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In reply to the discussion: Yes DU trends to an older audience. [View all]hunter
(38,372 posts)I personally know left wing "hippie" anti-war activists who turned into Republicans and later voted for Trump.
These same sorts of people no doubt existed in the early days of the Nazi Party, people who looked the other way as the atrocities accelerated.
I also know that the vast majority of assholes who made my life miserable in high school are still assholes, and in most cases Trump voting assholes, but there are also a few mystic crystal people, self-proclaimed "progressives" (no offense, I've called myself that too), and Evangelical Christians who are assholes too, all of them fucking idiots who would have happily supported Hitler until the Nazi Party turned on them too.
My first serious political experience, aside from street demonstrations and picket lines with my pacifist union worker parents, and my radical feminist mom, was campaigning for Jimmy Carter.
Yes, I am a Boomer.