Reply #122: Hmmm, I was going to say abortion, but upon reflection it appears that anti-Reaganism galvanized me [View All]

[Citizen Jane]

I remember discussing Watergate with my Mom and finding it amazing and repulsive, but I was only 4 or 5.

I remember thinking Ford was a dumbass (and watching Chevy Chase reinforce that).

I remember working on the Carter/Mondale campaign in junior highschool and that was definitely about civil liberties and abortion.

I first hated rethuglican thinking when Reagan took credit for Carter's negotiations for freeing the hostages and my schoolmates refused to believe that Carter had anything to do with it.

I thought Reagan was an asshole for politicizing the Olympics and keeping our athletes at home.

I remember when my parents had to extend the terms of their gigantic loan to send me to college so that it was twice as long in part because Reagan eliminated the tax breaks for education loans.

I remember boycotting (which I do to this day) Domino's Pizza...the first corporation I realized donated millions of dollars to the extremist right-to-lifers.

It is so hard when my DH (an independent) lionizes Reagan. I guess opposites really do attract. At least he likes Obama.