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I Was a Teenage Conservative
Barry Goldwater was my first political hero. The most antiauthoritarian figure in mainstream American politics, who said what he thought without giving a damn, he looked and sounded as Western as Arizona, the state he represented in the Senate. Goldwater and John Kennedy hatched plans in the White House—for what they assumed would be their upcoming presidential campaign against each other in 1964—to travel the country in the Arizonan's small plane that he flew himself, stopping off at airports in the middle of nowhere to debate one issue or another before taking off again. This two-fisted, free-flying persona made Goldwater the kind of politician that film director Howard Hawks might have come up with; by comparison, government couldn't help appearing soullessly oppressive. Great Society liberalism had become the norm by the mid-1960s, and this reinforced Goldwater's iconoclasm, striking a politically attuned, insistently nonconformist teenager as utopian, in the same way that Kennedy embodied idealism for so many others of my generation.
Utopia was in the air where I grew up, though I wouldn't have identified it as that any more than I could have told you who Howard Hawks was. L.A.'s San Fernando Valley was the no man's land between rural and suburban, between Wild West and space-age futurism. Ranches sprawled on the other side of the biggest road that ran near my house; three miles away, in the same part of the Valley that would become the porn capital of the world a couple of decades later, were makeshift frontier towns built for Westerns by the Hollywood studios. Overhead, the purple vapor trails of rocket tests streaked the skies. Kennedy's race to the moon built the modern Valley; every father of every kid I knew worked, as did my own dad, for the bursting aerospace industry—-Lockheed, Hughes, North American, Rockwell. The progress that cut swaths through the Valley brought a disruption matched only by earthquakes. A new freeway (which eventually would be named after President Ronald Reagan) took our house, leaving just the swimming pool that was proof of my parents' upward mobility; the pool was given to the next-door neighbor whose house fell outside the freeway's path. This sort of upheaval was too common to be traumatizing.
My mother loved Goldwater, too. She took me to a Goldwater rally at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and on the morning of the '64 election, I recall her peering through my bedroom door, gently trying to prepare her sensitive teenage son for the likelihood that our man Barry probably wasn't going to make it that day. An outspoken liberal in her youth, she was the more ideological of my parents, both of whom grew up Franklin Roosevelt Democrats. In the election of 1948, she missed being old enough to vote by 11 days; my father voted for Harry Truman. Though he remained a Democrat in name, he never voted Democratic again. In the next election, both my parents cast their ballots for the Republican nominee, Dwight Eisenhower, after which began the rightward political trajectory of so many New Deal children, which would accelerate in response to the tumult of the '60s. In my father's case, this evolution accompanied the economic ascension that went with swimming pools built and forsaken, while my mother shared with many Americans an alarm that Soviet communism was winning the Cold War, sabotaging democracy and free enterprise. My fascination with politics derived from an interest in the drama of American history; by the time I was 12, I was writing stories about Abraham Lincoln and Nathan Hale (an enthusiasm for patriots making the ultimate sacrifice may be discerned here). I could recite the Gettysburg Address and name all the presidents of the United States in order and the opponents they defeated. Enthralled by Thomas Jefferson's maxim that "government is best which governs least" (lately there's some question whether he said this), I believed that the Bill of Rights is the greatest political document ever written, and I still believe it today, even as I take greater note over the years that it was written less as an addendum to the Constitution than as a rebuttal, by the Constitution's greatest skeptic, its so-called father, James Madison.
Since the liberalism of the time was as smug as the conservatism of the future would be sanctimonious, I was secretly pleased when a history teacher in high school called my opinions "dangerous." What teenager doesn't want to be dangerous, especially when he's so undangerous in so many other ways? The conservatism I embraced was a whole greater than the sum of the parts, the emphasis on individual freedom trumping stuff that I considered to be fine print. While I never liked the sound of a welfare state, I was enough of a softy to have balked at denying help to people who needed it; to the extent that I understood it, the idea that arose from the Great Crash of 1929—that there should be a division between commercial banks and investment banks, without which the great crash of 2008 later became possible—sounded perfectly sensible and, if anything, like a conservative idea. I didn't really know what the Tennessee Valley Authority was or what it meant that Goldwater mused openly about selling it off. Goldwater mused openly about a lot of things that I took with a nuclear silo worth of salt. When he made jokes about lobbing missiles into the men's room in the Kremlin, I thought it was funny, something that now mortifies me; I was too immature to understand that a presidential campaign might be better off with a little less humor out of Dr. Strangelove, that election year's most talked-about film. I never believed that Goldwater was going to start a war, as suggested by an infamous Democratic television ad of a small girl plucking a daisy while counting down to Armageddon, because I didn't think he was crazy. I had more faith in his prudence than he gave anyone reason to have.
While my hero worship remained unabated, I was troubled that summer of '64. Liberals recoiled when Goldwater declared at the Republican Convention in San Francisco that "extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice," but I understood the statement on its face; Tom Paine and Patrick Henry, not to mention Jefferson, said the same thing, more or less. If I was barely savvy enough, however, to comprehend Goldwater's provocation, the mob fury that gripped the convention was harder to ignore. Rendered in images all the more unseemly by the crude black and white of television, the delegates cascaded verbal abuse at Goldwater's defeated rival for the nomination, New York's moderate governor, Nelson Rockefeller. More instinctually than I could articulate, I had the feeling maybe these were people I wouldn't want to be in the same room with. No ideology holds the patent on rage, and in the years to come, scenes as ugly were played out by the political left. But though I was still too young to fathom what was meant by the better angels of our nature, I did experience my first sense of political alienation, and it was from those who I thought were on my side.
Meanwhile, a month before the convention, on the momentum of Kennedy's martyrdom, the Senate passed the Civil Rights Act. This was the single most momentous piece of legislation since the same institution approved the 13th Amendment ending slavery a century before. Twenty-nine senators voted against the law; Goldwater was one of them. Following World War II, Goldwater had desegregated the Arizona National Guard that he founded and was a forceful proponent for integrating the nation's military forces as well. In the Senate he had supported every previous civil-rights bill, including the '64 bill in an earlier, less expansive form. I understood the constitutional rationale behind Goldwater's vote, which was that the government shouldn't have the power to dictate the conduct of a private business. Even at the age of 14, however, I had the unambiguous impression of some bigger picture being missed. While I didn't question Goldwater's motives, the motives on the convention floor that summer were transparent: There was little doubt that much of Goldwater's support was racist and that much of what was being expressed on the floor was white wrath. I'm keenly cognizant of how self-serving it is to overstate this now. I was a naïve white kid with half a century between then and this article to cover my tracks. So let's say that the rightness of the cause of racial justice was too manifest, too bright a line for one not to finally choose a side. In contrast with black people being hosed down on TV and beset by vicious dogs and vicious sticks swung by vicious cops, rhetoric about states' rights sounded hollow.
