Caroline Langston – NPR’s All Things Considered – had a very interesting audio article about how she had shifted her political views over the course of growing wise (AKA ‘older). I agree with a good bit of what she has to say, save the obvs. . .
So, she got me thinking about how I shifted myself into the positions I find myself defending lately…..Here are the top things that have pushed me toward the liberal spot I find myself in nowadays…
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Thirteen Things about YOUR NAME
- My husband was in the military and I teach in a public school. The bumper sticker says it all: “…when schools have all the money they need, and the military has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber…”
- People are trying to overturn Roe vs. Wade; *checking my calendar* what decade is this?
- I have had government cheese and powdered milk.
- I watched my younger brother & sister sit on a Santa’s lap at the union hall one Christmas and get ‘decent’ gifts.
- My mother & father would always vote just to “cancel each other out.”
- Education in a liberal arts college opened my eyes to new types of people I hadn’t even read about in books.
- I read a lot of good books, and believe it or not, watched a lot of good television.
- I voted yes on a union confidence vote when I was anything but confident striking was best for my budget, but felt that solidarity and knew it was right for my conscience.
- My father and mother worked countless part time jobs for things like health benefits.
- I believe in opportunities, for everyone.
- I know that life is fragile and it is our charge to protect the weakest among us, because we are all going to be weak at some time in this life.
- I built houses, boiled water to use, ate whatever they offered me and could squat & hit a dime in a third world country.
- My father made $19,xxx the year that I filled out my financial aid forms for a college that cost just about that much per year. I was accepted & the government paid for it.
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