our parents, having parasocial relationships with msnbc stars, could not hear us. my stepsister, older and wiser, chose to avoid discussing it. but I had ugly arguments with them. I couldn’t believe that my single mom had raised me barely above the poverty level, working as she did in social services as Clinton attacked the poor, took me to a rural jesse jackson rally as a child, but then fell under hillary clinton’s spell so deeply that we couldn’t even discuss the polls realistically