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Kaleva

(36,307 posts) Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:13 PM Nov 2019

How different is your political life now compared to what it was in 2009?

Mine hasn't change one bit. I avoid talking politics with friends and family. I vote. I make the occasional call or send the occasional e-mail to my representatives. I contribute to campaigns and I post here at DU.

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How different is your political life now compared to what it was in 2009? (Original Post) Kaleva Nov 2019 OP

I have lost respect for a lot of people Skittles Nov 2019 #1

This, too. Jewls2 Nov 2019 #5

Hardened, more cynical. yonder Nov 2019 #2

I am paying for preventative tests I didn't pay for in 2016. With the older I get, the more Jewls2 Nov 2019 #3

I travel alot for work, meet with lots of people... VarryOn Nov 2019 #4

I no longer feel safe due to my govt. BigmanPigman Nov 2019 #6

I have always been an activist. murielm99 Nov 2019 #7

"I saved a ton of money on Christmas presents this year by discussing politics on Facebook." CrispyQ Nov 2019 #8

Skittles

(153,169 posts)

1. I have lost respect for a lot of people

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:17 PM

Nov 2019

I cannot tolerate anyone who is still a fan of Trump - they make me sick.

Jewls2

(218 posts)

5. This, too.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:23 PM

Nov 2019

yonder

(9,666 posts)

2. Hardened, more cynical.

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:22 PM

Nov 2019

Jewls2

(218 posts)

3. I am paying for preventative tests I didn't pay for in 2016. With the older I get, the more

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:23 PM

Nov 2019

desperate I am becoming pertaining to "political life". I hate to imagine what will happen if any of the preventative tests turn things up.

VarryOn

(2,343 posts)

4. I travel alot for work, meet with lots of people...

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:23 PM

Nov 2019

There's defintely more reticence on politics, myself included. I'm especially restrained if I dont know the other people well.

BigmanPigman

(51,608 posts)

6. I no longer feel safe due to my govt.

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:55 PM

Nov 2019

I hated the Bushes. That was nothing compared to the HATE HATE HATE I have for this asshole and his enablers.

murielm99

(30,745 posts)

7. I have always been an activist.

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:55 PM

Nov 2019

Now I am as active as I was then. I was a county party chair then. I still work just as hard to get Democrats elected.

CrispyQ

(36,478 posts)

8. "I saved a ton of money on Christmas presents this year by discussing politics on Facebook."

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 05:32 PM

Nov 2019

I saw that today on FB.

Still, I have lost all respect for people I know who still identify as republican. This is gonna leave a mark. I will never look at them the same. There is not one redeeming quality about today's republican party & that is fact. I'm not rude to republicans I know, but I don't seek them out either.

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