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Centrisms Voice Donating Member (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 07:28 PM
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4. First, calm him down
Edited on Fri Sep-25-09 07:29 PM by Centrisms Voice
When he's in a calm mood, make him promise to answer you questions only with logic for the next x minutes. (Don't make X too big a number at first.)

Then, start with "If the rich get a tax cut, what's to stop them from socking it away in a Cayman Island bank instead of using it to hire middle class workers?"

I have lots of others, if you need them. :)
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  -Dealing With A Conservative Brother JMMendez1989  Sep-25-09 07:22 PM   #0 
  - I married into a religiously and politically conservative family. The best decision we ever made was  GreenPartyVoter   Sep-25-09 07:25 PM   #1 
  - yep. so my motto with two brothers and a father. i dont talk politics with you  seabeyond   Sep-25-09 07:25 PM   #2 
  - That's why mom has always liked you best  mitchum   Sep-25-09 07:27 PM   #3 
  - First, calm him down  Centrisms Voice   Sep-25-09 07:28 PM   #4 
  - people who talk over you and scream at you, you just have to distance yourself from them  pitohui   Sep-25-09 07:28 PM   #5 
  - I'm a twin, too.  babylonsister   Sep-25-09 07:30 PM   #6 
  - Intervention time.  Ian David   Sep-25-09 07:30 PM   #7 
  - Listen and ask questions  Xipe Totec   Sep-25-09 07:31 PM   #8 
  - This is the best advice I've seen  demwing   Sep-25-09 07:36 PM   #11 
  - There are things I can not talk to my brother about.  Ozymanithrax   Sep-25-09 07:32 PM   #9 
  - Welcome to DU!!!  tinkerbell41   Sep-25-09 07:33 PM   #10 
  - Try just discussing concepts without labeling them liberal or conservative.  ZombieHorde   Sep-25-09 07:40 PM   #12 
  - My brother, and, most sadly,  appamado amata padam   Sep-25-09 07:49 PM   #13 
  - Facts don't work  izquierdista   Sep-25-09 08:12 PM   #14 
  - Ask him if he'll listen to Thom Hartmann for two weeks.  B Calm   Sep-25-09 08:38 PM   #15 
  - Even I can't listen to Thom for two weeks straight, and we live in the same town.  stevedeshazer   Sep-25-09 09:02 PM   #17 
  - 2 of my little brothers are ultra right wing  Mari333   Sep-25-09 08:42 PM   #16 
  - There is a video of Al franken at the Minnesota state fair  rurallib   Sep-25-09 09:28 PM   #18 
 

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