Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: What originally sparked your interest in politics? [View all]MineralMan
(146,189 posts)23. For me, it was the realization, in the early 1960s,
while I was still a high school student, that people were not being treated equally. I grew up in a very small town, and it wasn't until high school that I started seeing the bigger world. When I looked, I didn't like what I saw. Minorities were treated as second-class citizens or worse. Women were not treated equally. Around the world, people were starving, while I ate. Nuclear proliferation was threatening the entire world, and population growth threatened the entire planet. All of that combined to stimulate my interest in politics. It continues today.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
56 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
I was a Red Diaper baby of sorts. But, the civil rights movement got me involved.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#18
Listening to John F Kennedy describe U.S. young people as being the most unfit in history.
former9thward
Mar 2013
#20
I'm an Irish Catholic (nominally). We live and breathe politics at our house.
Ikonoklast
Mar 2013
#21
Being a teenager in the eighties and listening to my parents rant about Reagan.
RiffRandell
Mar 2013
#26
The utter devastation of the community I grew up in (metro Detroit.) And people's utter indifference
Romulox
Mar 2013
#27
I was really interested as a 3rd grader during the 1988 presidential election
tabbycat31
Mar 2013
#29
Originally? Elements in my own government being involved in the assassination of a President.
villager
Mar 2013
#30
My Dad was a committeeman in our town and taught me how to read a streetlist so I could
livetohike
Mar 2013
#31
Googling around, I found Newt. Gingrich's 'Language a Key Mechanism of Control'..
nenagh
Mar 2013
#36
Bobby Kennedy. I volunteered for his campaign when I was in High School. To this day ...
11 Bravo
Mar 2013
#46
My Dad. He said if you don't vote, you got no right to complain about the government.....
bettyellen
Mar 2013
#53