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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: research1234 who wrote (429430)2/7/2020 4:40:05 PM
From: Alex MG  Read Replies (1) of 540877
 
ohhhh, simple arithmetic... aka science

I never voted either when I was young.

Being born in 1961 I wasn't legally of age to vote until 1979. (and before that the age was 21... you are old enough to be sent to war but you can't vote)

My focus was making a living right out of high school, having to get a job because just needed to support myself.

I didn't get politically interested until the 1990s, but by then just too busy to have a real interest. Then late 90s with internet, I began to read more. And the BOOM 9/11. I thought after Vietnam we were done with stupid counterproductive wars.

As late as early 2003 I didn't really think we would send ground troops into Iraq and try to magically turn it into a thriving democracy while pointing guns in their faces.

Wrong.
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