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SilasSoule (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 09:46 PM Original message |
Poll question: At What age did you have your politcal awakening? |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. It actually wasn't too long ago. |
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nothingshocksmeanymore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. 9 years old accompanying my father to visit striking farmworkers |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. i remember being 13 years old in 1968 |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I remember 1968 too.... |
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Zookeeper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:18 AM Response to Reply #3 |
30. Something about 1968.... |
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BillZBubb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. My father was solid Repug, my mother a closet liberal |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. I was.... |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
7. I've had three. I was 11 and watched Somoza's troops shoot a reporter... |
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Design8edGrouch (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
8. Two early memories |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
9. I was 11-12. Dad told me that... |
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Virginian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
10. 1962 - I discovered "Camelot" |
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liarliartieonfire (448 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. I was 10 yrs old - Nov 22 1963 - the murder of John F Kennedy |
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cally (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
12. I was about 9 and we had to write a report on a famous |
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ulTRAX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
13. 1968 |
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Lindacooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
14. I met my future husband and we talked politics all the time. |
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Redneck Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
15. Chanting "Down with Nixon! Up with Congress!" |
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neverborn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
16. Age 15-16 |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
17. While A Little Girl, I Used To Imagine Ideal States |
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hang a left (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
18. Late Bloomer myself. The Clinton hearings and then the |
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OnionPatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
19. I was 14 |
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SilasSoule (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:09 AM Response to Reply #19 |
28. Welcome to DU OnionPatch |
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chelsea0011 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
20. Kent State to Ronnie RayGun |
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CalebHayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
21. 9 |
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LearnedHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:57 AM Response to Reply #21 |
39. GREAT photo, cq! eom |
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MrPrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
22. No Red Diapers here? |
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nomatrix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:49 AM Response to Reply #22 |
36. What is a red diaper? |
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bigbillhaywood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:57 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Red diapers are people who's parents were 60s radicals. n/t |
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starroute (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 01:40 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. No, red diapers are people whose parents were Communists |
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Blasphemer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
23. Different levels at different times... |
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knight_of_the_star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
24. 3 1/2 years ago |
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American Renaissance (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
25. when I began to see the US from the outside, |
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FDRrocks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
26. around age 19 |
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starroute (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-26-04 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
27. My childhood was a process of progressive disillusionment |
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ACK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
29. Mondale/Raygun |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
31. Change the age, and my situation is exactly the same |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
32. Hmm |
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bigbillhaywood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
33. 1998-1999. Never liked "activists" in college. |
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SarahB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
34. As far back as I can remember |
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kodi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:37 AM Response to Original message |
35. 1968/age 14, when uncle died in viet nam |
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LearnedHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
37. I was always politically aware... |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
41. Neighbor wouldn't let his kids play with us. |
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JohnOneillsMemory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
42. Age 6 in 1967. Saw photos of Nazi camp victims. Fascism watcher since. |
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DemExpat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-27-04 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
43. Age 4 first "eye-opener" time.....age 49 last time election 2000.... |
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