I came of political age in 1968 -- I turned 17 that June. I took it all in but didn't know much of the backstory. It helps explain why I had very little to do with electoral politics until 2016. (Other factors: until 1985 I lived mostly in D.C., where you couldn't vote for much of anything, and since I was a feminist, there wasn't much t…
I came of political age in 1968 -- I turned 17 that June. I took it all in but didn't know much of the backstory. It helps explain why I had very little to do with electoral politics until 2016. (Other factors: until 1985 I lived mostly in D.C., where you couldn't vote for much of anything, and since I was a feminist, there wasn't much to vote for till the '90s. Bill Clinton did a lot to sour me on the Democrats, and by then of course the Republicans were unspeakable.)
I came of political age in 1968 -- I turned 17 that June. I took it all in but didn't know much of the backstory. It helps explain why I had very little to do with electoral politics until 2016. (Other factors: until 1985 I lived mostly in D.C., where you couldn't vote for much of anything, and since I was a feminist, there wasn't much to vote for till the '90s. Bill Clinton did a lot to sour me on the Democrats, and by then of course the Republicans were unspeakable.)