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Last Wednesday, I posted about going to spend the weekend with my very Republican parents. I had hoped that we could avoid a politically-driven meltdown. Alas, it was not to be avoided.
Things were actually going well until Saturday night. My mom saw me checking John Edwards' website and we actually had a calm, decent conversation about he and Elizabeth. She even seemed interested (gasp!) in his message. Not that she'd ever vote for him, but I have hope that at least she doesn't consider him the spawn of Satan.
Well. Then came Saturday. We were sitting in the living room watching the TV news (alas, I was not in control of the remote) and there was a piece bestowing the virtues of John McCain (yeah, I was in Arizona). I rolled my eyes, I sighed deeply...and that set off a rather spectacular argument. My mom was actually a passive bystander (which makes me have at least a little bit of faith in her still), but my stepfather is entirely hopeless.
Honestly, I didn't even debate him. I just posed a few simple questions and challenged him to answer them: Did Iraq have WMD? Did they have nuclear weapons? Oddly (or, you know, not) he didn't have a response. But that didn't stop him from becoming almost enraged and incredibly defensive. Not pretty.
I hate that politics is making it incredibly difficult to spend time with my family. I still have hope for my mom, but ugh. She's going to be visiting me in April...without the stepdad. That should go more smoothly. I hope.
Sigh. x(
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