Let me say it right here, if you voted for Trump-I do think you are a racist, homophobic misogynist.

[lark]

31. No intellectual curiousity is part of the drumpf votere pattern.

I get it, she's your sister and you love her and excuse her for things you'd condemn someone else. I have a not dissilimiar circumstance in that my best friend, we always call each other sister/friends, for the past 26 years probably voted for Drumpf. She's a wonderful person is every day, giving and kind to everyone, except she's a Repug. Her daddy was the Repug Mayor of a small town in GA, where she grew up and she was a Repug City Council member there years later. She's not racist, very pro women's lib and pro-choice, and she's one of the smartest people I've ever met. However, again, she's died in the wool Repug and hated Hillary, she's also 75, so not going to change. I have avoided asking her about the election, afraid of the answer and not wanting to fight with her because true friends are rare. So, a few weeks ago we were having lunch and she said something about Drumpf (of course she said Trump) being a smart businessman. I couldn't take it and decided to address (gently) the elephant in the room. I said I didn't think he was a good businessman. I said his dad listed giving him loans and gifts totaling $76 million dollars, she agreed. I said I read that if that was invested in a conservative stock fund, he'd now be worth 17 billion and he's only worth 4 billion, so that seems like he's made tons of bad deals, filed BK6 times, so not so smart after all. She agreed about the $$ and seemed surprised by these facts. Then I started talking to her about Medicare and SS and does she really think she's going to be exempt from it once they get their hands on all our $$? She agreed that within a few years everyone will be on voucherized Medicare and it will buy basically nothing and that SS changes being discussed also are nothing more than a way for Wall St. and bankers to take all our $$ for themselves. Having gotten agreement on all these, I rested on my laurels and changed the topic. I could tell that she was thinking about what I'd said for the rest of our visit and wasn't happy at all with what her party is doing. Small steps.