My mother called me a socialist

she was really mad at me for voting for Kerry. She listens to a lot of talk radio while doing housework and making dinner. I don't bring politics up because it's so pointless - we'll never agree, and the thing is, I don't really care that we don't agree. But I really worry that she getting a little senile because it seems like one comment isn't logically connected to the next, and she goes off on all of these tangents. It's like arguing with a crazy person. I don't know what I was thinking calling two days before the election.

She's changed a lot over the years. She's become really self-centered and stubborn and insensitive and almost beligerent at times. I kind of feel like the person I used to know as my mom is partly dead already.