Whats the main reason your in Politics?

[Neoma]

what made you wake up?

[Bouncy Ball]

1. The election of 2000

that stolen election and that bastard who started squatting in the White House. I was never very politically active before that, though I was passionate.

[RagingInMiami]

2. "you're"

[Lone Pawn]

3. And don't capitalize "main" or "reason"

but we won't mention that, will we?

[Neoma]

5. Nasty typeing habit

[Kire]

9. what HAPPENED to my "in Politics"?

Is it missing...you didn't finish your question.

[Lone Pawn]

4. Once I realized that we were a minority party that was losing ground

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. I'm right, they're wrong? Oh dammit, I guess I'm a librul elitist...

;)

[TaleWgnDg]

7. Equality, diversity, due process, and an overall

social programs view of the world instead of the meism of the present-day Republican rightwingnuts.

BTW, it's the Democratic view that is embraced by much of the world (all of the developed world), not the meism-and-fuck-you, trigger-happy, non-inclusive, arbitrary, isolationist, unworldly, unsophisticated rightwingnut Republican view! Remember that next time red v blue comes up. Tis the rightwingnut view that is out of step with the entire world, not the Democratic view.


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[WCGreen]

8. Two things set the stage for me...

First, durring the urban uprisings in the mid to late 60's, when people rioted when restraint and patience just didn't get it anymore. my grandmother, a pious, devout Catholic, would refer to the people involved as "goddamn niggers." This while going to church every morning and saying the rosary every night....

I knew there was something there that didn't quite fit....

Then there was the Kent State fiasco. I was home sick the day the four kids were killed and my father was home with me and said "they should have killed more of the bastards."

A few months later, I was marching in the first Earth Day parade, organixing a school-wide walk out on the first aniversary of the Kent State shootings, I was in ninth grade and was forever cememented as a rebel.

So that is when I started to really look at what was going on around me.

Now outside of a few diversions caused by too much drink when I actually started to believe that republicans may have something there, I sobered up and have never looked back......

[murielm99]

10. 1968 woke me up.

I thought we were making some real progress.

Then, Bobby and MLK were assasinated. The Chicago convention turned into a police riot. That stupid Nixon was elected.

I was politically aware before then, but not involved. That did it for me.

[BamaGirl]

11. I've always been into politics.

My parents are old Reagan-hatin' Dems. ;)

[jonnyblitz]

12. because I loathe right wingers. n/t

[barackmyworld]

13. I failed my premed classes...

and government is SUCH an easier major than biomedical engineering...well I guess maybe it goes back a little further than that, probably because I was raised in Chicago, a super liberal town!

[Wapsie B]

14. Iran-Contra,

and the rwing's attempts to gang-rape this country.

[Skittles]

15. the blatant theft of the 2000 election

although I've been interested in politics for a long time, it was that damn election that really woke me up. Having lived with Duyba as my governor I knew damn well what we were in for.

[Selatius]

16. Peace, tolerance, forgiveness, and love for all

I hate to boil down my political meanderings over the few years I've been really "awake" into such a simple phrase, but that's what hit me when I try to sum it up. These 4 pillars seem worth fighting for. Also, it's things such as greed and hate that cause much pain in the world, and I figured the best course was naturally to question the status quo, to push for change and a better world.

[lpbk2713]

17. Because republicans exist.

Once they're anihilated maybe I'll slack off some. But as long as Annthrax advocates the use of Louisville Sluggers I say all's fair.

[Cerridwen]

18. Apparently I was born this way.

I remember wondering why a person was considered "wise" just because they were older. I remember wondering why someone was regarded as a "good" person because they had money. I remember wondering why some things were off limits to me because I am/was a girl. I didn't understand why I needed a priest to talk to God for me at a church during the day but I had a direct link to God at night at home when I said my prayers. I remember learning a girl could get pregnant without being married and I wondered why the nice girl I knew was suddenly the topic of gossip and somehow not so "nice." I remember wondering why I was supposed to respect my elders when my parents and family sometimes didn't respect the same "elder."

Oh well, guess I experienced a lot of wonderment as a kid.

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