It occurs to me that a person’s political orientation is not so much a choice as it is bequeathed by our origins. As I review my own history, I see that I could really be nothing else but what is now called a “liberal.” I do not proclaim this either with pride or humility, but rather as a simple fact that I believe makes me no better or worse than anybody else.
I am a baby boomer, raised in a woman-led home with an absentee father who was frequently incarcerated, perpetually sought by some law enforcement entity somewhere, most often by the FBI. It was a time of massive cultural shift. I came of age during the youth rebellion/hippie movement of the ’60s, and thus I was aligning with my peers, while also unconsciously choosing who my peers would be. Which is to say, not all young people of the ’60s automatically aligned with the rebellion.
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