Just a quick "survey" type question.............

socialist_n_TN

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Tue Jan-18-11 11:28 AM
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Just a quick "survey" type question.............

Do you think you've gotten MORE radical in the last few years? Or at least, more vocal about it? My answers are yes and yes.

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newtothegame

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Tue Jan-18-11 11:32 AM
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1. Since 2008, I'm a bit disheartened. But overall, since 2000, absolute YES. nt

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socialist_n_TN

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Tue Jan-18-11 12:11 PM
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7. Thanks for the reply.

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peace13

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Tue Jan-18-11 11:32 AM
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2. Until we have our *sses out on the streets there is nothing radical here.

All of my thinking does squat to change our situation and should not be considered radical. I have stood on peace lines and protested Rove when he arrived in town. We stood and protested pickles when she came to promote one of her folks. Really what did it accomplish. For myself, I speak out and stand up and work on campaigns but that is not radical....it is futile.

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socialist_n_TN

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Tue Jan-18-11 12:08 PM
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4. Well agreed although I think that the "streets" .............

are coming. I was mostly thinking about mentally though. The change has to be mental first before it manifests into the physical.

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peace13

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Tue Jan-18-11 02:34 PM
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12. Yes mentally...

I have been on the streets mentally and physically since before the Iraq war. The process is futile in its current structure.

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old mark

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Tue Jan-18-11 11:33 AM
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3. K&R- Certainly not any less...As I get into my mid 60's if anything I am becoming more angry

at how much we have been sold out by our "leaders" of both parties, and by how much of the "American Myth" is an outright lie...the problem is that I am finally in a happy place in life, therefor have much to lose.

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socialist_n_TN

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Tue Jan-18-11 12:10 PM
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6. Right behind you Mark. I'll be 60 this year...........

I don't have a ton of material things to lose, but I DO have more than most in the world. I think the growing anger and disillusionment counts as growing radicalization.

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monmouth

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Tue Jan-18-11 12:08 PM
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5. Since I've retired and the boys aren't around to supervise me, I have

definitely become more vocal. I e-mail the son in Jersey and send him loads of stuff right from here. Of course he's getting old too and enjoys it..LOL... The other son tells me he's a republican just to rile me. I ignore him and put a picture of POTUS in the frame he used to be in. We laugh a lot.

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socialist_n_TN

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Tue Jan-18-11 12:13 PM
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8. Yep, I think that more vocal counts..............

When the kids get on their own, I've seen a LOT of old farts like myself, getting back to where they were 30/40 years ago, BUT without the insecurity and false bravado of SOME of the young. Experience helps.

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kctim

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Tue Jan-18-11 12:15 PM
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9. Yes

the far-left has definitely gotten more radical.

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MilesColtrane

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Tue Jan-18-11 12:48 PM
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10. No

As I grow older I realize more that political revolutions rarely deliver the desired outcomes of those who advocate them.

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Zephie

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Tue Jan-18-11 12:50 PM
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11. Yes and Yes

Edited on Tue Jan-18-11 12:52 PM by Zephie

I entered an arts high school in the mid-2000s. My mind opened up really, really fast. Now I'm more vocal and aware than most people can stand. :rofl: Before that I was really too young to understand, and wasn't exposed to politics often as I was home schooled and my mother hates conflict of any type.

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