How many people here on DU were once rethugs/conservatives?

[Puzzledtraveller]

78. Communist idealist

from about 16, when I got my first job and had to join the union, had no idea what it was all about, or what it was for. I worked in a grocery store butcher shop and all I know is I came home every night with soggy boots for 3.18 an hour. Got fired for eating a deli sandwhich on the clock, at 16, union rep said there was nothing he could do, made me write a resignation statement and that was that. Went to the other grocery store less than a mile away, got hired, no union, was paid a little better and got a better position, produce night clerk! Over the course of many years, many jobs, military service, college, working for my dad, more college, more jobs I ditched the communism and found myself moving to the right, the center to both extreme right and extreme left. A workers world, utopian idealists, pipe dreams, human nature is the only reality.