In our previous episode, our impressionable young protagonist was a high school student in the early seventies. This was not only a time of great social and political upheaval, it was also a time during which the effects of that turmoil split American society, more starkly than at any time since the Civil War, into [...]
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How Did I Get To Be a Liberal, Lefty, Commie, Pinko In a Conservative America? (Chapter 2)
Posted in Personal Narrative, Politics, tagged assassination, conservative, history, Kent State, liberal, Martin Luther King, MLK, Nixon, personal, politics, power, RFK, seventies, Vietnam War, Watergate, writing on October 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
How Did I Get To Be a Liberal, Lefty, Commie, Pinko In a Conservative America? (Chapter 1)
Posted in Personal Narrative, Politics, tagged assassination, conservative, history, Kent State, leftist, liberal, MLK, Nixon, personal, politics, RFK, seventies, sixties, Vietnam War, Watergate on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have a running political discussion on Facebook with a friend, Don, who’s about as far from my point of view as it’s possible to be. He’s ultra-conservative, and I’m…well…not. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone whose political views are as far left as mine. The remarkable thing about our discussions is [...]