Politics is always personal. It would be disingenuous to suggest that the changes I was going through, especially at the ages of 18 and 19, were entirely philosophical. Suffice it to say that when I glanced back over my shoulder at my first 17 years, I didn't much like what I saw—someone rigid and judgmental, with politics to match. None of this examination took place inside the hermetic seal of my own thinking and feeling; a cultural explosion rocked the decade around me. The facts of the civil-rights movement became as inexorable to me as worries about democracy and totalitarianism. The national dilemma of race, and that dilemma's resolution, became crucial to my evolving patriotism; not having had a single acquaintance before college who was African American, now I was living with African Americans in the college dormitory. Jeffersonian individualism remained my ideal, but there were more and more examples of how sometimes only the dreaded federal government had the power to protect the freedom of the individual from states and localities. Over and over, the notion that government necessarily becomes more responsive and better suited to protecting liberty the farther down the line from federalism it gets was proved irrefutably false.
By the end of the '60s, it was clear that the conservatism I so ardently adopted was wrong about the two great issues of the day, civil rights being the first. The other was a war in Southeast Asia that no military or political figure was capable of explaining, a war for which every guy I knew was fodder. One night in 1969, three weeks before Christmas, a great raffle was held in Washington, D.C., in which my fate was drawn from a glass jar. All men of draft age received a number that would determine how soon, if ever, they would be called up for service and combat. Mine was 345, a very good number as numbers went in a situation that nonetheless underscored the absurdity of the lottery and the war itself. The proposition of bolstering an inept and crooked Indochinese country for the sake of American national security was one that few in the country accepted any longer, and when four students were murdered by the National Guard on a campus in Ohio the following spring during a demonstration against the war, what died as well was the last semblance of support for the war and an ideology that justified it. To a Jeffersonian, the brandishing of state power in order to conscript people to fight in a faithless conflagration and then to oppress the right of assembly stipulated by the First Amendment was repellent.
The 1960s were a Rorschach decade. No interpretation of the era's inkblot is altogether wrong. Conservatism and liberalism were realigned in the process, creeds reassessed; liberal Democrats first escalated the Vietnam War, while some conservatives suggested that if this was an endeavor we couldn't win, we should withdraw. But while the likes of Goldwater raised ever more blunt questions about the war and the draft, the vast majority of self-identified conservatives supported the state. Up to a point, this was an understandable response to what many ordinary Americans perceived as growing turmoil; faced with chaos, people like my parents had different ideas than I of what was to be conserved. None of this, however, changed the fact that in its deceit about the war's unfolding and what was and wasn't at stake, the state itself bore accountability for much of this chaos, and in the conflict between freedom and order, while the Jeffersonian conservatism that I signed up for gave the benefit of the doubt to freedom, a new conservatism now chose order. This state-imposed order was manifested by duplicity in the form of government misinformation and intimidation and surveillance, as well as by an implicit lack of faith in America itself—in an American's right to know, in the American fabric's ability to weather such fraying of and even rips in the national life. "If it takes a bloodbath," Reagan said upon quelling a demonstration at the University of California, Berkeley, during his first term as California's governor, "let's get it over with," a battle cry that not long before would have confirmed everything about the state that conservatives feared.
Ronald Reagan was the conservative Jesus for whom Goldwater proved to be only John the Baptist. Reagan came to the attention of conservatives when he made a speech for Goldwater a week before the '64 election, advancing the case for Goldwater's candidacy more powerfully than Goldwater had. Over the next 16 years, Reagan became the personification of a hybrid conservatism forged by times that tested everything. This fusion crossed an eloquence on behalf of liberty with a new trust in the power of the state; deserting the ideal of individual freedom, now conservatives automatically registered protest against the war and on behalf of civil rights as leftist insurrection. While Reagan's election as president in 1980 appeared to be the apotheosis of what Goldwater started, in fact conservatism and the new president each were remaking themselves in the image of the other. Under Reagan the national debt and size of the federal government exploded; the Justice Department paid a purposely ominous attention to what adults read and watched; the war on drugs grew more ruthless; cynicism about science, particularly as it had to do with the environment, grew more pronounced; antagonism to the freedom of women to make choices about their bodies grew more vehement.
Most striking, three impulses distinguished the new right. The first was how the right's enmity toward centralized state power was matched by an adoration of centralized corporate power. This constituted an abandonment of the principle of a truly free marketplace—with entrepreneurship and the flourishing of small business becoming more constrained and difficult—-
and the overarching principle of decentralization. The second impulse was the displacement of liberty as conservatism's core priority by a new priority, "values," by which the right invariably meant sexual behavior, predominantly the sexual behavior of women and homosexuals. The third new impulse was most profound. This was a reconceptualization of the republic as one in which citizens are bound not by a Constitution in which God isn't once mentioned, euphemized, or alluded to but by an unwritten Christian covenant that implicitly subjects free will to an organizing ethos that's unmistakably theocratic. What was a freedom movement became an authority/wealth/religious movement. The new conservatism now spoke of the Bill of Rights with thinly veiled contempt. Conservatism continued to pay lip service to freedom in the abstract even as the only freedoms in the specific that it defended with urgency were the right to make a profit and to own a gun. If the language of conservatism, as given voice by President Reagan, hadn't changed, its very essence had transformed, within two decades of Goldwater's defeated run for the presidency.
In college I had doubts about everything, and then doubts about the doubts. I didn't become a leftist: I wouldn't have contemplated for two seconds putting a poster of Mao on my wall any more than I would have put up one of Hitler, and I found a lot of the revolutionary sentiments in pop music that I otherwise loved simplistic or silly. Calling the United States "fascist" was outrageous and reckless, a neutering of the word's power by its careless use. I believed the testimony of history was that a managed capitalism made more people free and happy than did communism.
