From Marxist to Free Marketeer

Excerpt from Libertarian Republican



NEW PARTY SWITCHER

Government retards, rather than Empowers the Individual

by Dave Salyers, California

I just sent in my voter registration to switch my party affiliation to GOP. This was quite a political journey for me. When I was in college, I considered myself a leftist radical - I studied anthropology and had Marxist professors and learned Marxist class analysis. When I got to the real world and found it difficult to make a living with a MA in that (didn't go on for the PhD), I had to go back to graduate school and get a second Master's degree in social work. (I work in the field of child welfare investigating child abuse and neglect.)

Now social work is an interesting job. For folks like me who have been around for a few years, it has a nasty eye-opening habit which causes a shift in political consciousness.....

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3 comments:

  1. LCR,

    Hope it was a fruitful journey for you. It's a pleasure reading your stuff. Truth be told that it is always great hearing from folks who have come over form the Dark Side. I have been conservative pretty much all my life so I did not have the experience of conversion you all had.

    But folks like you and David Horowitz always bring special insight to the debate.
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  2. Thanks Tim! This is an important article. We need more of these types of switchers.
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  3. @ - Boncka - It has been a fruitful journey for me but one that has made me go from conservative to even more so! :).

    @ Eric - No problem, we surely do!
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