Robin is a psychotherapist in Berkeley, California who is a converted leftist. In this piece she describes the suddenness of her awakening:
There are moments when life crashes down on you like a thunderbolt. And ready or not, you change.
There's a before and an after. One moment, you're one way. And then, in the blink of an eye, you're different.
An instant before my parents died, I still felt like a child, though I was knee-deep in middle age. But when they passed, three weeks apart, suddenly I grew up...just like that.
While that experience was seismic, it doesn't compare to my sea change upon Obama's ascension. One minute I was a leftist, despising this country and all it stood for.
And then, abruptly and astonishingly, I became a conservative.
Read the rest at the link.
RLC