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In reply to the discussion: In what year did you become politically "sentient?" [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)46. We're about the same age, but a few years earlier for me.
Saw reports of "SALT talks" on the news when Carter was President, then asked my parents what it meant.
Was given further explanation about nuclear weapons too, which was when I first truly realized the world was insane.
Edit: The Jim Jones tragedy came out around the same time period, which further confirmed the insanity. Stopped putting so much trust in older people and realized that I was ultimately "on my own" in this world. Lol. Felt like telling my early teachers to blow it out their ass as they continued their happy-happy propaganda which misrepresented reality. Lol.
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1960 I stayed up all night keeping the totals and states as they were called.
Democrat 4 Ever
Aug 2020
#47
My mother, and then my aunt, were head of the Young Democrats in our Oregon community.
OregonBlue
Aug 2020
#3
It didn't hit me how multi-faceted and serious this was until the early Clinton years.
Mike 03
Aug 2020
#5
Late 80's or early 90's. My grandma was the head of our polling place, which was also located in my
Luciferous
Aug 2020
#14