Some of the left-wing ideologues I knew reminded me of the right-wing ideologues I knew, including the one I had known best: me. The extent to which ideology hijacks independent thought, refracting an issue through the lens of an already-settled bias, was all the more disturbing for how long it took me to see it. Ideology is pathological: It provides a psychological structure posing as a theoretical one. This is why fervent communist intellectuals of the 1930s could become fervent anti-communist intellectuals of the 1950s—they didn't change at all. They became anti-communist communists. In our own day, Keith Olbermann is a left-wing version of Glenn Beck and vice versa; you can switch their soundtracks and notice no difference in body nuance or facial expression or voice inflection, because the inner emotional wiring is the same. The harder a line that ideology hews, the more that right and left have in common, sharing a penchant for rewriting the past to vindicate whatever version of the present each prefers to trust. Stalinists flatly deny that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 ever happened, in the same way that leaders of the contemporary right recast American history in terms of a mind-set that regards information as an elite conspiracy, science as a plot against God, and the earth as a subversive entity.
Where this story leaves me at the end isn't really important, but since it began as my story, I should finish it. I'm keenly aware that my present identity as a political nomad may be no less about my ego than knee-jerk obstinacy was in my adolescence, that perhaps I repeat the pattern of my youth in reflexively staking out the vantage point of a contrarian. My politics were right when the country was left, and then moved left as the country moved right. The most flattering conclusion is that my previous life as a teenage right-winger inoculates me to ideology altogether. Consistency isn't always the hobgoblin of a small mind: Every amendment in the Bill of Rights can't be interpreted so broadly as to extrapolate from the fourth not simply a right to privacy but to an abortion, while at the same time the Second Amendment is strictly construed as being about a militia rather than the larger freedom of the citizenry not to be disarmed by the state. In turn, the Second Amendment can't be interpreted broadly, ignoring the actual language, while the other nine are interpreted narrowly. At a social gathering following 9/11, I was dismayed that friends to the left of me condemned what I considered George W. Bush's legitimate military action in Afghanistan, given the complicity of the Taliban in its alliance with al-Qaeda; the war against Iraq, on the other hand (having nothing to do with al-Qaeda or 9/11 or phantom weapons), made me angrier than anything that any American government has done.
I have my own kids now. Despite gratifying evidence that my 15-year-old son knows who the Koch brothers are, the allure of memorizing all the presidents in order escapes him. My seven-year-old, on the other hand, was reported by neighbors to be heard railing at her playmates, "And don't even get me started on Paul Ryan!" I honestly believe my children are best served by a free politics that needs two wings to stay airborne and a push-me/pull-you tension between what is a right and what is a privilege, what is entitled and what is not, what reasonably progresses and what responsibly conserves. As recently as five years ago, I voted for a Republican for statewide office, and 12 years ago in the California primary, I voted for a Republican for president. I'm sorry to say that I don't foresee doing it again. While the man in the middle clings to the vanity of fair-mindedness, contending that both sides are equally right and wrong, perfectly balanced by perspectives that are equally valid and flawed, conservatism has too irrevocably exhausted not just its philosophical credibility but any moral mandate. Run amok, the authoritarian, corporate, and theocratic impulses that were troubling a quarter-century ago have become appalling and indisputable.
Caught between know-nothingism and a faux populism that disguises a predisposition to favor the financially powerful against the disenfranchised, the new right is born of that awful howl that rose from the convention floor in San Francisco and so startled me. This is the ferocity that animates the right's most prominent spokesmen in politics and electronic discourse. Some will argue it's gratuitous to characterize a movement in terms of its gratuitousness—debate audiences cheering executions and booing gay soldiers in Iraq. I don't think so anymore. At its most unforgiving, the incontrovertible id of today's conservatism insists that an American president is not really an American and not really the president and tries to reject not solely his ideas but also the very fact of him. Over the past four years, the right, exuding bad faith at best and collective psychosis at worst, has intended not merely to end a presidency but to discredit its existence. Even before conservatism betrayed itself so conspicuously I'm not sure my right-wing teenage self thought conservatism was about shipping 12 million Latinos out of the country or supposing that people stupid enough to get sick when they can't afford it should die. Pressed on the point, I should like to think that I would have allowed that being a country involves the sustenance of a social contract and the recognition that we're more than 300 million free agents who happen to be roaming the same piece of real estate.
As for Barry Goldwater, before his death he became an exile from the movement that once was his. Following his presidential run, he continued to strike positions in accordance with a Jeffersonian big-individual/-small-government code. He called for an end to the draft. He became an ardent environmentalist. He supported the Voting Rights Act. He promoted legalization of marijuana. He championed gay rights. He espoused abortion rights. He engineered President Richard Nixon's resignation for having used the levers of power to harass innocent Americans. He advocated (well, mused openly about, as was his wont) the nomination of black Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan for vice president in 1976. He lobbied for the Supreme Court's first female justice. He blasted Reagan for the 1987 Iran-Contra scandal ("the goddamned stupidest foreign-policy blunder this country's ever made"). He admonished George H.W. Bush for running a shallow campaign against Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis in 1988. He endorsed Democratic congressional candidates in the early '90s. He defended President Bill Clinton from trumped-up Republican charges of corruption. His denunciations of the religious right grew more bitter ("Do not associate my name with anything you do—you're extremists, and you've hurt the Republican Party much more than the Democrats have"), and his consternation grew at how the rest of the party became caught in the undertow: "A lot of so-called conservatives today don't know what the word means," he told the Chicago Tribune in 1994. When Republican nominee Robert Dole went to get Goldwater's benediction during the 1996 campaign, hoping to shore up his conservative credentials while the news cameras rolled, Goldwater could be seen and heard by millions telling Dole, somewhat wryly, "We're the new liberals of the party. Can you imagine that?"—not what Dole had in mind. By the time he died in 1998, Republicans had begun a whispering campaign that Goldwater suffered from dementia. Speaking for the Arizona delegation at the Democratic Convention this past summer, Goldwater's granddaughter cast her state's votes for Barack Obama.
Thu, 2012-12-06 15:19
This is a nicely written article and describes well all of the shortcomings of the contemporary conservative movement. However, there is also a violent radicalism of the left, which was evident in the anti-Vietnam riots of the 1960's and more recently in the Occupy Wall Street movement. As the writer himself points out, Keith Olbermann is the equivalent of Glen Beck. That being the case, rather than write off conservatism altogether, why not try to imagine what a sane, constructive conservatism would look like?
Thu, 2012-12-06 16:43
Glen Beck does not want an increasing share of your property ($). There is no comparison between the two men. The decision is between the Left, who want more of your property but will allow you to social en devour upon anything you wish, or the Right, who want less of your property, but also ask of you to stay within a certain social construct. I myself choose the latter as the lesser of two evils.
