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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:49 PM Original message |
Can you pinpoint the moment you became a serious *Liberal* thinker? |
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triguy46 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. Eat a lot of Spam since then? Seriously... |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. I will become one the day I start thinking seriously |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 09:50 AM Response to Reply #2 |
50. That is much the same as myself . . . |
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Roon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. When I came out of the closet |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Being both young and militant are good things . . . |
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Fox Mulder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. The moment the Supreme Court selected Bush as President in 2000. |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:06 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Goddy-God , , . |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:15 AM Response to Reply #4 |
37. That was when mine fully kicked in |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. There was a time before? |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Yeah - I guess my query should really be one of transitioning from |
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lost-in-nj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. OK |
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Pierre.Suave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
9. I did not have a moment... |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. I think it was Ted Kennedy's speech at the 1980 Democratic convention that won me over. |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
12. When I became seriously depressed. |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:25 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I think it makes total sense. |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Yes.... |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 10:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
26. I also think this makes total sense. . . |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
13. During the Clinton witch hunt. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
15. congressional takeover in '94 |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 09:43 AM Response to Reply #15 |
48. I think that was it for me too |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
16. when that bastard Reagan was running for president |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
17. Nope... |
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Shine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
18. Hey, I take it you're feeling better now? |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 10:58 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. I am, thank you very much . . . |
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SPKrazy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
19. In graduate school |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
21. After Newt Gingrich announced the Contract With America. Or as I began calling it soon after: |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 09:42 AM Response to Reply #21 |
47. You're right about that . . . |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
22. When I was living in Baltimore, and met a nice little old lady |
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huskerlaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
23. There wasn't one specific moment |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:00 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Hey . . . |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
24. I'm not a serious anything, but Zinn's "People's History" sealed me up. |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:01 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. It's in my pile of *to be read* . . . |
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DeposeTheBoyKing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
25. No. But I know it happened somewhere along the line. |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:02 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Thank Goddy-God!! |
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khashka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
31. Third grade |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
32. If by 'liberal' you just mean open-minded and someone who tries to be fair |
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Bennyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
33. We used to have a beautiful old theater in Sacramento |
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QMPMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
34. Back in the early 1970's, summer. Watergate |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 12:40 AM Response to Original message |
35. the summer of 1968 as I watched in horror the Chicago convention |
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drmeow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
36. Either my junior or senior year in HS |
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nomorenomore08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:01 AM Response to Original message |
38. Probably somewhere around 7th grade, when I became aware of the existence of the Religious Right. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
39. Saul Alinksy |
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Trailrider1951 (933 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 07:34 AM Response to Original message |
40. Watching the civil rights marches in the early 1960's |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
41. Initially, I thought it was when I wrote on the cassette tape "Watch for an 18.5 minute gap" |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
42. I was born this way I think |
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Bullwinkle925 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 09:47 AM Response to Reply #42 |
49. wash your mouth out!! |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
43. Watergate hearings & then the ERA amendment drive |
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grannylib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
44. While listening to Nixon's resignation speech, while at summer |
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Hobarticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
45. When Reagan made ketchup a vegetable... |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
46. The day Bush announced troops would be coming out of the DMZ. |
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av8rdave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
51. My "moment" took place over many months in the late 80s - early 90s |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
52. It depends on what "liberal" means |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
53. There were two events that really stick out in my mind. |
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BeachBaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
54. That's a tough one to answer. |
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regularguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
55. I think it was while reading Atlas Shrugged... |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
56. hard to say - one event which stands out is becoming aware of the Iran-Contra scandal |
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