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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:02 PM Original message |
What Made You A Liberal? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. One of my family secrets is that my grandmother was a Socialist. |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 12:11 AM Response to Reply #1 |
161. Are you serious? |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. Richard Milhouse Nixon. - n/t |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:05 PM Original message |
I got the knack of critical thinking at a very early age. |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. Hypocrisy made me a liberal at a young age. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
19. Re Vietnam War: Remember the monk who immolated himself in front of the Pentagon? |
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OffWithTheirHeads (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
42. Pretty much my story too. |
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peacebuzzard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 10:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
151. I agree with all you stated. |
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nookiemonster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 11:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
157. My story too. |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. As a little girl I was heartbroken about polluted rivers... |
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W_HAMILTON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
5. Bush. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. My religion, and the fact the right in this country is now Fascist (n/t) |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
7. as a military brat, and daughter of immigrants, I grew up in a world where |
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Happyhippychick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
8. I don't know how to put this delicately. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
26. Re: "if I did it, anybody can do it" NO ONE credits the incredible weight of Chance in their |
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Happyhippychick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:22 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Love the fish analogy. And I agree, it's about |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
9. This guy |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
10. A combination of Reagan, Bush I, Iran Contra and Gulf War I |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. The realization, at the age of 16, when I debated |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
12. Wanting fairness and justice for one and all. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
13. Voting for Reagan in 1980 |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
14. The Power of Christ™ Compelled Me |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:18 PM Response to Reply #14 |
70. hee hee . . n/t |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 12:22 AM Response to Reply #70 |
111. what about you annabanana? what made you a liberal? |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 06:01 AM Response to Reply #111 |
116. born & raised, my friend, , born & raised.. . . . . n/t |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:36 AM Response to Reply #14 |
141. Yup. Same here. |
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Dukkha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
15. John Lennon |
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bpeale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
16. i didn't realize i was a liberal until Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
17. Bill Clinton...n/t |
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fenriswolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
18. I came to the logical conclusion |
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montanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
20. Vietnam! eom |
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southernleftylady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
21. hypocrisy of living in the bible belt with the hypocrites saying how bad.. |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
22. I have been a liberal as long as I can remember. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
23. Red Diaper Baby. Socialist father and grandmother. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
24. Travel, languages, and learning precisely how f***ing stupid nationalism is |
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canoeist52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
25. history |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
27. Not being raised with much in the way of prejudice. |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
29. revulsion at Pat Buchanan and The Orange County Register editorials |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
30. Born a liberal, and I'll die one too |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
31. I am not down with all of the so called liberal agenda, but most of it, YES. |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
32. being told to "THINK" as a child. |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
33. common sense, and awe at the diversity of life on this planet . . . n/t |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
34. Life. nt |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
35. Life. |
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nonconformist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
36. I was raised a liberal. nt |
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Tektonik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
37. I've always been liberal on social issues |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
38. nixon |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
39. Your parents sound like mine |
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Sadie5 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:48 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Always been a lefty |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 08:51 AM Response to Reply #39 |
124. I am so envious of you. |
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ToeBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
41. Growing up in Utah, surrounded by Republican Mormon hypocrites. nt |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 04:33 PM Response to Reply #41 |
53. Hey, I grew up here too! Mormons are not as bad as the new brand of fundamentalist Baptists. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
43. 1968. |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
44. I really can't recall a time when I WASN'T a liberal. n/t |
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suninvited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
45. That's what my father wants to know.. |
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goodgd_yall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
46. Seeing racism with my own eyes |
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crawfish (252 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
47. Extremist conservatives made me liberal |
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California Griz (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
48. History |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
49. richard nixon |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
50. Contrarianism. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
51. Birth LOL nt |
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blockhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
52. It wasn't by choice. |
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water (504 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
54. You won't gain any supporters... |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 04:51 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. i disagree. i don't see people here "as closed minded" as those at fr |
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water (504 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 04:55 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. It depends on how you define "open-minded"... |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 04:58 PM Response to Reply #56 |
58. ah, rule number 2 for du |
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water (504 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:03 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. I'm not against that rule... |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:09 PM Response to Reply #60 |
62. what other points did i avoid? what are you talking about? |
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water (504 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:10 PM Response to Reply #62 |
64. This: |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:20 PM Response to Reply #64 |
72. you know, i didn't say that--you did. if you don't want to answer the |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 06:11 PM Response to Reply #64 |
82. check this out: maybe this is the answer you're looking for |
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water (504 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 06:35 PM Response to Reply #82 |
84. Huh? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:09 PM Response to Reply #60 |
96. Without valid reliable empirical support for your claim of "most" people being whatever, |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:18 PM Response to Reply #54 |
71. I agree, many people here are very partisan |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:18 PM Response to Reply #71 |
103. "Partisan" has nothing to do with open-minded. n/t |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:18 PM Response to Reply #54 |
102. That's demonstrably untrue. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 12:01 AM Response to Reply #54 |
109. Shedding more sweetness and light, I see. |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:46 AM Response to Reply #54 |
143. Not so. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 09:43 AM Response to Reply #54 |
150. Not true, I am a vet of much debate with right wingers |
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elizfeelinggreat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 11:10 AM Response to Reply #150 |
156. well said, very true |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
57. 1968 - Martin, Bobby, and the Chicago Democratic Convention |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
59. Independent thinking. |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
61. Ronald Fucking Reagan and Margaret Fucking Thatcher. |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:10 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. That's so funny -- I was just about to post "Ronald Fucking Reagan." |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:20 PM Response to Reply #63 |
73. There is a long-standing rumour that when that evil bitch dies... |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
65. It's the way I was raised. |
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MnFats (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
66. Two words: Viet nam. Or one word, Vietnam, depending on the style |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
67. Was always economically leftist |
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balantz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
68. I was born that way. |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
