She's reconsidered.
When I asked explicitly if she would vote for Biden in November she sighed and said, "I suppose I'll have to. It won't make any difference here though." So, she'll perhaps end up voting in her second Presidential election next Fall.
With regard to 2016 being her first, my sense is that she was singularly disinterested in politics until then. She is a clinician and has seen firsthand the horrors of our current medical delivery system for decades. Bernie's push for Medicare for All (along with her adult daughters pushing her) is what finally drew her out. Like most of her fellow physicians and Nurse Practitioners who aren't in it strictly for the boats, ski trips and country club memberships, she's long recognized that the only sane healthcare delivery system involves a national program, with, optionally, supplemental private insurance for things like breast augmentations, face lifts, botox injections and so forth.
Also, too, we were fortunate enough to be able to pay out of pocket for our two daughters undergraduate educations and were astounded at that expense, despite both of them attending state universities (albeit one out of state). The total we spent was upwards of $200,000. I believe that experience, too, coupled with Bernie's call for tuition-free state colleges and universities induced her to vote. Her first medically related degree was an Associates in Applied Science in Nursing; sufficient for her to become a board certified licensed Register Nurse (an R.N.). The total cost of tuition for her to earn that R.N. in two years? $72.00. Her Bachelor's in Nursing subsequent to that cost an additional $1,760.
There's an old adage that parents want better for their children. She and I want at least as much for our children as we had. Bernie is and was the only candidate arguing for policies that would allow the spousette and me to achieve our desire for our kids. I think that, more than anything else, is why she finally decided to vote.
With regard to 2016 being her first, my sense is that she was singularly disinterested in politics until then. She is a clinician and has seen firsthand the horrors of our current medical delivery system for decades. Bernie's push for Medicare for All (along with her adult daughters pushing her) is what finally drew her out. Like most of her fellow physicians and Nurse Practitioners who aren't in it strictly for the boats, ski trips and country club memberships, she's long recognized that the only sane healthcare delivery system involves a national program, with, optionally, supplemental private insurance for things like breast augmentations, face lifts, botox injections and so forth.
Also, too, we were fortunate enough to be able to pay out of pocket for our two daughters undergraduate educations and were astounded at that expense, despite both of them attending state universities (albeit one out of state). The total we spent was upwards of $200,000. I believe that experience, too, coupled with Bernie's call for tuition-free state colleges and universities induced her to vote. Her first medically related degree was an Associates in Applied Science in Nursing; sufficient for her to become a board certified licensed Register Nurse (an R.N.). The total cost of tuition for her to earn that R.N. in two years? $72.00. Her Bachelor's in Nursing subsequent to that cost an additional $1,760.
There's an old adage that parents want better for their children. She and I want at least as much for our children as we had. Bernie is and was the only candidate arguing for policies that would allow the spousette and me to achieve our desire for our kids. I think that, more than anything else, is why she finally decided to vote.
