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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 01:07 AM
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57. Gradual for me. I wasn't focused on parties at first, and regret that I ever did focus on party.
My introduction to politics was the "No Nukes" movement in the early 80's, and at the time I didn't even consider one party or the other all that much. I only cared about the issue. I got sidetracked into caring about party in the late 80's and into the 90's, but feel no such allegiance anymore. I side with who I think is right, and that's not always Democrats anymore (though never Republicans, who could fuck up a wet dream).
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  -When did you start noticing and worrying about all this crap? Armstead  Mar-30-11 07:37 PM   #0 
  - Born in 1946 and started becoming aware in high school. Civil Rights started it for me  eleny   Mar-30-11 07:44 PM   #1 
  - That's going back a ways..  Armstead   Mar-30-11 07:50 PM   #3 
  - I went to DC to march in August of '63  eleny   Mar-30-11 08:08 PM   #12 
     - I went on a cub scout camping that year  Armstead   Mar-30-11 09:30 PM   #32 
        - I was 16 so probably a little older than you. First year boomer, I guess  eleny   Mar-30-11 09:34 PM   #34 
  - 1963 when kennedy was murdered. hope went out the window then  roguevalley   Mar-30-11 09:59 PM   #39 
  - Born in 1947 and got politically aware in the late Eisenhower years  starroute   Mar-31-11 12:10 AM   #48 
     - Then you remember the Stevenson ""red" scare of 1952  eleny   Mar-31-11 11:09 AM   #72 
        - Little LuLu....Now there was a subversive  Armstead   Apr-01-11 07:06 PM   #82 
  - born in the sixites, raised by an elightened mom  ixion   Mar-30-11 07:49 PM   #2 
  - I started having my doubts as far back as the Nixon years.  stevedeshazer   Mar-30-11 07:50 PM   #4 
  - Sometimes it has seemed like a tape loop..The GOP gets in...  Armstead   Mar-30-11 08:02 PM   #9 
  - Right after returning from Southeast Asia, 1974....  Scuba   Mar-30-11 07:52 PM   #5 
  - I Have No Faith in the "Pendulum"  AndyTiedye   Mar-30-11 07:52 PM   #6 
  - When I voted for Mondale in 84  DJ13   Mar-30-11 07:56 PM   #7 
  - I was 16 in 1968  woofless   Mar-30-11 07:57 PM   #8 
  - When Reagan was elected.  Justpat   Mar-30-11 08:02 PM   #10 
  - That was certainly a wake up call  Armstead   Mar-30-11 08:06 PM   #11 
  - that's my era too.  nashville_brook   Mar-30-11 09:41 PM   #35 
  - Me too  TuxedoKat   Mar-31-11 08:24 AM   #68 
  - I watched the PBS series on Vietnam in 1983.  intheflow   Mar-30-11 08:08 PM   #13 
  - Ever since the first time I could legally vote at 18.  al_liberal   Mar-30-11 08:09 PM   #14 
  - sept/2001!  wildbilln864   Mar-30-11 08:10 PM   #15 
  - Watergate did it for me  tnlurker   Mar-30-11 08:14 PM   #16 
  - Looks like a lot like you except that I was a Marxist.........  socialist_n_TN   Mar-30-11 08:15 PM   #17 
  - I've become a rabid miderate socialist  Armstead   Mar-30-11 08:37 PM   #23 
     - Of course.......  socialist_n_TN   Mar-30-11 08:46 PM   #27 
        - Actually, I'm laid back.....But I have a contrarian streak and like to stir the pot  Armstead   Mar-30-11 09:11 PM   #29 
  - November 2000. Bush didn't have a snowball's chance in hell, but he got elected anyways.  Initech   Mar-30-11 08:16 PM   #18 
  - Yeah, odd how that happened wasn't it?  Armstead   Mar-30-11 08:37 PM   #24 
  - Same here!  costahawk1987   Mar-31-11 01:51 AM   #59 
  - As a servicemember and college student at the time in 2001, it didn't take long to wake up...  Earth_First   Mar-30-11 08:18 PM   #19 
  - Kent State.  Golden Raisin   Mar-30-11 08:25 PM   #20 
  - 1.Reagan 2.Clinton impeachment 3.Junior Bush 4.Wisconsin 2011  lutefisk   Mar-30-11 08:26 PM   #21 
  - About the same, but it started more for me  Sherman A1   Mar-30-11 09:16 PM   #31 
     - During Vietnam and Watergate, I felt the media were still with the people  lutefisk   Mar-31-11 02:03 AM   #60 