69. I Didn't Choose To Be A Liberal, I Just Happened To Be One By Default Based On Ideals. |
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BlackVelvet04 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
74. I grew up in a very small southern |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
75. Not a liberal, but... |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
76. My dad |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:52 PM Response to Reply #76 |
80. Your dad sounds like my dad. |
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Terran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
77. My father |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
78. Three things. The McCarthy hearings, Civil Rights, and a girl friend being |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
79. GEORGE BUSH JR |
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Dyedinthewoolliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
81. Can't say. |
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ProgressiveFool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
83. I had liberal parents, especially my mother |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
85. I was born a Liberal. Enough said. nt |
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Seashell Eyes (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
86. "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss |
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MedleyMisty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
87. I think the path was set at least by 4 to 6 years old |
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Perry Logan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
88. My father is a New Deal liberal, and there seemed no reason to rebel. |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
89. LSD |
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Strawman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
90. High school debate |
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Prefer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
91. "Ketchup is a vegtable" |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
92. What made me a liberal? Birth/existence/heart/choice |
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davekriss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
93. Birth (n/t) |
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ileus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
94. I grew up in the shadow of a liberal arts college. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 09:51 PM Response to Reply #94 |
95. I was a janitor in one for ten yrs |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
97. The realization that we need to destroy every Rethuglikkan |
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mikus1975 (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
98. Failed GOP policies made me a liberal. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
99. Brought up by fairly far-left people in a far-out community. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
100. An IQ greater than 100. n/t |
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TheFriendlyAnarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
101. DU and Cindy |
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Hoof Hearted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
104. An article I read in the third grade about Harriet Tubman. I was totally inspired. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
105. my christian upbringing and my i.q. |
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Dumak (397 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
106. Empathy, Deductive Reasoning, Less Dependence on the Reptilian Brain |
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Hatchling (968 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
107. Early exposure to the ideas in Science Fiction and Comic Books. |
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Norrin Radd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 07:12 AM Response to Reply #107 |
169. Hey, me too! |
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The Inquisitive (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-23-08 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
108. liberal biased media |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
110. I'm one of those "lunch box liberals" |
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Inquiringmind2 (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 02:41 AM Response to Reply #110 |
113. Why do you believe that? |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 01:20 AM Response to Reply #113 |
165. Interesting. |
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Roxy66 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
112. Ironically....what I learned in Sunday school. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 02:43 AM Response to Original message |
114. Taught by mother to walk in others' shoes. |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
115. I was born this way. |
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left is right (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 06:47 AM Response to Original message |
117. I always point to hearing Joe McCarthy ranting about the Commies and Pinkos |
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patrioticintellect (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
118. I'm the way I am now |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
119. I came of age in the 1960's. |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 08:43 AM Response to Reply #119 |
123. Me too! |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
120. Sunday School lessons on Jesus' teachings |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
121. Life n/t |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
122. At age 7 I saw a lady try to kill herself in downtown Boston |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 01:28 AM Response to Reply #122 |
129. what a horrible thing for you to see when you were a kid. sorry. n/t |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 04:21 AM Response to Reply #129 |
146. thank you for your kind thought |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 11:57 PM Response to Reply #129 |
158. kick |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
125. . |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
126. A combination of a family struggle and Bush. |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
127. anyone else? |
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FreeState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-24-08 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
128. My Mormon mission to Norway n/t |
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Zoigal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 02:01 AM Response to Reply #128 |
130. Always been a liberal... |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 04:20 PM Response to Reply #130 |
131. hooray for some of these grandparents! n/t |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
132. i was born that way ;) n/t |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
133. consciousness. |
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matcom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
134. Ironically, 3 years in the U.S. Army |
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usaftmo (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
135. Seeing the super-wealthy get even richer, |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
136. Parents and larger family |
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rndmprsn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
137. Bush...rise of neo-conservatism in general |
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unapatriciated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-25-08 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
138. born into it |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:23 AM Response to Reply #138 |
139. welcome aboard. your dad sounds like a great guy. n/t |
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Liberal In Texas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
140. Injustice. |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
142. Lapsed Right Wing Christian, me. |
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DiamondJay (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 01:26 AM Response to Original message |
144. common sense |
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Kip Humphrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 03:53 AM Response to Original message |
145. Growing up in Europe, International Herald-Tribune, Kennedy, Civil Rights movement, Viet Nam War... |
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wellst0nev0ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
147. I Got My Right To Vote In The Beginning Of The Bush Era |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
148. Questioning inculcated beliefs, and I was born a democrat. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
149. Having been lucky enough to have a good brain which was then |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
152. I'm for freedom and free will from having experienced abuse. |
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New Earth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
153. I was BORN a liberal |
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elizfeelinggreat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
154. life |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-26-08 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
155. You had a wonderful mother! |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 10:02 PM Response to Reply #155 |
170. thank you. i still do! (smile) n/t |
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warren pease (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
159. Lucky enough to have been born with both a heart and a brain. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
160. having a conscience |
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OnionPatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
162. So many things. |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
163. My Dad was/is a WW2 Vet.. |
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complain jane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
164. Hypocrisy and my family |
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ronnie624 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 03:23 AM Response to Original message |
166. One day, many years ago, when I was in second grade, |
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FunkyLeprechaun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 04:54 AM Response to Original message |
167. Our former representative who was a Republican |
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cyclezealot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-30-08 05:06 AM Response to Original message |
168. Its because I hope I have a sense of history. |
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SayitAintSo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
171. Iran Contra ..... n/t |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
172. My mom made me a Liberal. If you ask nice, she'll make one for you. |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
173. The widening chasm between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' .... |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
174. the fact that I care about people and things other than me, myself and I |
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XOKCowboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
175. Vietnam |
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