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In reply to the discussion: when did your political awakening happen? [View all]GaYellowDawg
(4,447 posts)80. 1976. I was 9.
Carters election. My family actually went through Plains on vacation and I got to meet Lillian Carter. I learned a lot about Watergate from reading Art Buchwald books and thought Ford was a criminal for pardoning Nixon. I was a huge Carter supporter during his whole administration and was heartbroken when people fell for Reagans bullshit.
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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