A comment on your take on Wednesday’s Weeds. I was graduated from high school in the 70’s. So I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. Also the 80’s. Um, and the 90’s, too. It also appears that I have gotten a 21 year headstart on the entire 2000’s. I’m not locked into: 1) crime is sooo bad. 2) Inflation?! Oh no, we are all going to die pushing wheelbarrows of cash to the store. 3) The government can’t do anything right.
I did at times think that crime was insane and would never get better (duh, it did.) I lived through the 1977-1981 inflationary period. Yes, it sucked, but things changed. My opinion on whether the government can do anything right has waxed and waned, depending what has been going on.
It isn’t the time period that creates the thinking, it is the individual. After all this time growing up, that is the best I can do. ;)
One of the hard things about writing about a generation that is still largely alive, is that there are outliers, and those outliers still read! I always appreciate your outlook, as a loyal reader, but at the same time, although you are indeed part of my target audience, you’re mostly not a member of the demographic I’m trying to speak about.
That does give me pause to ask, though: What is your political story? IE, have you always been a liberal and/or Democrat? If so, how and where? If not, what changed, and when?
I registered as an Independent as soon as I was eligible to vote. My dad was with me and he asked how I registered. When I told him, he said, "OK."
My parents were Democrats (conservative, at that time.) However, they raised us to look at or question the choices for an office. They voted split tickets, usually, and encouraged us to not lock into a party.
I voted split tickets, especially at the local level. Mostly, I voted Democrat at the federal level. At this time, I definitely lean left. However, I voted for John Anderson way back in the day. He was a renegade Republican who ran as an Independent.
I have been disappointed in many of the candidates and even the winners of Presidential elections, both sides. On the whole though, the Democrats at least give lip service to helping people.
I think I have gotten more liberal socially as I have aged. Some of that may be due to being exposed to my niece and nephew as they grew up with a mixture of friends and in a somewhat different culture than when I was young.
I also had an aha! moment many years back when an article talked about Hispanic people in the US were going to out-number white people and yada yada, how could they be trusted, yada yada they weren't Americans or if they were citizens they didn't have the same culture. The penny dropped and I realized that the article was trying to scare me. That pissed me off and I haven't forgotten it, nor forgiven it.
Immigrants are people, if we welcome them, they will assimilate; and if they give us a little something of theirs, that isn't bad. I don't remember where I read it or who wrote it, but I remember it was mostly nonsense.
Fiscally, I think the Republicans are nuts. So are the Democrats, a bit, for different reasons. I never took economics, but the idea that an unregulated marketplace will self-correct for any and all problems is nuts. But, you can't regulate every last, little thing either. We need better economists doing the talking and we need to get over the soundbites, already. You asked, I answered. Good night, keep writing.
A comment on your take on Wednesday’s Weeds. I was graduated from high school in the 70’s. So I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. Also the 80’s. Um, and the 90’s, too. It also appears that I have gotten a 21 year headstart on the entire 2000’s. I’m not locked into: 1) crime is sooo bad. 2) Inflation?! Oh no, we are all going to die pushing wheelbarrows of cash to the store. 3) The government can’t do anything right.
I did at times think that crime was insane and would never get better (duh, it did.) I lived through the 1977-1981 inflationary period. Yes, it sucked, but things changed. My opinion on whether the government can do anything right has waxed and waned, depending what has been going on.
It isn’t the time period that creates the thinking, it is the individual. After all this time growing up, that is the best I can do. ;)
One of the hard things about writing about a generation that is still largely alive, is that there are outliers, and those outliers still read! I always appreciate your outlook, as a loyal reader, but at the same time, although you are indeed part of my target audience, you’re mostly not a member of the demographic I’m trying to speak about.
That does give me pause to ask, though: What is your political story? IE, have you always been a liberal and/or Democrat? If so, how and where? If not, what changed, and when?
I registered as an Independent as soon as I was eligible to vote. My dad was with me and he asked how I registered. When I told him, he said, "OK."
My parents were Democrats (conservative, at that time.) However, they raised us to look at or question the choices for an office. They voted split tickets, usually, and encouraged us to not lock into a party.
I voted split tickets, especially at the local level. Mostly, I voted Democrat at the federal level. At this time, I definitely lean left. However, I voted for John Anderson way back in the day. He was a renegade Republican who ran as an Independent.
I have been disappointed in many of the candidates and even the winners of Presidential elections, both sides. On the whole though, the Democrats at least give lip service to helping people.
I think I have gotten more liberal socially as I have aged. Some of that may be due to being exposed to my niece and nephew as they grew up with a mixture of friends and in a somewhat different culture than when I was young.
I also had an aha! moment many years back when an article talked about Hispanic people in the US were going to out-number white people and yada yada, how could they be trusted, yada yada they weren't Americans or if they were citizens they didn't have the same culture. The penny dropped and I realized that the article was trying to scare me. That pissed me off and I haven't forgotten it, nor forgiven it.
Immigrants are people, if we welcome them, they will assimilate; and if they give us a little something of theirs, that isn't bad. I don't remember where I read it or who wrote it, but I remember it was mostly nonsense.
Fiscally, I think the Republicans are nuts. So are the Democrats, a bit, for different reasons. I never took economics, but the idea that an unregulated marketplace will self-correct for any and all problems is nuts. But, you can't regulate every last, little thing either. We need better economists doing the talking and we need to get over the soundbites, already. You asked, I answered. Good night, keep writing.