Reply #23: you mentioned something

[windbreeze]

that I said once a while back...."my family has, with a few notable exceptions, been apolitical. My parents rarely if ever discussed politics while I was growing up"....exactly...I am going to go so far as to say, I NEVER heard a political word out of either of my parent's mouth...EVER...I was also born, not long after that "day of infamy"....

I wonder if politics were important to them? Did they not realize that whatever happened in DC made a difference in their lives? I know a lot of our parent's generation were uneducated or like my father, went to only the 3rd grade, then had to go to work, to help support 12 siblings...was one of the biggest problems, communications??? radio, local newspapers and party line telephones were about all anyone had...or was it that they were so busy just trying to survive, and didn't have time to be bothered?

I know we did not drive for over an hour to visit relatives w/o taking a suitcase, and staying for a week...my husband went to school in a horse and buggy during the winter...a real sleigh, that literally went over the river and through the woods....he only spoke German(no English) when he started first grade....(a resident of ND) now people travel that far or farther, just to shop, and return home the same day...the sad thing is...the opportunists were alive then, just as they are now...and I would say the pickings were a whole hell of a lot easier because people just didn't know what was going on...that's when the power grab by the elite and those with visions of grandeur started, the dynasties were begun, and once they got a foothold...they didn't back off...the result is what we see today...I never thought I would ever see it as bad as it is now...and I don't know what's going to become of our younger generations...but we should be worried, imo....very worried...
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