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I got an email from one of our viewers named Daniel and Daniel emailed me about
his mom Louis
and others reach you what daniel said and then we'll give our thoughts daniel
said
hey David my mother who is in her late 50's recently has started listening
listening to conservative talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh
and has even gone as far as visiting the Tea Party website she's also started
going back to church for the first time in years
since then she's constantly echoing typical conservative
ideals even displaying racist and anti-gay tendencies
such as confusing and Indian man working at a gas station for an Islamic
extremist
whose sole purpose is that quote take our jobs which never used to happen
he's now convinced that Obama is the anti-christ I don't like bush 2.0 either
but my reasons are not hate induced I always try to correct her when something
is factually wrong
but nothing is getting through to her I'm just the young college student the
plans on moving out soon so maybe I shouldn't worry about it
Louis this is tough I mean it depends on what you mean by worry about it right
if your concern is an elec Torre one if you're concerned
that your mom might swing an election based on her newfound
conservative Tea Party racist views then I don't think you should really be that
concerned we are only talking here about one vote although every vote counts in
matters
equally you shouldn't get overly stressed just because
%uh because if this one vote if you're more concerned which would really be the
concern to me Lewis
that this represents a broader
ripped in terms of the ideology
love your mom and you and you're concerned about more broadly
how it could affect your relationship with your mom that's really the where
the area that I would be concerned about right lou is not so much the electoral
right I mean this could be something that ruins
ruins that relationship but a I tend to think that
as people get older I Bay they keep going in a direction that they were
originally headed on they don't pay cut
it doesn't really play tell if they tend to be a person is more skeptical
afraid worried about things I believe that gets worst
and the opposite is true also I think yet so
there's this kind of conventional wisdom that some have that as you get older you
get more conservative
and we've rejected that completely on the show Louis what we found is that at
any given time
the all this generation seems to be the most conservative
but individuals don't actually broadly speaking tend to get more conservative
they seem to
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have the belief that they already were held so as Lewis said more liberals may
get more liberal conservative more conservative
so my advice would be I big
figure out if your concern here is really one
about the politics or is that really what about the relationship with your
mom because so many times we've heard stories from people who is where
relationships go bad with family
for either religious or political reasons and
%uh that to me would really be the biggest thing in a peep the people have
different political views
if it doesn't effect the family relationship that the most important
thing
right my advice would be to I just continue talking with your mom just not
about politics because they don't think she's ever going to get the message
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