Sun, 2012-12-09 16:56
Re: Anti-Vietnam war riots
I grew up in that era. I was in ROTC at MIT from 1965-1969, then stayed for graduate school until early 1971, when I entered active duty. SOME riots were certainly gratuitous. However, as the author points out, this was an even more serious issue than most we face today, as young men were being drafted and sent to war, perhaps to die or come home damaged. Before the lottery, the rich could usually find a way out--college, graduate school, even a little word in the ear of the local draft board or an appointment to the National Guard. The poor and lower middle class, especially blacks, had no such escape routes. They were being sent to a war they didn't understand (who did?). As for Occupy Wall Street, where was the violence?
Thu, 2012-12-06 17:30
Fri, 2012-12-07 22:16
I am a grown women in my 61st year, and I don't find Mr. Ericksen's essay in the least confusing. Perhaps Conrad B is a right-wing idealogue, and as such, lacks the flexibility of mind to follow unfamiliar paths. As Mr. Ericksen writes, "Some of the left-wing ideologues I knew reminded me of the right-wing ideologues I knew, including the one I had known best: me. The extent to which ideology hijacks independent thought, refracting an issue through the lens of an already-settled bias, was all the more disturbing for how long it took me to see it. Ideology is pathological: It provides a psychological structure posing as a theoretical one."
Thu, 2012-12-06 19:46
Wow! I'm an outsider. a foreigner who watches the US closely and I've just subscribed to Prospect because of this article. I was impressed by the writing and by the description of changes in the view of the author, the carefully explained justifications for the opinions he held, then and now.
I'm also a bit stunned to find that only one of the four comments sees even vague merit in the article and two make no comment other than personal attacks. Have I stumbled upon a magazine read mostly by the right-wing idealogues? Four comments is a small sample, I admit but is there no longer any respect for the dissenting opinion within conservatives?
For what its worth, well done Mr Erikson. There's one far-away stranger who appreciated a fine piece of writing and a worthwhile, analysis of personal politics.
Fri, 2012-12-07 10:47
I've noticed that same trend of conservatives dominating the comments section of these articles. I think most progressives read an article like this, agree with it, but find no real need to state they agree with it. Conservatives don't agree with it and often feel the need to state they don't agree with it.
Sun, 2012-12-09 15:51
I'd second that assumption, Tobbar.
That said, I enjoyed this article so much that I felt compelled to comment about how great of a job the author had done detailing his views, and the evolution of American conservatism.
I think it's a fair and warm-hearted portrayal, although surely a critical one.
Fri, 2012-12-07 01:22
The first 1/3 of this article does a good job of reminding me why I am still a conservative. The middle is a muddle. Liberals always go wrong with the Vietnam War. It was LBJ - civil rights icon - who had 538,000 Americans on the ground there, not evil old Nixon. So it was not only 'conservatives who got that war wrong, Mr. Erickson, There was a Democrat President & a hell of a lot of Liberal & centrist Democrats in Congress dragging America deeper into that mess.
In the final part of his article, his criticism of the shift in emphasis from 'liberty' to 'values' by the GOP, is a fair critique. Unfortunately, the GOP made a devil's bargain with evangelicals.
But my ideals didn't change and neither did my logic. Expecting the Federal government to safeguard individual rights, is an extreme case of wishful thinking. It is akin to asking foxes on steroids to guard our hen houses. Neither the GOP nor the Dems give a flip about individual freedom. They differ in which of our rights they intend to suppress. That's all. Barry Goldwater wouldn't think too highly of Obama's drone-strike list, his meddling in religious employers' health insurance contracts or his surveillance society either.
And I doubt he would have supported Obamacare either. Mr. Erickson mentions the concentration of power in the hands of corporations under Reagan. Well, Obamacare took that a giant step farther. It was written by a Well-Point executive named Liz Fowler and guess what it did? It bailed out the failed business model of the private health insurance corporations by forcing tens of millions of Americans to purchase a private product.
Mr. Erickson, I was a teen-aged conservative. Today, I'm no longer a teen-ager. But I am a still a Barry Goldwater conservative.
Fri, 2012-12-07 10:42
Fri, 2012-12-07 19:46
Sun, 2012-12-09 15:48
Fri, 2012-12-07 22:19
Which type of Barry Goldwater Republican are you--the Goldwater who swam with the Republicans, or the Goldwater who was ostracized by them?
In any case, many life-long Democrats who are old enough to remember America before Reagan consider President Obama a moderate Republican.
Sat, 2012-12-08 03:30
I also thought that I was a "conservative" when I was a teenager. The name fooled me. But later, I realized that the current breed of conservatives exploited rather than conserved. They were authoritarians looking for worshipers. The wisdom in the simple statement that "you shall know them by their works" penetrated their hypocrisy and disguise for me. But the "left" was no better. Later, I found the "center" where I stood was born in the 16th century:
"Progressive Liberalism stands for a combination of securing individual freedom and government intervention in the management of social institutions and law-making for the good of everyone, regardless of their social or economic position. It is usually considered to be in opposition to the more right-wing, laissez-faire political ideology that seeks to limit government intervention in people's lives as much as possible, believing that market forces should be the determining factor in social development. As Jonathan Marshall wrote, progressive liberals are "not content to rely on the laws of God or the market place for social progress.""
Read more: Definition of Progressive Liberalism | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6591800_definition-progressive-liberalism.html#ixzz2ERldQHTu
"Market forces" is the right wing code word for rule by the wealthiest ones. Who can outbid a billionaire in the market with a minimum wage income?
Sat, 2012-12-08 16:25
"Overhead, the purple vapor trails of rocket tests streaked the skies. "
Probably not. "Rockets" weren't tested anywhere near the San Fernando Valley. They were and are tested either over the ocean or in desolate areas like White Sands, New Mexico, simply for safety. They are NOT launched over populated areas. The vapor trails aren't purple, either. (I've seen enough of them, having been stationed at Vandenberg AFB, where most of the west coast tests are done, where I was in charge of data analysis for ICBM tests.)
Sun, 2012-12-09 15:40
Mon, 2012-12-10 17:09
I'm fourteen years younger than Steve Erickson. I was a conservative in my teenage years as well, and for many of the same reasons. And, like him, I had many of the same questions as well.
