> He can listen to me all day long and agree with me, but he thinks he's
> supposed to be a republican because the men in his family are a certain
> way. And once in that milieu he falls for the bullshit hook, line, and
> sinker. Not entirely, of course, because he comes to me to get a reality
> check on some stuff. But the fact is, he lives in a certain milieu, the
> conservatives have a loud voice, and it influences him, how he thinks, and
> how he acts in the world.
Somebody somewhere (not the lboster) observed that certain Republican voters don't actually support the sort of crazy that has has gone mainstream, they simply don't believe it's happening. Not that that dynamic is confined to them.