        - My thinking was more along the lines of  Sherman A1   Mar-31-11 05:31 AM   #63 
  - Seeing the Vietnams War on TV and the military draft...  MilesColtrane   Mar-30-11 08:34 PM   #22 
  - I was Grade A prime chuck draft meat for a while....  Armstead   Mar-30-11 08:43 PM   #26 
  - Learning who the "establishment" was is when I first became aware of the GOP and the Corporate State  Urban Prairie   Mar-30-11 08:41 PM   #25 
  - Born 60 so aware of politics all my life but US going down the tubes? REAGAN  hollowdweller   Mar-30-11 09:03 PM   #28 
  - Ronnie sure did set some bad things in motion  Armstead   Mar-31-11 12:30 AM   #53 
  - The Diem assassination got my attention.  rug   Mar-30-11 09:16 PM   #30 
  - 1982  nashville_brook   Mar-30-11 09:33 PM   #33 
  - 1978 actively  upi402   Mar-30-11 09:48 PM   #36 
  - around 1966  spanone   Mar-30-11 09:48 PM   #37 
  - After Tiananmen Square  LadyHawkAZ   Mar-30-11 09:57 PM   #38 
  - election 2000  justabob   Mar-30-11 10:01 PM   #40 
  - 1968. nt  bemildred   Mar-30-11 10:02 PM   #41 
  - Had my suspicions in the 60s.  madamesilverspurs   Mar-30-11 10:08 PM   #42 
  - When Rupert Murdoch  KT2000   Mar-30-11 10:14 PM   #43 
  - Yes, it's amazing that more don't care that freedom of speech...  Armstead   Mar-31-11 12:28 AM   #52 
  - The year was 1968...  GReedDiamond   Mar-30-11 10:15 PM   #44 
  - I remember 1968 like it was yesterday  Art_from_Ark   Mar-31-11 07:21 AM   #66 
  - Not until the foreclosure crisis and the bail out of the banks.. at that point it became  Liberal_in_LA   Mar-30-11 10:46 PM   #45 
  - The 2000 "election". I was 35 and a uncritical bot. Oh, I watched the news and  Thunderstruck   Mar-30-11 10:52 PM   #46 
  - In my mid-thirties, just before the 2004 election  DenverDad   Mar-31-11 12:04 AM   #47 
  - Interesting  Armstead   Apr-01-11 07:05 PM   #81 
  - sorry to say  shanti   Mar-31-11 12:13 AM   #49 
  - Well, hopefully the current excesses of the GOP will wake others up too  Armstead   Mar-31-11 12:25 AM   #51 
  - When we could not find the  JANdad   Mar-31-11 12:18 AM   #50 
  - 1968 at age of 10. It was clear to me that the powers that be were hell bent on fucking us over.  Luminous Animal   Mar-31-11 12:36 AM   #54 
  - When JFK was murdered.  Lugnut   Mar-31-11 12:51 AM   #55 
  - Richard Nixon sealed the deal for me  Armstead   Mar-31-11 11:23 AM   #75 
  - The 2000 "selection."  Skip Intro   Mar-31-11 01:00 AM   #56 
  - Gradual for me. I wasn't focused on parties at first, and regret that I ever did focus on party.  Forkboy   Mar-31-11 01:07 AM   #57 
  - It's too bad the conservatives have a party they can generally rally around....  Armstead   Mar-31-11 11:21 AM   #74 
  - Iran-Contra  Xicano   Mar-31-11 01:27 AM   #58 
  - 2007  Ramulux   Mar-31-11 02:40 AM   #61 
  - Around 1982  astral   Mar-31-11 02:43 AM   #62 
  - At the current dangerous level, 2002. I noticed the rise of the corporate state  mmonk   Mar-31-11 05:54 AM   #64 
  - Bush V Gore  Sky Masterson   Mar-31-11 06:00 AM   #65 
  - Regan Taxing Unemployment did it for me.  vicarofrevelwood   Mar-31-11 08:09 AM   #67 
  - When JFK, MLK and RFK were assasinated.  Jazzgirl   Mar-31-11 08:54 AM   #69 
  - For me it was during the 1980 election campaign  Cresent City Kid   Mar-31-11 08:58 AM   #70 
  - I can rememeber the shift to the zeitgeist in the early 80's and how fast it was  Armstead   Mar-31-11 11:18 AM   #73 
  - around '67  handmade34   Mar-31-11 09:11 AM   #71 
  - Late 1960's, Vietnam and the draft dragging on and on and on. nt  raccoon   Mar-31-11 12:25 PM   #76 
  - 1963 Dallas  Drew Richards   Mar-31-11 12:31 PM   #77 
  - +1 me too  OffWithTheirHeads   Mar-31-11 06:21 PM   #78 
  - Health care reform  pinkkillersheep   Mar-31-11 06:30 PM   #79 
  - That would have probably done it for me if I was younger  Armstead   Apr-01-11 07:03 PM   #80 
  - When Nixon became President  SteveG   Apr-01-11 08:41 PM   #83 
 

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