Like Erickson, I say hooray for managed capitalism. I have no idea who came up with the phrase "unbridled capitalism," but it's pretty clear they never tried to plow a field with a draft horse, bet on the fourth race at Saratoga, or even ride a pony. We don't need a micromanaged economy, but we do need to set the rules up to benefit as many people as possible. If you want a nation to succeed through hard work, then you need to set the rules up so that hard work translates into success instead of two weeks' severance pay after 30 years.
And with the world becoming both increasingly technological and increasingly competitive, we need citizens than can think and do math, no matter their race, gender, or whether they come from Montana or Myanmar. But Lysenkoism has found a warm, welcoming home in the religious right and its creationism. And it's not just creationism where the right rejects science – Todd Akin and Trofim Lysenko have a lot in common with their ignorance of biology, to give just one example.
I supported Reagan because he believed in America, and Reagan's optimism was a big draw. Reagan gave the impression that if you followed his lead and did what he recommended, there would be a better America for everyone, regardless of race, creed, or color.
But today, can anyone honestly say that the Tea Party believes in a better America for all its citizens? Can anyone honestly say that the Tea Party shares Reagan's optimism for the future? Nonsense. Conservatives have essentially given up on making America a better place. I believe in America, but I didn't leave conservatism – it left me.
Fri, 2013-01-04 19:39
This article is so frustrating! It took him his whole life seeing what was happening over and over again to finally give in to the truth! I'm glad he finally did and I do hope more Republicans wake up and see the world as it really is. I also was held in the grip of conservative idealogy, but when I was 17 Watergate happened and I started to question the party line. It is no surprise to me that he thought to become more liberal in thinking, he would have to put up an image of Mao in his room! (Conservative Propaganda) It is also propaganda that Liberals don't blame Johnson for Viet Nam. They do! Don't mean to beat you up. Welcome to reality. Sure could have used your insight before things got so bad. (and obvious)
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Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick Talks about what she thinks of the role change of pepper:
Things have been rough for Pepper Potts lately.
She came back to work for Tony Stark only to get blown up and nearly die. To save her life, Stark had to implant her with a magnetic heart and replace some of her missing limbs with cybernetics. Norman Osborn targeted Stark and Maria Hill, which sent them on the run, leaving Potts in charge of Stark Industries. In the process, she found an armor Stark designed with her in mind and ended up donning it to flee her pursuers and save her boss' life. During it all, Pepper slowly grew into her role as a hero, dubbing herself Rescue.
Now, Potts finds herself in the middle of Siege after helping bring Stark back from his vegetative state. But, her story hasn't been fully told as writer Kelly Sue DeConnick tracks Rescue's journey from New York to Broxton, Oklahoma in RECUE, a one-shot that will tie into both Siege and the Women of Marvel celebration.
"Pepper has always been appealing to me in the same way that [actress] Rosalind Russell never fails to put a smile on my face," DeConnick says. "The hard shell, the quick wit, the compensatory bravado! Love it. But the way her situation [has] changed recently, this power conundrum that she's facing, that I find fascinating."
According to DeConnick, the transition from assistant to headline player has not been the easiest for Potts, noting that she has essentially been the right hand woman to one of Marvel's more complex and challenged heroes for most of her career.
"But now she's given the opportunity to don the mantle herself," DeConnick notes. "She doesn't have to be support staff anymore, not a plot device, not tied to the train tracks, not doing her part to make exposition less obvious. She's stepping into position not only as a
heroine, but as a protagonist. That's really interesting to me because it's completely foreign territory for Pepper; it's way out of her comfort zone. Doubt and fear are not emotions with which Pepper's accustomed. Having the opportunity to be with her and sort of metaphorically hold her hand as she makes her way through this particular minefield, creatively, it's a great place to be."
With so much going on in her life, it might seem like Potts doesn't have the time to slow down for a one-shot, but DeConnick promises a mix of action and drama that will fit right in with what her husband Matt Fraction has been doing over in INVINCIBLE IRON MAN.
"I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to tell you about the plot but there's some punching, some explosions and some compulsive de-cluttering that would make 'Clean House' guru Peter Walsh proud," DeConnick replies coyly.
While not able to comment further on the story within RESCUE, DeConnick happily turned to the Women of Marvel celebration in general which has spawned a number of projects like GIRL COMICS.
"It feels great," the writer says of her participation in the event. "I lack the superlatives to tell you how much I like the people with whom I'm working-everyone has been amazing. I've gotten to play with some choice characters and I have-particularly with RESCUE-written a story that I'm proud of, one that touches on issues that are close to my heart. I'm grateful to Marvel for the opportunity and for what has been a genuinely dream-come-true experience."
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By Special Correspondent Jessica Yee
So while I was out in the real world yesterday working up north in Nunavik (which is not Nunavut – for those of you who think you're bad ass having heard about Nunavut before – Nunavik is a completely different Inuit region) this happened in the feminist blogosphere regarding the lack of mainstream feminist coverage of Feminism FOR REAL – Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism.
Yes it's true I edited Feminism FOR REAL and have since been sussing out various reactions and mentions of the book. I don't consider myself a writer at all – I work 24/7 leading the Native Youth Sexual Health Network across North America (the first book I put together Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, Sexuality, and Communities of Color was my initial attempt in entering book world) so I'm new to all this you need to do A, B, and C to get a book out there because I often struggle with what books and blogs mean when shit goes down in real life (which is also why my online writing has stopped as of late)
The publisher of the book was the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives but the book is by no means a "Canadian" book only. Several of the contributors live in both the US and Canada, I myself live in the US part-time, work in the US part-time, and being Indigenous don't identify as either US or Canadian. But people telling me that I need to sell my soul to Amazon or a bigger name publication and not stick with an independent, small-house, union printed publisher so we can be "known" isn't something I want to do (and is honestly counter-productive to what the book is about anyways).
However I strongly believe in the contributors and creators of Feminism FOR REAL and what we're saying so I'm going to address some major points of clarification here about what we always wish the mainstream feminist blogosphere and world(s) in general would own up to/change/or just do but as time and actions prove yet again, rarely happens:
1) The mainstream feminist blogosphere and organizational world in the US and Canada is dominated by white girls with a long history attached to how that came to be. Let's come to terms with that and stop derailing with "but this one guest blogger of color did this" or "but we're looking to change one day/hopefully/soon/eventually". How about we save some time and effort and just be honest about what's going on in reality and that this is absolutely influencing in small or large degrees who is talking about the book and why. So when the white girls at these mainstream feminist blogs are saying they didn't know about the book, or need to be educated about it, or can't be expected to be bothered to know about its existence – I believe them.
