My mother thinks she is the spawn of Joseph Kennedy via her Irish heritage (which is a lie, not a drop of Irish in her).  There may come a time when she needs a lobotomy and then maybe she can claim some street cred as a Kennedy.  She gets tingles up her leg while watching Chris Matthews spittle all over himself, too.  

My brother is one of those elitist, do good democrats.  Volunteers at the VA and senior center and never lets you forget it, date night once a week, writes the yearly "look at what I have done all year" Christmas letter, yada yada yada.  Now retired, he volunteers his expertise in helping organizations get federal grants - ya know spending other people's money grants on useless sh!t.

We cannot engage in any conversation regarding politics.  They hate anything conservative, Ronald Reagan was the devil himself, and Boooosh/Cheny were worse than the devil because they took us to war for oil so they could get RICH and not pay any taxes.  I don't/won't/can't even try to talk politics because they are so entrenched in their thinking and refuse to see another point of view and with their hatred of anything conservative it is impossible to have a civil debate.