How many people here on DU were once rethugs/conservatives?

[left on green only]

66. What does DSA stand for? I used to go to SDS meetings

when I attended college in Northern California during the mid to late 1960's. The initials stood for Students for a Democratic Society. At that time, although I claimed to be apolitical, my sense of right and wrong tended to align more with them than with the right wing neo-nazis in Orange County, where I had come from. It has always amazed me how I somehow escaped from behind the Orange Curtain with my mind.

Remembering back, I owe it all to one or two teachers that I had in high school who planted the seeds of enlightened thinking in my mind. And to them I will always be grateful. If any of you are teachers out there, don't ever forget that although it might seem as though all of your hard work is falling upon deaf ears, you are most definitely planting seeds in the minds of your students that may some day sprout and grow.

As you might expect, I did not register to vote immediately when I attained the age of 21. Sometime later when I was ready, it was the Green Party who I chose to align myself with.

It is interesting to me that I have some friends who I have met and correspond with on the internet who live in the Scandinavian countries. They tell me that in Europe, The Green Party is considered to be only slightly to the left of the political middle ground. Imagine that!