I couldn't wait to vote when I turned 21.

[hollysmom]

7. in the 60's we were going to change the world.

It is different now. I think it is all the hyper negative ads. We have the internet and people are trying to use it to spread lies instead of information. even in a few years there was a difference. My parents had us girls first and then a gap of 10 years and they had the boys. (this is just true to my family, can't say it is all) The difference in voting is a lot, My sister and I always vote, the boys not so much. Could have been the years or even that my parents were older and didn't spend the same kind of time with them. Actually the other difference is that we always had dinner at the same time together each night and we had to talk to each other, other meals we could read and have alone. When my brothers were growing up, they had sports different times at night and never ate with us or heard adults talk about politics except on holidays.

I believe people have changed and how we get our information has changed and what is important has changed. One things I remember from when the news was 15 minutes at night, the news department on TV didn't used to have advertising, it was a public service not a profit center.

There a a million little differences,

BTW I remember that election, Colleges were free in California until Reagan. Seems like a lot of things have changed. Kids were the future worth investing in, now they are someone to be afraid of or deadbeats.