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To: Steely Tom

That is great to hear. Do you know if she was into liberalism before taking this conservative turn, or was she neutral? Just wondering if this was a conversion or a first awakening, so to speak. David Horowitz is one of my favorite conversion stories, btw.


41 posted on 05/28/2019 10:12:40 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
She was too young to be into either conservatism or liberalism. Last thing I knew she was "in to" was K-Pop, which she is still huge on.

Her older sister was (I thought) tending toward conservatism before she spent four years at an (ivy league) college. Now she's a liberal, although not what I would call a far-leftist.

The younger sister, like my daughter, has been exposed to the liberal "full monty" since an early age. One of the close friends in their circle "came out" as a boy a few years back; her trajectory has been very sad, as you might expect. Everyone in my daughter's friend group is well aware of that situation.

Her older sister grew up in the 1990s, and so wasn't as internet-saturated as the typical suburban millennial.

Here's another thing. I asked her "so how many of your friends at (insert name of high school here) are conservative" and she said "two." I said "what percentage of your total friends is that?" and she said "all."

Then I said "well, how many kids at (insert high school name) are conservative?" and she said "not that many."

I said "well, give me a percentage? Two percent? Five percent"?

She looked a little puzzled, and said "about half."

57 posted on 05/28/2019 10:24:44 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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