when did your political awakening happen?

[smirkymonkey]

64. Little by little.

My neighbors and best friends had a father who was a Unitarian Minister and many friends who were socially liberal and very active. I went to Unitarian Sunday School and often attended services (because I asked my parents if I could. I liked it). My family was loosely Catholic on one side and Episcopalian on the other, but not rigidly religious, so they let me go.

They were the people who gave me my first awareness of social injustice and a political consciousness. I immediately gravitated toward their leftist sensibilities to my parent's dismay, but as a child, I was hardly a political threat, so they didn't really take it seriously.

It wasn't until college when I took a course in government from a socialist professor that I really started to wake up and wanted to register as a socialist. My republican father persuaded me against it, but allowed me to register as a Democrat. I have been one ever since. I have always had strong Democratic views, but the fire was not really lit under me until the George W. Bush years, when I felt like I could not really take it anymore. I could not keep my mouth shut any longer.

That was when I found DU and have only become more fiercely liberal since then. What we are going through now is the biggest nightmare politically that I have ever experienced and I am determined to see this bastard impeached, imprisoned and to go down in history as the worst person to have ever have been inflicted upon the American public.

I never thought it could ever get this bad, but I really hope this is the end of the Trump nightmare. Enough is enough. We can't survive much more of this.