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Re: What made
« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2010, 10:23:01 PM »
Really, for a thinking person there isn't much choice.  Reality works one way:  Recognize what is real, integrate that reality into living life.

The DUmmy way is to make up a wishlist of what reality should be and either sit around and demand others produce that version of reality for them or gain power and impose the desired reality on the rest of us.  It simply isn't tenable for the long term.  Sadly, most DUmmies only care about the short term.
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Re: What made
« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2010, 10:40:03 PM »
I grew up in Detroit.  My parents were Democrats and dad was a cop.  However, my neighbors were more conservative and definitely made more sense of what I saw going on than the folks did.

I became strongly independent as a person and the Democratic party doesn't seem to foster that.  Primarily the social policies of the Dems are what I object to most.
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Re: What made
« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2010, 10:51:25 PM »
Quote from: BEG on October 04, 2010, 10:14:03 PM
It's good to hear they aren't as angry. So you are a part of the militant Nazi breastfeeding and cloth diaper mob?   :p

hah!  Not exactly.  They've moved past all that and now we are all united against the teenagers. My teenager is perfect of course, but it's interesting to hear about the problems others are having and how they deal with it.   :p
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Re: What made
« Reply #28 on: October 05, 2010, 10:43:34 AM »
Quote from: longview on October 04, 2010, 10:40:03 PM
I grew up in Detroit.  My parents were Democrats and dad was a cop.  However, my neighbors were more conservative and definitely made more sense of what I saw going on than the folks did.

I became strongly independent as a person and the Democratic party doesn't seem to foster that.  Primarily the social policies of the Dems are what I object to most.

Ditto about Detroit (well, the suburbs to be precise). But the Democrat way was THE way, that is until the 1968 election. I remember how my mother would advocate George Wallace, but the truth is, she was a true-blue, dyed-in-the-wool racist. No joke.

Stayed sorta apolitical until about one-quarter of my way through my military career when I woke up and saw just completely ate up Jimmy Carter was. Reagan came along and things got much better for us active-duty types. Right along in there I saw first hand the inefficiencies and problems that confound ANY large-scale bureaucracy, so opining for a smaller government with a much smaller footprint in our lives is the right way to go.
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Re: What made
« Reply #29 on: October 05, 2010, 04:53:28 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 05, 2010, 10:43:34 AM
Ditto about Detroit (well, the suburbs to be precise). But the Democrat way was THE way, that is until the 1968 election. I remember how my mother would advocate George Wallace, but the truth is, she was a true-blue, dyed-in-the-wool racist. No joke.

Stayed sorta apolitical until about one-quarter of my way through my military career when I woke up and saw just completely ate up Jimmy Carter was. Reagan came along and things got much better for us active-duty types. Right along in there I saw first hand the inefficiencies and problems that confound ANY large-scale bureaucracy, so opining for a smaller government with a much smaller footprint in our lives is the right way to go.

I wonder if ALL Navy Nukes are as F'ed up as Carter ?!?!?!?!?  :popcorn:
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Re: What made
« Reply #30 on: October 05, 2010, 07:56:12 PM »
I grew up in Boston. My parents were both Democrats. That was the way I was brought up. Once I figured out what the lefties and their lefty ways were, I found myself not on the same page as them. Then, after 9/11 and all the terror stuff, I became more and more patriotic and more conservative.  :cheersmate:
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Re: What made
« Reply #31 on: October 06, 2010, 08:53:57 AM »
Strong democratic family however, I grew up, got a job, got married, had Baby Girl, became responsible, got divorced, raised BG myself ..  life and the realities of life made me.  I began seeing what the long term consequences the peace love dove movement were causing and noticing the hypocracy of the left .... all talk and no real beneficial action. ... oh, and I read the Communist Manifesto.
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Re: What made
« Reply #32 on: October 06, 2010, 03:46:51 PM »
Quote from: Tnafbrat on October 06, 2010, 08:53:57 AM
Strong democratic family however, I grew up, got a job, got married, had Baby Girl, became responsible, got divorced, raised BG myself ..  life and the realities of life made me.  I began seeing what the long term consequences the peace love dove movement were causing and noticing the hypocracy of the left .... all talk and no real beneficial action. ... oh, and I read the Communist Manifesto.

Your dad was career AF and a Democrat?  :o
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Re: What made
« Reply #33 on: October 06, 2010, 04:10:59 PM »
Quote from: debk on October 06, 2010, 03:46:51 PM
Your dad was career AF and a Democrat?  :o

Lots of military folks are Dems, especially parents that are (were) the age of ours. Of course, those were the old fashioned Democrats vs today's "Progressives".
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Re: What made
« Reply #34 on: October 06, 2010, 06:15:23 PM »
Quote from: Thor on October 06, 2010, 04:10:59 PM
Lots of military folks are Dems, especially parents that are (were) the age of ours. Of course, those were the old fashioned Democrats vs today's "Progressives".

My very conservative grandfather was a democrat. Times have changed for sure. Today he'd be a republican. Hardcore.
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Re: What made
« Reply #35 on: October 06, 2010, 08:18:26 PM »
Quote from: soleil on October 06, 2010, 06:15:23 PM
My very conservative grandfather was a democrat. Times have changed for sure. Today he'd be a republican. Hardcore.

My very conservative Grandfather (who retired as the Chief of Urology from the Biloxi VA) was also a democrat and a smoker and a Methodist.  When he decided to marry my Grandmother, he became a Republican non-smoking Baptist.  My G-Mom musta been pretty hawt back in the day. 
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Re: What made
« Reply #36 on: October 06, 2010, 08:54:49 PM »
I started paying attention...
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Re: What made
« Reply #37 on: October 06, 2010, 08:59:16 PM »
Growing up neither of my parents were intrested in politics. My dad was in the military so he accepted who was the POTUS as his boss. My mom never cared until this last election and that is because I told her she needed to wake up and pay attention to what is happening to our country
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Re: What made
« Reply #38 on: October 07, 2010, 08:31:51 AM »
Quote from: debk on October 06, 2010, 03:46:51 PM
Your dad was career AF and a Democrat?  :o

Yeah gal, he was, but he was OLD style democrat ... my mom's side though ....whew!  heavy heavy union, die hard socialist with mygeneration being libby libs ... as in "we all breath the same air".  My brother, the youngun's and I are the "black sheep".  :naughty:  Baby Girl is a conservative republican at heart, but she hasn't quite worked out how that can work and still be "tolerant" and kind ... (her daddy is a lib)  but she's learning and finding that the liberal version of tolerance isn't all it's cracked up to be  :cheersmate:
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