Very moving story. I don't think most people convert so quickly. This woman has great intellectual honesty to re-examine her views so intently. We need to get her over here on FR. It does seem like maybe a quarter to a third of Freepers are converts from the left. If you took the number who are either converts or grew up in Rat households, I'll bet over half would fall into that category.
Convert standing up to be counted Bump! FR is directly responsible for my awakening, as my screen name attests.
"It does seem like maybe a quarter to a third of Freepers are converts from the left. "
I started out as a Stanford socialist going to Black Panther meetings, and look at me now! Fortunately, I came around by the late 70's, the leftist stuff simply didn't work. In fact, it crumbled if you looked at it crosseyed.