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In reply to the discussion: BLUE or RED? The Place/State/Community where you grew up. Influences? [View all]Leith
(7,809 posts)I wasn't in a shop household, but everyone I knew had stories of the grandfathers, uncles, and neighbors participating in the 1936-37 sitdown strike. One friend had a memory of being a kid being woken up in middle of the night by a loud noise. He looked out the window and there were tanks rolling down his street toward the factory.
I was in junior high Civics class when the Watergate hearings were being shown on TV. I thought that Sam Ervin was the smartest man I had ever seen. Not long after that, college students exercising their freedom of assembly rights peacefully were gunned down by wannabe tough soldiers. I still don't understand how anyone could support the crooked and corrupt rethug party.
To this day, I am strongly pro-union, liberal as hell, and proud of it.