My transformation was not nearly as dramatic as yours. I am not ashamed to say I voted NDP (soc-dems?) a few time. It was mainly thanks to Pierre Burton's books. "The National Dream", "The Last Spike" and "Vimy" made me proud to be a Canadian. I don't know where I got the impression he was an NDPer of a New Democrat. Wikipedia makes no mention of it. But then I read "Atlas Shrugged" and saw the light.
Amazing history and your personal story. Of course, you were 15, the most impressionable age for teens, and your camp was designed to recruit you to the Communist cause. People can be nice; but people's philosophies can be very WRONG-hate-to-death of other groups is not a 'civilization loving' philosophy which never ends well. If only history was taught...
Growing up in the USA (before it became Amerika due to Marxist takeover of all institutions) to conservative, non politically educated/involved parents, I felt the best way to govern was "just don't hurt/bother other people" and "keep to yourself and take care of you and yours". Only recently (and especially after 2016) have I seen that following those philosophies allowed the Marxists run wild to the point where it may be too late to turn back and save the Constitutional Republic America once was. There are people getting involved at the local level which will help change the local direction; however it seems the 2024 election will be either the returning-to-Republic pivot, the start of a revolution (because the election is 'lost' and patriots are fed up) or just the fall of America.
What amazes me the most is to see how it is ALWAYS the same cosmic battle between good and evil, freedom and slavery, centralized vs distributed decision making
My transformation was not nearly as dramatic as yours. I am not ashamed to say I voted NDP (soc-dems?) a few time. It was mainly thanks to Pierre Burton's books. "The National Dream", "The Last Spike" and "Vimy" made me proud to be a Canadian. I don't know where I got the impression he was an NDPer of a New Democrat. Wikipedia makes no mention of it. But then I read "Atlas Shrugged" and saw the light.
Mine was not that dramatic either, it is the compressing of the story into just a little over 1,000 words that makes it sound dramatic.
... and all the historic markers around it, I guess
Amazing history and your personal story. Of course, you were 15, the most impressionable age for teens, and your camp was designed to recruit you to the Communist cause. People can be nice; but people's philosophies can be very WRONG-hate-to-death of other groups is not a 'civilization loving' philosophy which never ends well. If only history was taught...
Growing up in the USA (before it became Amerika due to Marxist takeover of all institutions) to conservative, non politically educated/involved parents, I felt the best way to govern was "just don't hurt/bother other people" and "keep to yourself and take care of you and yours". Only recently (and especially after 2016) have I seen that following those philosophies allowed the Marxists run wild to the point where it may be too late to turn back and save the Constitutional Republic America once was. There are people getting involved at the local level which will help change the local direction; however it seems the 2024 election will be either the returning-to-Republic pivot, the start of a revolution (because the election is 'lost' and patriots are fed up) or just the fall of America.
What amazes me the most is to see how it is ALWAYS the same cosmic battle between good and evil, freedom and slavery, centralized vs distributed decision making