2) I'm saying point number 1 because it has to do with who knows what, when, and how. Meaning that this isn't just about "I didn't get the e-mail about the book" or "I admit I received it but didn't take it seriously" or "the promotion of the book in my world sucks!" Let's go back to the why – why didn't you hear about it? Why isn't your world talking about it? Beyond being busy (me and my ancestors have been busy for the last 500+ years trying not to be erased – but that's neither here nor there) it also has to do with what you yourself are or aren't making an effort to be in the know about or do and the fact that so many people think that what's right in front of them is everyone else's reality as well. To clarify – I'm not beyond being accountable to the inaccessibility of information and the mediums it's available in because we most definitely exist in ableist, classist, and hierarchal settings. If you didn't get the e-mail about the book – no worries. I'm talking about why people aren't more involved in supporting and promoting our work to begin with at places like Racialicious, the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, Muslimah Media Watch and more (all who posted more than once about the book's existence) beyond when they want to check mark box that they had their mandatory being progressive dosage of people of color (which typically amounts to saying things like they are such huge fans of us but don't actually read, buy, or promote without having to explicitly be told several times what we're writing)? I believe in all of our work so damn much – so yes I do think people ought to know about us more – especially if they are going to write stuff on blogs or organizational profiles about being so "inclusive".
Several of the books contributors are Indigenous – so are people way too busy including and actively seeking out young Indigenous people to be part of what they're doing that they somehow missed this? Have there been countless mentions of books written by Indigenous people on feminist blogs who are actively talking about how feminism is actually an Indigenous concept that this book would have been one too many? Didn't think so. What isn't being said is that so many people don't know about our work – not because they didn't get the message – but because they aren't really invested in knowing about us to begin with, or at least to the extent of knowing we produced this book. Which sounds eerily familiar to when people tell me it's not their fault they don't know about colonization because no one told them about it – while the people in my community continue to live through the highest rates of violence, suicide, and poverty in North America. At what point does it become enough that you oughta know – or oughta use the power and privilege you may have to tell other people in your own community(ies) when you find out yourself?
3) Which brings me to my biggest point of all which is that I myself am not looking for this book to be the most popular, reviewed, or mentioned in the universes of feminism and I'm ESPECIALLY not interested in taking a seat at the tiny place of the big table that's been carved out for me. In fact the whole book questions the many fucked up areas and products of "Feminism" and asks readers to be for real about exactly what so many movements are quick not to do – appear divided, critical, or accountable to fuck ups – in this case Feminism – policed in and outside of academia – for fear of not being truly "united". Western notions of polite discourse are apparently the tactics we should follow. I know damn well that if I had a certain well known last name in Feminism that one random post somewhere about this book would've been picked up by dozens and then we wouldn't even be having this discussion. And are we really prepared to say that even if we had spent thousands of dollars on PR for the book that it would be magically sold and picked up with soaringly high levels of support? Really?
Which is all sounding to me like I'm being the educator again of other people's oppressions and in all honesty it's way too tiring. I've been reflecting a lot lately on how we are so busy telling other people not to be oppressive to our communities that we have little energy left to deal with what's going on inside of our own communities. I'm finished with doing the educating on how feminism needs to change – it's been done. And it's no longer going to come at the physical, mental, and spiritual costs of me being frustrated, exasperated, and then empty – for what? My community needs me and we've paid the price for other people's comforting disillusion with reality for far too long.
Perhaps this showed us that we really shouldn't expect the mainstream feminist blogosphere to talk about Feminism FOR REAL. I really should have believed them the first time I got shoved out.
Feminism FOR REAL contributor Shaunga Tagore on "Filling the Gap":
Some of us live our lives in 'the gap.' This 'gap' is where we were born, how we were displaced from our homes or removed from our histories. The gap is where we were forced to forget our languages, our traditions and our cultures. In this gap we love and express ourselves in ways that don't fit into neat categories, but instead shake the grip that rigid boundaries have upon our world and our lives. Look at this gap—acknowledge it, notice it, VALUE it— and you'll see the complex and varied ways in which we fight, challenge, survive, celebrate and love fiercely, even while enveloped in a system that enforces our separation from our spirits and selves.
When feminists 'call-out' other feminists for their racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, ableism, ageism, or classism, when a solid anthology is put together making clear the ways in which Feminism (capital 'F') has Progressed (capital 'P') through maintaining the oppression it supposedly wants to dismantle (and through the unrecognized labour, effort and heart of the people it oppresses), when numerous people contribute to this anthology and read this anthology with the aim of steering feminism to a more helpful and empowering place, when someone posts a blog recognizing that the book itself has been ignored in many feminist spaces (for WHATEVER reasons it might be ignored for): these 'call-outs' are not just people 'complaining without taking action.' They are not 'pointing to a gap and refusing to fill it.' They are pointing to real lives, real histories and experiences, real beating hearts and REAL feminism that deserve to be acknowledged and refuse to be silenced. We ARE the gap and we're not just an empty space waiting to be filled. We're full to the brim, and spilling over.
The book Feminism FOR REAL actually spells out what I'm saying in much greater detail. It might be more useful for feminism to engage with it rather than thinking up all the reasons we don't have time to read it.


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Those that know me know I have bouts of general anxiety disorder (sometimes not so general) So i my reading on finding ways to reduce or eliminate my anxiety I have found that Omega 3s are quite helpful. In studies those that have increased their Omega 3s had shown a reduction in anxiety and depression. Most people get their Omega 3s from fish and fish oil tablets. A better way is in a smoothie!
No not blending your fish, but rather with dark leafy greens! Leafy greens are a great source of Omega 3s, not as much as that fish but still a good source. Spinach and Kale along with Broccoli tops the list of good sources. Flaxseed is also rich in Omega 3s so that is why I try adding it to every smoothie I can!
Here is a great green smoothie to help with your anxiety and depression.
- 2 cups fresh baby spinach
- 4 stalks fresh kale
- 1/2 cup fresh blueberries
- 1/2 large orange
- 1/2 cup rice milk
- 2 bananas
- 2 tablespoon ground flax seed
Blend in the veggies with the milk first, then add each of the fruits and finally the flaxseed. Blend until creamy and smooth! Serves about 3.


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Log Cabin, Blue Hill, 1907
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A log cabin located on Parker Point in Blue Hill belonging to a rusticator in 1907.
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Dhoom 3 is the most awaited movie of the month and year too. Dhoom 3 is still to be released but viewers are mad before the release of the movie and why not it is the much awaited movie of the year.
