How do you confront people who are just plain stupid about politics?

A couple buddies of mine have a mom who is very conservative, and very vocal about it on facebook. In days past I just ignored her stuff, or with other people I blocked their updates from my feed. Not sure why I haven’t done that with her yet, but anyways…

Lately she’s been posting a lot of pretty incendiary anti-Obama pictures and posts on facebook, which of course I am too weak willed to just ignore. But the problem isn’t so much a difference of opinion, as it is that she just blatantly believes lies and fervently uses them.

For example, today she made a post. Among the things in it, she first claimed that Obamacare raided Medicare for 742 billion dollars. Now I know this was money saved, not money pulled out of the program itself, but at least this is an argument I could see someone confusing (heck that’s what the Republicans were hoping for when they came up with that lie).. Where it starts to get crazy is how she worded it… “Obama pulled 742 billion dollars out of medicare already to pay for his socialist Obamacare!” Maybe it’s just me, but wouldn’t Medicare, basically the epitome of socialized healthcare just for old people, be more socialist than a program that expanded the heck out of private insurance companies?

Or she said that it was a lie that Dems came up with saying Ryan wanted to dissolve medicare. What else would she call privatizing it?

Or she said that Romney wants to bring medicare back into solvency, apparently not knowing that until he comes up with his own plan all he’s proposed is repealing Obamacare, which would actually make medicare insolvent much sooner.

My favorite part was this… She went on to rant about how we should bring home the troops and use the billions of dollars we’re wasting in overseas wars (an admittedly not-conservative standpoint).. and invest it “in Education, building roads and parks, new technologies, etc..” .... This being the same lady who barely two days ago went on a rant about what a waste the stimulus package was!!

How do you deal with people who are this incredibly stupid or blind to facts?