Sigh, again.

Mom, watching TV: He's going to bring about a socialist state.
A.: Where are you getting this?
Dad: He has lofty ideals, but doesn't understand the way things work.
A.: For example?
Dad: You don't know the history of Europe in the twentieth century?
A.: I don't?
Dad: You may know the events, but you didn't live it.
A.: And?
Dad: Liberal ideas brought about some of the cruelest dictators of the century.
A.: Cruel dictators were produced left and right.
Dad: You don't get it.
A.: Franco, Pinochet, Papa Doc... those were all leftists?
Dad: That's not what I'm saying.
A.: I am trying to understand what you ARE saying. What does any of this have to do with Barack Obama? What has he said, specifically, that makes you think that, for example, he's a socialist?
Dad: I can't anwer that.
Mom, ranting in the other room: All he has to do is say "change," and young people who don't know any better vote for him.