fights especially during this political season. I told her that I would be willing to go to psychiatrist visits with her while she was here to work on our relationship. If she didn't want to do that then treating each other cordially would be the best that we could hope for. She wasn't willing to try.

As sad as it is I think that your relationship with these folks will be stressed well past the election. When President Obama is reelected they will not rest easy. Their church and misguided faith in FOX is leading them down a path of isolation and destruction I fear.