Help me out guys; how to YOU counter stupidity from RW relatives?

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You're not going to reason her out of a position she didn't use reason to arrive at. The "Obama hates America!" thing is poisoning a lot of families just now, I think.

There's an unspoken (but very real) agreement between my parents and the rest of my family not to talk politics. My parents are pretty conservative (not to the point that your mother is, though). They don't agree with some of the things Obama does, but at least they're coming at it from a position of "I don't agree with him, but I think his heart is in the right place."

The rest of my family is much further left, myself included. And even with reasonable objections like those from my folks, dinnertime discussions of politics can be very tense and strained. I can't imagine what it'd be like if they were saying the sort of things your mother says.

Really, though, it's sad that it's come to this. Our families are a microcosm of our society at large. Rather than being able to discuss things in a civil manner, or even being able to politely agree to disagree, it seems the left and right sides of the American family only know how to scream at each other and throw things. No wonder nothing gets better.