Reply #22: Hi Jackpine. In a nutshell

[Yael]

My Dad was kicked out of Hospice shortly before he died of cancer because of a "glitch" in how his insurance policy was written. As a staunch corporate supporter (and free marketer) at the time, I figured all I needed to do was talk with them and we would get this straightened out. After all, it wasn't like dealing with the government, right?

It took threatening to go to the media to get it straightened out.

That was when I put the koolaid down and started paying attention. Suffice to say, I didn't like what I saw.

I realized that my years of academia teaching me all about the merits of supply-side economics were all backwards, the corporations I loved (our of fear of the government) would have us all making $0.05 a hour and sleeping in the fields if they had their druthers, and that the war that I tepidly supported for WMD was all a lie designed to siphon off the treasury into the pockets of the crony capitalists.

It was then that I felt vomit rising into my throat and my outlook changed.

Never even looked to center. I went from right-of-right to left-of-left and I will not look back.

John Edwards speaks to me and for me, and I will venture to say also to those like me who are waking up to the same cold reality.

It is time for change.