Naw. I've known her for decades. She's never been liberal. She's a good Christian, living in small community outside of Austin (which is pretty liberal, but she's not part of Austin, except for the Cons).

She has a narrative now, of her life that appears as though it might be leftist or liberal but is the excuse for being a hard ass. My mother suffered as single mother, I've suffered with this that and the other because my mother was a single mother, I went into the military (but not combat or anything remotely resembling the experiences and career of Ginmar, for instance), married a doctor, and am active in my church and community and care for my serverely challenged son. You see how much of this is admirable. But it didn't make her liberal or even urbane. She's not living in a generally diverse or tolerant community -- the community where she's lived for decades.

This is admirable way of life in many ways. But, for too many, it hardens one's arteries for change -- particularly when you've joined the pantheon of SF GREATHOOD which means you're never challenged. But this is something else that seems to have changed in the last decade.

Love, C.