And how, I asked Paul Biver (the middle one and most articulate of three brothers serving as delegates from Belleville, Illinois), are you going to vote in the Presidential preference ballot? I don’t know, he answered, they haven’t told us yet. And, he went on to say, you know, the problem is, these people think that if everyone were conservative, all the problems in the world would be solved—like the liberals and radicals when I was in high school thought that if everyone agreed with them all the problems would be solved. It’s kind of a confining view.
Why did you come down, I asked later. Well, my whole family came, my brothers and sisters and my parents are here. My father wanted us to be exposed to this side of things, and of course, when you’re a kid like me, you really enjoy meeting new people: I’m keeping a diary down here—actually, I’ve been keeping it for six months—and that’s what it’s about, not the surface stuff like this (he looked around at the Nominating Convention) but what’s really happening.
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