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In reply to the discussion: when did your political awakening happen? [View all]House of Roberts
(5,159 posts)31. Summer 1968, watching the conventions with an older friend.
I was 11, and my friend was 14. He explained everything that was happening so that I understood it.
Then I asked my dad what was the difference between Democrats and Republicans. He said Republicans only care about the rich, and the Democrats care about everybody else. I've never found that to be false, so here I am.
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70 - 71. Just because I got out of my small town bubble and bothered to see other viewpoints.
dameatball
Oct 2019
#5
The Iraq war is what did it for me. However my grandma was a poll worker every election
Luciferous
Oct 2019
#9
My first real political memory was the election of 1972 - I was just blown away by Shirley Chisholm!
FM123
Oct 2019
#53
2000 election showed me what ruthless, power hungry mad men conservatives were.
Initech
Oct 2019
#63
Mostly JFK election. Lots of dem college friends. And I WAS'NT 21 and COULDN'T VOTE--
bobbieinok
Oct 2019
#67
Bork nomination. At least, my first letters to my senators to vote NO.
question everything
Oct 2019
#74
Second grade. 1952. I remember reading about the candidates in Parade magazine.
hedda_foil
Oct 2019
#85
5th grade, history teacher ms. Miller, then social studies ms. Brown during Iran hostage crisis
onetexan
Oct 2019
#95
Parents always voted but weren't "political." I got into it my first year of college & by the time
Hekate
Oct 2019
#96
i was always reading the paper. we had a good lefty editorial cartoonist. then i discovered c-span
pansypoo53219
Oct 2019
#106
Actively? When I realized the right was deploying Scaife strategy to nullify Bill Clinton
Grasswire2
Oct 2019
#132
Unfortunately I was politically wake for the wrong side from my Jr High years.
GulfCoast66
Oct 2019
#149
1973, with the growing scandal named Watergate. I was 12 and what was happening
madinmaryland
Oct 2019
#160