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In reply to the discussion: Things that made you a liberal [View all]lark
(22,994 posts)5. My 9th grade Social Studies teacher, Jack S. Lewis, got me started down the path.
He taught us the difference between socialism, communism and democracy and showed us the good and bad of all of them. It truly opened my eyes. He played Joan Baez for us, the first time I had ever heard of any of this stuff, being raised in a fundamentalist Baptist home. He opened my eyes and changed my world. He introduced me to a whole new world that made so much sense to me. Within that year, I was marching against Vietnam, burned my bra, was part of the underground movement to help young women if they wanted abortions which were illegal in my state at the time, and was working with a bunch of others to form strategies to help our older friends avoid the war by getting rejected at the draft offices.
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I hate LOL but I actually did laugh out loud at balancing their check books!
MaryMagdaline
Aug 2018
#15
Yes my SIL grew up in that church. Very open minded and committed to social justice
MaryMagdaline
Aug 2018
#124
My family came from somewhat liberal New England stock, but we moved to a small southern town
dameatball
Aug 2018
#11
Thanks Mary. Mom is gone now but she always loved the Kennedys....:) Have a good day.
dameatball
Aug 2018
#25
Soros is paying me. Ok now that the trolls have been fed. My life's experiences starting in
mulsh
Aug 2018
#22
Wow one thing to talk labor rights ... another thing to go toe to toe with management
MaryMagdaline
Aug 2018
#71
My Christian precepts, coming of political age in 60s, parents' reverence for FDR.
Sneederbunk
Aug 2018
#31
My parents. We're related to one another! Liberalism is in my spirit, I guess.
sprinkleeninow
Aug 2018
#57
Growing up in Dallas when schools were still not desegregated. It struck me as being so wrong.
CTyankee
Aug 2018
#65
Looking back, studying those great Supreme Court decisions from the 50's through the
MaryMagdaline
Aug 2018
#67
I'm the child of Hollywood liberals, anti-war activists, and Catholic Social Justice traditions.
hunter
Aug 2018
#80
My mom's plight as a German refugee and her having her leg amputated as a result of that
gopiscrap
Aug 2018
#97
The Vietnam War. It drag on and on. People wanted to get out most Americans dead
raccoon
Aug 2018
#117
As a white male Christian, what made me a liberal was a childhood witnessing injustice
Aristus
Aug 2018
#120
Yes i remember thinking the evangelicals would all be like Jimmy Carter.
MaryMagdaline
Aug 2018
#131
I was born a socialist. Vote Dem because we'll never have a true Socialist candidate
bif
Aug 2018
#125
I truly believe FDR is as close we will come. He must have been a political genius to
MaryMagdaline
Aug 2018
#127