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In reply to the discussion: What originally sparked your interest in politics? [View all]Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)34. 1968
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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