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Aristus

(66,307 posts) Fri Oct 10, 2014, 05:40 PM Oct 2014

A young guy I know from church has, in the last year, changed his Facebook status from 'Republican'

to 'Progressive Democrat'.

Yay!

I attend Mrs. Aristus' conservative Four-Square church because there's no way she'd ever attend a liberal church. The guy in question is a very smart, personable young man. I guess he self-ID'd as Republican out of reflex, growing up in a conservative evangelical household.

Well, he got a job in Japan teaching English to young Japanese students. Seeing the way the rest of the world works must have done a number on his head, because now he's a Democrat!