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I have recollections of "I like Ike", Kennedy-Nixon debate, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK assassination, RFK, MLK, forced conscription into the military 1968.
Now, after all that, and 40+ years of indignity in the workplace, I face an uncertain end to my travels as the political party I supported, my Father supported, and his Father before him, has sold out to the Corporate machine.
There is no going back to the Democrats. They have no spine, the Republicans, no soul.
I'm a blue collar leftist, labor activist, environmentalist, and general all around freak of nature deposited on the streets of America after the Vietnam War like so many others of my age. In 1973 it was rare to meet someone your age who was not a veteran finally back in the "World." Now look at that world.