Reply #21: I just looked at your profile [View All]

and see that you live in Flowery Branch! Last year I received one of those awful RW mass e-mails from my stepmother, so I hit "reply all" and debunked everything in it. A couple of days later I got a message from someone that said "Who are you? Do I know you?". Turned out she was one of the recipients of my debunking e-mail, and she also lives in Flowery Branch.

We subsequently had a flurry of e-mails back and forth. This woman was a Republican kool-aid drinker, not because she's a vicious partisan like the freepers, but because it's all she's ever known. She trusted FOX and her pastor and other people who told her lies because no one ever told her anything different and she was an unquestioning sort. What was remarkable was that she was prepared to read the things I sent her and digest the information. I don't know if I was able to persuade her to come into the light or if she will ever vote for a Democrat, but I do know I made her think for herself, and she thanked me for it.

I went to high school in Gwinnett County so I know first-hand what red areas Gwinnett and Hall Counties are (in fact, the entire NE section of GA, apart from Athens). Keep on fighting the good fight!