Dreading those confrontations with wingnut relativesduring the holiday season?  Here is some useful information on their deeply held and wholly incorrect beliefs about "liberals" that will help you maintain your sanity, courtest of Sara Robinson at Ourfuture.org:

As you prepare to head once again into the family fray, it might be useful to note that most of the right wing's favorite anti-liberal slanders are rooted in some deeply-held—and deeply wrong—assumptions about who liberals are, and what we believe. If your relatives, God bless 'em all, insist on going down that road, your best defense this year might be to listen closely for these underlying myths and fables at work—and be prepared to challenge them head-on when they surface in the discussion.

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