"Obama has fucked up the economy!"
Said my electrician this morning. Later I invited him to go fishing Saturday.
"No" he said, " I have too much customer work and need to work this weekend"..............
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We get rid of them one at a time, nice and quiet like. 
I am very close to my family members and love them dearly 
- but my entire family, siblings, kids and their families, their friends and colleagues (and most of mine) are Republicans - and mostly right-wing. They don't want to talk politics with me because facts are what they want to believe and what they want to hear.
I am way too liberal for their tastes (just being a democrat is way too liberal) and so instead of having an intelligent discussion, it just becomes an exercise in listening to GOP talking points that are not facts, and the party-line disgust for Obama (without reason or merit).
And to try to respond with the facts, or at least where they could research it for themselves was fruitless, because, true to their party, they don't want to research. They just want to hate on Obama, and believe those things that nicely fit into the mindset they have been conditioned to employ.
So it became a "rule" that we won't talk politics, because we cannot agree, and they "don't want it to impact our relationships". Please. Copout. Not my rule.
I have since found that is the case in MANY families who have a lot of right-wing conservative members and one or two liberals. They make rules to avoid talking about politics and religion (often, I guess, because the religion is so closely tied to the right-wing political philosophy). It is almost without fail the rule of the ultra-conservative...and not the liberal.
But it saddens and frustrates me.