Name: An Ex-Republican & An Ex-Democrat Answer 10 Questions
Uploaded: 2020-04-28T02:20:54.000Z
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I grew up in Northern Indiana, on the outskirts of a city,

30 minutes away from the Amish, from Shipshewana.

so I grew up in a small town in the Midwest.

- So I grew up an island north of Seattle,

our main town, Langley, is about two streets.

so I have a little bit different background.

I grew up with lots of nature and the radio station.

When did you first learn what politics were?

from my dad when I was like six or seven years old,

He would make like, the little one line, punch line jokes,

And I started learning like, oh, this will be funny,

and that's side's bad, and this side's good.

Like, my dad would never say it that plainly,

but you could tell from reading between the lines.

maybe eight years old and 9/11 had just happened,

we were stopping off at a fast food place,

and we walk in, and there was a news reporter there.

And they were like, "How do you feel about this?"

'cause my dad had made a joke about Cuba.

"that the president is going to invade Iraq.

and I had no idea, I was like eight years old.

And so of course, they put my picture and that quote,

on the front page of our local newspaper.

- So when I was younger, I really enjoyed

and totally digging through all of her artifacts.

Her pins, buttons, travel items, all sorts of things.

how could my loving, wonderful, artistic grandmother,

it feels like you would be absolutely alienated

It was that little inkling when I was younger,

that now has blossomed into what I know now.

Which is that, there's something very different

- What was your political affiliation growing up?

I would say up until the age of 12, I had this strong...

for the McCain-Palin election, all over my notebooks.

Everyone around me where I was growing up,

so we were all kind of like, in that middle zone,

and we're fed all these things by the media

about Republicans, so it feels not cool to be that way.

I think that I changed my mind through teenage years

maturing, getting out of my bubble, college moving.

and it was more so like, a moral standpoint.

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An Ex-Republican & An Ex-Democrat Answer 10 Questions

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