My mother was the lone conservative of nearly a dozen brothers and sisters back in the 60s. (Had a can of "Goldwater" on the shelf in the office). She was one of those "Women in a mans world of business" kind of folks. At 22, she was the chief chemist at the Goodyear plant here in town. (She blew up the lab and got fired..) She spend 32 of her first 40 years of life in school, plus 6 of the next ten, had two Master's, four BA's, two (different from the Master's) Ph.D and a slew of certificates, an honorary Doctorate from South America somewhere, even a honorarium from Harvard.. Offered the first seat offered to a woman on the Securities and Exchange Commission. She worked the whole time..
Just,... everything.. She got blackballed from local society here in 70s (all Democrat) Alabama because she was a member of JBS..
She fell a long way.. Before she died in 94, she was a Clinton Democrat.. Sometimes I think it was drug and alcohol toxicity.. I know it can alter your mind. I didn't know it could "change" it..
My, how things can change!!
