Sky, I wish you could understand what Grithnir is really saying. Some extreme conservatives such as his father can be very emotionally and mentally abusive. In my experience, it is either you believe what they believe or you are evil. His father's physical abuse may have even been brought on or intensified by his father's beliefs, since who he is as person is evil in the eyes of most extreme conservatives. So I believe what Grithnir has said is totally relevant in his post.

Anyway, I most agree with you Grithnir, conservative talk tv and radio is quite dramatic and crazy. They tend to be very judgmental of other groups that are not their own. They tend to be quite narcissistic. What I mean is they see so much "dirt" on others, yet they they can't see that this is actually a spec of dirt in their own eyes. For example, I remember years ago Bill O'Reily was saying terrible things about Ludacris and his music. He was saying that it is so disrespectful to women. Then come to find out Mr. O'Reily himself was sexually harassing one of his female co-workers. These people on these conservative talk shows pick apart everything that is wrong in others, and many of their statements are quite fallacious. They also believe that they are best and their way of thinking is the only way. Whoever that doesn't believe the way they think, shame on them, they are lower life forms. This does not hold true for all conservatives of course, but this is the way these talk shows are as I have seen.

My father and his parents are extremely conservative like this also. They are so "religiously" conservative that they believe President Obama is an illegal alien and the anti-christ. If I ever tried to speak up for what I believe in I was put down, cursed out, or beaten. I believe this "political abuse" is almost, if not the same as religious abuse. I'm not sure if I found the right term, what I mean by religious abuse, is when people are so extremely "religious", they follow their religious texts word for word, and then they force it on their children to do exactly the same as a kind of brain washing and mind control. They may not always succeed in this way, but they do try.