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In reply to the discussion: What originally sparked your interest in politics? [View all]DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)When I was in 3rd grade, living near San Francisco, President Carter debated Gerald Ford at the Palace of Fine Arts in SF. I stayed inside at recess to watch the proceedings. I was fascinated by all of it. I didn't understand politics at all, of course, and the debate didn't serve to educate me--I was too young.
I became interested in politics in a much more serious way during the campaign for the 2000 election. I could see that reporters and talking heads were reporting things I just wasn't seeing, e.g., giving Bush high marks for his debate performances. I finally understood that there was an agenda at work, and that "the news" did not constitute an objective reporting of events. I was a Democrat during the Clinton years, but things were just kind of working, so I honestly didn't think that much about politics. George W Bush and his enablers changed all of that.