Ann Davis wrote:
> So how many people have made that journey, from right to left?
> 

I did as well. In fact both me and Doug get cameo roles in Rick 
Pearlstein's book on the conservative movement. Me and my cousin Louis 
Reynolds Proyect (I was Louis Nelson) were members of the YAF in 1960. I 
hated everybody in my high school and when they backed JFK, I backed 
Goldwater over Nixon. For me it was a little like Charles Bukowski 
telling his classmates that he liked Hitler in the late 1930s. That 
being said, I thought that William F. Buckley was exceedingly clever and 
drew conservative conclusions from "Brave New World". When I got to Bard 
College in 1961, peer pressure turned me into a liberal, with 
ideological affinities with Camus. In 1967 I became a Trotskyist after 
waking up to capitalist reality.
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