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heckles65

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5. I can say I am such a person.

Reply to TexasProgresive (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2018, 10:28 AM

Feb 2018

I voted for Reagan in 1980 and was semi-enthusiastic for the guy. I had the 'everybody can be like me' baggage of the white suburbanite. There was hardly one big event that flipped me. I still think of myself as conservative at heart - heck, I even listen to 1940's music on Sirius.

I can say I've got a much darker view of humanity nowadays; which is why I am particularly disdainful of the anti-abortion movement.

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I just read an amazing post on quora.com to: "Do conservatives ever become liberal?" [View all] TexasProgresive Feb 2018 OP

This is my story, too cyclonefence Feb 2018 #1

I think there are a small percentage of conservatives (and gun-obsessed, for that matter) who may be hlthe2b Feb 2018 #2

its possible but rare from observations on politics over the last 5 decades. beachbum bob Feb 2018 #3

My hubby Happyhippychick Feb 2018 #4

I can say I am such a person. heckles65 Feb 2018 #5

anti-choice, not anti-abortion Skittles Feb 2018 #9

Thanks for sharing this story. Nitram Feb 2018 #6

This is especially good: raccoon Feb 2018 #7

I was a real, rah-rah Ronald Reagan fan in high school. Aristus Feb 2018 #8