Do you ever read facts/perspectives on the DU that allow you to dominate conversations in real life?

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11. Perhaps I phrased that less than perfectly

I'm basically a lone liberal living in a red state surrounded by wingnuts, the only real defense against them conversationally when they inevitably bring up politics is a strong offense. The ones who know me don't use "funny" phrases for Obama, like Obummer, any more at least within my hearing. I also hear less and less of the latest Sean Limbaugh talking points since I'm often able to make the person saying them see how ridiculous they actually are.

It all depends on your personal situation, if you are mostly among like minded people it must be nice to not be constantly bombarded with right wing talking points in every conversation, not all of us are so lucky.

For instance I was in the thrift store of all places just the other day talking to the manager I know casually, he mentioned that donations are way down and I asked him what he attributed that to. His answer was "The economy, Obama", I then gently pointed out that the Republicans have voted down every proposal that they could which might help the economy recover, it only took a couple of minutes before he was agreeing with me that the Republicans are more to blame than the POTUS.