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In reply to the discussion: The marginalization of "The Left" through the years. Not hearing us now at all. [View all]Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)in 1992 i was 19 and got to vote for the 1st time.. bill clinton, duh.. i lived in atlantic highlands, new jersey at the time boarding with a friend's uncle.. big in his local union.. electricians' if i remember correctly..
and yeah he voted clinton, too..
he also railed against the 'n***ers', 'k*kes', 'f*gs' at the dinner table *every single night*. i lasted all of two weeks dining with them (a requirement of being a boarder in his home, he told us). then i had to move out. couldn't do it. couldn't keep my big yap shut and the middle-class white irish-catholic 'daddy' at the head of the table wouldn't have me making him look stupid, small and racist in front of his family. i was asked to leave.
that was my last close-up encounter with blue-collar union types. from then on i have preferred the great unwashed.. poor, vocal and most of all.. progressive.