If your conservative family starts to bitch? Show them the newspaper election day photo galleries of the NY Times, the UK Sun, the Manchester Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, the Washington Post, etc. Show them how much social capital we've suddenly gained as a nation and point out that THIS? THIS is how you sway people to the American cause and to the democratic cause. THIS is how you court the world and prime it for democracy. This is how you uplift.
Bless my brother in law, even though he's a Bill O'Rielly fan, he has never once crucified me for my political leanings. I caught him buying an O'Reilly book once, I said, "Dude, why would you buy that?"
His reply?
"Gordon, I'm buying it because I'm a Republican, and you're a Democrat, so I don't expect you to dig it. That's alright, though." And I got a friendly pat on the shoulder, and he went on talking to me (or should I say listening intently as I babbled on about Marvel Two-In-One.
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I lost count of how many times I cried last night.
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His reply?
"Gordon, I'm buying it because I'm a Republican, and you're a Democrat, so I don't expect you to dig it. That's alright, though." And I got a friendly pat on the shoulder, and he went on talking to me (or should I say listening intently as I babbled on about Marvel Two-In-One.
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