Discussing Politics with Parents

One of the worst things an informed or knowledgeable person can do with their free time is to argue with someone who isn't knowledgeable.  Right below that would be trying to teach someone who is misinformed and is obstinate on a subject.  But luckily for us, the likelihood of both of these terrible traits taking place in the same person is rare, if not impossible, right? Sadly, it is not.  In the process of learning about the American political system, I have come to clash with my parents.  I've known my parents were both conservatives for a long while, and have, up until this year, thought that their beliefs were well founded. But upon learning my political identity and sharing it with them, I've learned that, at best, my parents are greatly misinformed on the subject.  I don't mean this as a sort of attack on their beliefs being in opposition of mine, but rather I mean to highlight the fact that my parents, who are themselves average American citizens, are simply misinformed in basic factual information.  After discovering this, I've asked many mature, voting adults their opinions on politics, as well as simple questions as to what they know.  What I've found is that most of the adults around me, those who have been preaching the gospel of whatever they believe to me at family meetings for nearly two decades, have absolutely no clue what they are talking about. Coming to this conclusion, I then set out to try and figure out the root of the problem.  There were many options to tackle, including American education, modern media, and the breakdown of compromise at the legal level of politics.  With a good portion of my rough polling group being conservative, I've found the thing held most in common between them is that they all watch FOX News.  So, over the past few months, I have put myself through the living hell that is actively paying attention to FOX's major political talk shows.  From what I've gathered from them, I'm led to believe that this epidemic in our voter base is founded in biased and outright fraudulent reporting. I've also learned that I'm not alone in my thoughts.  Websites such as Politifact and FactCheck have set out to take statements made by politicians, analysts, and the likes, and rate the accuracy of their statements on different scales.  But is this a solution? Hardly.  I can't honestly say I have one in mind, but I suppose the first step to fixing the problem is simply acknowledging there is one.  Now only if I could convince my mother...