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Move to the NE or West Coast and live there and immerse yourself in the Goron culture for a while. You'll see that there is no reconciling the two. Sooner or later, something will happen. The two visions of American can't be reconciled. One wants small government and low taxes, the other wants the nanny state and tax somebody else. I live in the heart of the kind of people that elected Hillary. Nothing Bush does or says or ever *will* do or say will make them accept him or anything he does/says. Ever. They are diametrically oppopsed to everything he stands for. Every gesture he makes to their beliefs they'll return 10 fold in big government. A few of them think he's basically a nice guy, somebody you'd have a game of softball with. But, they certainly don't want his 'kind' running things or setting social agendas. HeavenForbid! They think the war on terror is about Bush's big oil interests, they think the Iraq thing is his getting even for his Dad's loss/etc. They've been brainwashed thoroughly and there is no hope. The lights are on but nobody is home.

You are so right! You're not the only person who has friends and family members who hate Republicans and cannot discuss issues without resorting to name-calling. I have two sisters who both make over 100 grand working for a major corporation more than twice what yours truly makes. Yet the only thing they could talk about the last time we met was how much they despised Bush and how sad it is that the U.S is run by "terrible white males". I finally asked my oldest sister, who has quite a lot of kale saved up (which let her give my parents a brand new European car ..Audi or something like that...among other luxuries), if her life was terrible. She admitted that she was living pretty good. Then I asked her what she was complaining about. She had no answer.

All my three sisters are (1) ardent Democrats and (2) have a dismal knowledge of current events and economic facts. The two situations seem to go together.