If you're among the many who are still reeling from Tuesday's election results, still wondering how candidate Donald Trump became president-elect Trump, Amanda Lockwood, Herman Cain and their spouses might hold the answer.
Lockwood is an elementary school teacher who believes, like her parents, that it’s better to blaze your own trail and eschew labels of any kind.
Her husband, David, is like-minded. That isn’t to say that neither of them has strong opinions or never takes sides. They do.
The difference, perhaps, between the Lockwoods and the rest of society is they don’t allow labels, religious or otherwise, to define them, to put them in a box as a married couple or as individuals.
Amanda Lockwood, for instance, grew up in a liberal, Jewish family who had a Christmas tree every year and enjoyed hunting for Easter eggs. And while the Decatur woman votes mostly Democratic, she considers herself more progressive than anything. David, 51, doesn’t ascribe to any one party, preferring people over party.
Political conservative and Baptist minister Herman Cain and his wife, Gloria, both believe party labels, in particular, divide us. The only label the McDonough couple, both 70, are completely comfortable with, they said, is Christian.
Their experience along with the Lockwoods’, experts say, is further proof that the vast majority of us are conflicted about political and social issues and those who say they are conservative are the most conflicted of all.
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