Dhoom 3 is another movie under the banner of Yash Raj Films and is directed by none other than Vijay Krishna Acharya. The movie is already become a blockbuster as it is attracting and gluing so much viewers towards it. Aditya Chopra the producer of Dhoom 3 is very happy with the way everything is going on.
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Dhoom 3 is the 3rd part of its series Dhoom in which Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra are playing their similar roles which they performed in the last two parts of Dhoom i.e. of Inspector Jai Dixit and Ali Akbar respectively.
While on the other hand the adversary role in Dhoom 3; this time is given to the one of the bollywood's great Aamir Khan and with him there will be the bollywood sensation diva Katrina Kaif as Sahir and Aaliya respectively.
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Dhoom 3 had its shooting finally ended on 14th September, 2013 and now it will be all set to be released on the decided day if there will be no further delay due to some reason. Dhoom 3 will be released on 20th December, 2013 just before the Christmas and New Year.
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I don't agree with Muay Thai - I say Krav Maga, the Israeli Self Defense System, check it out: http://www.kravmaga.com/krav01.htmlOriginally Posted by Sabong
I don't agree with Muay Thai - I say Krav Maga, the Israeli Self Defense System, check it out: http://www.kravmaga.com/krav01.htmlOriginally Posted by Sabong
krav maga is pretty much just israeli sambo. less of an indivual focused art, more of a mixup of the most effective points of other arts. i think the thread is more addressing individual standup arts.
i consider a specific style to be something with hundreds of years of tradition, and organized competition
something like boxing, karate, tae kwon do, muay thai, kickboxing, etc.
krav maga is just straight up killer art, and outside of the military, the teachings are altered because of a difference in situation. last i checked you wont be fighting anyone who has a gun, or just want to kill them ASAP.
HW: Cro Cop | Barnett | Gonzaga
LHW: Rampage| Shogun
MW: KANG | Sakuraba | Spider Silva | Baroni | Akiyama
WW: Thiago Alves | GSP | Mach
LW: Gomi | BJ Penn | Aoki | Jamie Varner reppin' AZCS | DIDA
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"CB Dollaway made a bad decision and now he gets a 2nd chance to earn a victory tonight against CB Dollaway" - Mike Goldberg
Fav MMA: Sudo, Stevenson, Shields, Kid, Werdum, Hendo, Rampage, Gomi, Sakurai, Okami, Penn, Kawajiri, Big Nogs
Fav Boxers: Sam Peter, RJJ, Pacman, Dawson, Frazier, Hatton, Winky Wright, Paul Williams, SSM, Miranda, Cotto, Linares
i do muay thai so i will say that
Fav fighters
HW fedor, randy, AA, nog, brock, junior dos santos
LHW chuck, rampage, wandy, babalu, forest, shogun,
MW silva, bisping, franklin, hendo, maia
ww GSP, hughes, davis, alves,
If we are talking pure striking like kickboxing, tae kwon do, muay thai, etc.... then it is definitely muay thai. Muay Thai can be used in any stand up situation. Close, far, bending down, etc.
If you add martial arts with combinations of striking and grappling, then muay thai is right up there with them... it really depends on what situation you find yourself in.
Bas and a toss up between Lyotos karate style, and Andersons style of fighting. IMO
BUT really theres no BEST striking style, its the way the fighters USE there own styles in fights.
"Anger causes many things, baldness, impotence, waking up in the middle of the night with your hands covered in blood and you dont know what happened. Hey, Ive been around. - Bas Rutten (GTA 4)
most of the best strikers in the world have background in muy thai. anderson silva is the prime example...arguably the most dangerous striker in the sport and the form he uses? muy thai.
It's really hard to say what the best striking style is. It really depends on the situation and the fighter more than anything else.
Muay Thai is going to get a lot of votes obviously and rightly so. It's an extremely effective art of striking.
But, has anyone watched Savate? They have amazing footwork.
"To be truly walking on the warrior's path, we have to bring our minds back to the time when we were not ashamed of our dreams; when reality had not yet frustrated our ambitions; when our desire was still too strong to be repressed, and our spirit refused to surrender in resignation; when we were not yet doctors, businessmen, or lawyers, but still wanted to be heroes, leaders, bodhisattvas. The first step on the way to being warriors is to get back in touch with our dreams."
ha, FAG!!!
heh, i keed, i keed. savate is a very scientific martial art, and it even comes with a side of silly shoes. i wouldn't be surprised if some silver-glove savateur (just a plain badass name) makes waves at some point due to the lack of mma 'press-time' the sport gets.
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Ok, so, I recently bought an iBuypower gaming laptop which is basically a rebranded MSI GT60. I have been extremely satisfied with it so far. My only complaint has been that the Bigfoot LAN option ROM is enabled, and I cannot disable it. If I select to disable the ROM, it enables itself again on the next boot. After playing around with the BIOS I noticed it is booting in legacy mode. Upon setting it to UEFI mode, I no longer get the option rom message. Then, like expected the machine does not boot as the disk is not formatted to GPT and Windows 8 is not set up for UEFI boot.
My question is; if I were to use the windows 7 system image tool to backup the install, then wipe the disk and convert to GPT, would the same system image work after a UEFI install?


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External scholarships require separate applications to be completed directly from the offering institutions and may have different requirements and deadlines than those offered by Kent State Trumbull. Please contact the organizations directly for additional information.
Amish Descendant Scholarship Fund (ADSF)
The Amish Descendant Scholarship Fund (ADSF) was founded by a small group of former Amish with big dreams — to help other former Amish realize their dreams of earning a college education. Because the Amish only study to the eighth grade, it is challenging for those who leave the community to pursue a higher education. For more information about ADSF, and to apply, visit Amish Descendant Scholarship Fund.
GFWC Ohio/Warren Junior Women's League
The GFWC Ohio/Warren Junior Women's League Shultz-Mills scholarship is open to non-traditional, independent female students (age 25 or older and not living with parents), and of sophomore or higher standing. Applicants must be a full-time student enrolled in a state accredited post-secondary institution, must be a resident of Trumbull County, must have a 3.0 grade point average or higher and must submit a completed application and personal/professional goal statement postmarked by March 15, 2014.
NALS of Northeast Ohio
NALS of Northeast Ohio is offering a scholarship award to qualified students interested in pursuing a career in the legal field. The amount of the scholarship is $1,000 for the first year and $1,000 per year for up to three additional years provided s/he maintains continued enrollment and a 2.5 or higher grade point average. Additional rules are provided with the attached application.
