WAYAP: Why are YOU a progressive?
The answer to this is always interesting to me, and, I suspect, a lot of folks, regardless of where you are on the spectrum. I’ll go first.
I believe in protecting our environment b/c my dad drilled it into us when we’d go camping. Leave the campsite better than you found it. I apply that to the environment in general. Oh, and this also influenced me:
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I beleive in everyone getting a fair shake because my mom taught me that “there but for the grace of God go I”. This fairness isn’t complete w/o human rights, workers’ rights, environmental rights, the Bill of Rights…
I guess that’ll do as a start. What got you all progressive-ized? No, seriously, I’m curious.
Whatever happened to environmentally friendly ads like that? Anyone else remember the carpooling ad from the 70s? “Double up every morning…double up every morn, that’s right…double up every day, it’s a better way, we’re gonna have some fun together…
…we’re ridin’ on…”
Why do I still have brain space reserved for that?
Do you remember the ad with the Indian with the tear in his eye ? That was the best.
I became progressive when I was a 7th grader. My Bio teacher just fronted as that and was really an Environmental Studies teacher before there was such a thing back in 1971. We would watch films about the greenhouse effect and listen to Pete Seager songs. He was an inspiration and then, when I was a Junior in HS, my history teacher was a passionate liberal Dem and we studied MLK and JFK and people’s attitude towards Native Americans and Civil rights and that was all she wrote. “We all do better when we all do better”. (I’m quoting someone here, I just don’t know who)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeH2unK2rI
I found it, see if this link works.
aaaawwww. god. im having psa flashbacks (webster, mcruff, after school specials…) wow was that cheesy but effective. oh yeah..
KNOWLEDGE IS HALF THE BATTLE -G.I. Joe
Why am I envisioning Bush as Cobra Commander…
I have to say Transformers taught me the values of honor, valor, truth, and protecting ourselves from the forces of evil and destruction. This is why I picked up the handle ‘Optimusprime’.
Also since I was a kid, I would watch ABC nightly news with Peter Jennings with my dad. God I miss him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1MYY-IQ_yU