I grew up in Marin 40 years ago. I went to military school, and wore my uniform to and from home the one year I was a day student. I was spat upon and harangued, even then, by Viet Nam war opponents. The military school I attended, run by the Episcopal Church, closed in ’69, and was reborn several years later as a co-ed first or second tier private school. It has evolved into a nut case factory, almost as bad as the public schools in its emphasis on teaching what to think rather than how to think. I was away from Marin in the ’70′s, but that is really when it started to go nuts. The majority were full blown crazy by the time I returned in ’83.
I lived again in San Rafael, Sausalito and Tiburon from ’83-’06. It dominated by transplants (Boxer is from upstate New York), and for the life of me, I can’t see any logic in the prevailing thinking there. After observing Marin’s changes over more than 50 years, and the changes elsewhere, Marin has been, and I am afraid still is, a harbinger of the irrationalty that is overtaking the country; once staid San Mateo and Contra Costa Counties follow not too far behind.
Obama is the quintessential Marin candidate. They are working to elect a man who openly says he will work against their and their kids’ interests. It will be interesting to see how these rich liberals like paying 52% federal tax on top of 11% state tax. Will these rich doctors, lawyers and architects just raise their rates?
