You make good points. My sister and her immediate family are liberals - they used to record Keith Olbermann - if you can believe that. She hates the idea that this is a “you’re on your own” country. She also complained that she’s been mostly working for insurance - forgetting that they put one kid through college, another almost through, paid off their house and took European vacations every year. They think Bush and Cheney are incredibly evil.
For the sake of family harmony we’ve learned to keep politics out of our conversation. However it will be hard to resist bringing up Olbermann...snicker!
I can relate - my brother in law gets his “news” from MSNBC, Jon Stewart and loves Rachel Maddow. He blasts conservatives and FNC but would never try watching it himself. Unfortunately, he’s brainwashed my sister who should know better (we come from generations of small business owners and farmers). And he retired from Coca Cola, his dad from Procter and Gamble (both were executives and have very nice stock portfolios).
He and she have become millionaires thanks to corporate America, he is very materialistic yet blasts “big business” every chance he gets. A very hypocritical Limousine Liberal. It’s beyond frustrating to even try discussing reality with them. Sad.