Why don't conservatives get it?

I was having dinner with friends and someone got to talking about the Obama college tuition plan. One person piped up that Obama is promising free college education for everyone and those that are paying tuition don't have to pay it back and that it removes any sense of personal responsibility. Nothing could be further from the truth, I told this person. No, Obama is telling these kids not to pay back their college tuition, this person said. Well, it was obvious that I was not going to convince this person that what Obama was presenting was a plan to lower the percentage of income that college students will have to pay back each month so that students are not strapped with having to pay hundreds of dollars per month. Maybe in doing that, it's going to mean that kids will take longer to pay off their loans and honestly, no college student should have to graduate from college with loans amouting to $25,000 to $50,000, the price of buying either a very upscale car or a modest house. But conservatives are convinced that Obama is the devil incarnate and that nothing he does is good for the country, not education, not infrastructure, not anything. They're convinced that he's a socialist and in all honesty, he's more of a pragmatic Democrat as opposed to anything truly radical. Well, I don't know what is so radical about wanting to put this country back to work again rebuilding roads and bridges, teaching our children to become tomorrow's leaders and making sure that our communities are safe. I don't get why people think that investing in higher education is radical. Statistics have borne out the fact that people who receive a higher education have better career opportunities and thus end up more affluent than those without a higher education. Likewise, children who grow up in a household of college educated parents start out with an educational head start compared to students who don't. That's not radical, that's facts. But some people have their mind made up that Obama is bent on a radical takeover of our country and wants to overturn everything we know and love. Utter BS. What's truly galling is to hear educated people speaking like this, people who should know better. Well, they just don't get it. Never will, either. No amount of debate will change these folks minds. I know. I've tried. It's useless, frustrating and enough to drive a person to tears. There comes a point where you just have to accept that they have their view, however skewed, and there's no changing it no matter how many facts you present to back up your argument.