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Richard T. Naples Sr. and family own and operate three fireworks stores located in Niles, Hubbard, and Canton, Ohio. They have established the scholarship program to help young adults defray a portion of the costs of a higher education, which includes not only colleges and universities, but also institutes for fine and performing arts, as well as trade and vocational schools/institutes. Additional information can be obtained from Wholesale Fireworks.
Carrie Peska Memorial Nursing Scholarship
Carrie Peska dedicated 22 years of her life to Nursing before her tragic passing in an automobile accident in 2009. After her passing, the Carrie Peska Scholarship Committee was formed in order to award nursing scholarships in her honor. Individuals must be enrolled in a nursing program to apply. Additional information can be obtained from www.facebook.com/love4carrie. Application guidelines can be viewed by clicking here.
Seven Seventeen Credit Union Scholarships
Seven Seventeen Credit Union is the third largest credit union in Ohio and among the largest in the country. Ten branches in five Northeast Ohio counties serve more than 76,000 members. Seven Seventeen Credit Union offers scholarships for post-secondary education to graduating high school seniors who have an account at Seven Seventeen or are the legal dependent of a Seven Seventeen member, or are members of Seven Seventeen's cha-ching Teen Club or the edge young adult program. Additional information can be obtained from Seven Seventeen Credit Union.
Evelina Smith Memorial Scholarship
Smith was a former Board Chairperson for the FreeIndeed Prison Ministries and staff member at Kent State Trumbull. A scholarship has been established in her memory to support students that are children of incarcerated parents. Download the scholarship application here.
Trumbull County Historical Society's Becky Smith Memorial Scholarship
Smith was an honor student from Lakeview High School that held degrees from both Kent State University and Youngstown State University. She was an ardent promoter of the historic preservation of older buildings and homes and was hired by the city of Butler, PA in 2008 as manager for their Main Street Program to promote the revitalization of Downtown Butler. Smith died in an automobile accident in 2011 and a scholarship has been created in her memory. Additional information can be obtain from the Trumbull County Historical Society.
Trumbull County Women's History Committee
Open to female, non-traditional, full-time students, sophomore or higher. Must be residents of Trumbull County and have a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Download the scholarship application here.
Trumbull Memorial Health Foundation Scholarships
The Trumbull Memorial Hospital Foundation was originally incorporated in 1976 as an Ohio nonprofit corporation, with its supported organization and sole member being Trumbull Memorial Hospital. In March 2009, Forum Health, Trumbull Memorial Hospital, and the Foundation - along with other related entities - filed for Chapter 11. After more than two years of proceedings, the Foundation was released from the bankruptcy process and the Foundation Board secured a supporting organization designation with the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley in July 2012. The funds, previously restricted to the support of Trumbull Memorial Hospital, will now be used to support a broad range of health care services and health care education needs of Trumbull County residents. Additional information and applications are available through the Trumbull Memorial Health Foundation.
Trumbull Town Hall Scholarship
The Trumbull Town Hall Scholarship is open to female students, 24 years old and older, and that are Trumbull County residents.Applicants must be enrolled, or plan to be enrolled, full-time (12+ hours) for the 2014–2015 academic year at Kent State Trumbull, must be at least Junior status (60+ hours earned), have a 3.0 GPA or higher (cumulative), must demonstrate financial need, and must have a 2014-2015 FAFSA on file with Kent State Trumbull by the scholarship application deadline. Previous Trumbull Town Hall recipients may not apply. Further information, and the application for this scholarship, is available here.
Warren City Federation of Women's Clubs
The Warren City Federation of Women's Clubs is offering a scholarship to assist a Trumbull County woman pursuing a degree at Kent State Trumbull. The scholarship will be an award of $500. Applicants must be in good academic standing, have 3.0 GPA, and in their freshman or sophomore years. Full details and application form are available here.


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Volunteers, Charlie's Closet
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Tours of historic Guilford usually take in the town's numerous antique buildings. Gwen Fletcher and Dottie Volosin give a different kind of tour, a narrated medical life of their town: "A young man in that Cape cares for his mother and needed a hospital bed… We delivered a scooter there [pointing to a white Colonial]. The woman takes it all the way downtown! … We brought a wheelchair to the woman who lives in that house. She broke her foot at church…"
Gwen and Dottie will humbly tell you they're just drivers. These longtime volunteers for Charlie's Closet, part of an interfaith service organization, accept donations of used medical equipment and dispense it to those in need. They fetch, sort, and deliver a full gamut of rehabilitative aids, all donated: walkers, scooters, shower seats, canes, wheelchairs, commodes, hospital beds, and more.
Often, what's needed as much as the equipment is the simple human connection. On one recent call, Dottie pulled up in front of a brown ranch. Inside, an elderly wife accepted a shower chair for her husband. "He's got congestive heart failure," the woman began. Dottie listened while she adjusted the seat's height to fit the man. "People themselves may not know that they need to talk," she says. "There's relief in telling their story." The women sometimes serve as grief counselors; other times they linger to chat with elderly people or their caregivers. On their travels, they spread compassion and companionship along with the much-needed medical supplies.
Charlie's Closet has seen demand mushroom in recent years. As life expectancy increases, people want to remain in their homes with their families, but insurance policies don't always cover all equipment, "especially specialized rehabilitative items," Gwen explains. "Conditions tend to deteriorate more quickly than according to an insurance timeline."
"They actually anticipate what I need," says Peter Coppola, of Guilford. Diagnosed 20 years ago with muscular dystrophy, Coppola has retained mobility thanks to a succession of scooters and wheelchairs delivered by Gwen and Dottie.
Clients purchase each piece of equipment from the Closet for $1. Sometimes it's not returned; sometimes the "cost" is repaid tenfold. People give more money as their budgets allow, from a $5 bill or a $100 check to gifts-in-kind, which over the years have included handmade birdhouses, wreaths, and fudge.
Gwen and Dottie pride themselves on the wide variety of equipment they can deliver at a morning's notice. If they don't have a particular item, they'll work their connections to find it. In this regard, they believe they've enjoyed some divine intervention. "We had a client who had a brain-stem stroke," recalls Gwen. "He was completely incapacitated and needed a bed, a Hoyer lift, and a special mattress. We didn't have those things." A few days passed, and a call came from a group of nuns in the area, donating exactly the items needed. "It tells us we're not alone," chuckles Dottie. "We tend to have miraculously good timing."
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