Reply #19: Thoughts on convincing family members about what is true and right

[genna]

Now how do I use this info to show my 82 year old mother that she should not vote Repub?

Honest opinion?


Let their record speak for them.

Let the Democrats' actions speak for us.

I think voters really do a gut check thing when it comes to people. Whatever stereotypes people have will come to play in their votes.

Experience --- Explaining and contrasting is the only thing a person can do to convince a person that they are off.

I was for Hillary Clinton at first. Her campaigning tactics changed my mind. My mother was not interested in the subtext for most of this primary. I kept coming back, asking her if she truly stands for the principles you think why is she doing x, y, or z. She voted for her anyway.

She felt like the media was being unfair to Hillary and voted against Obama because he didn't have Hillary's experience. (Trust me, I kept asking her 35 relevant years of government policy making experience?) She told me that I wouldn't understand what women, Hillary Clinton and my Mom's age had gone through to actually have something. TO HER Obama was the upstart that wanted to do this hope thing, but what was that all about really.


My Mom regrets her vote because Clinton's race baiting became obvious to her. She can find more wrong with what Hillary let go in terms of principle and belief than she can say is wrong with Obama. She still feels like he has to express who he is and what he is truly all about, but she will vote for him in the fall.

You win over your parent by reasoning with them. My logic was lost on Mom until Hillary went nuclear.