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Talking sense to a "conservative" is harder than sweet-talking one of my ex-wives into sleeping with me again; it can be done, but it's not easy and requires massive amounts of artery-bursting stress and frustration for a payoff that, in the larger scheme of things, is relatively modest.
When talking to conservatives, it helps to pretend you're reading a Superman comic and what they say is simply dialog taking place on the Bizarro world. With my ex-wives it takes massive amounts of cannibis and an iron-willed determination that nothing she says will harsh my vibe. Oh, yeah, and a Johnny Taylor CD, too
