I was born in ‘87. I’m fortunate that I was able to educate myself while I was home during most of high school, as I was too ill to attend and the school did not see fit to assign me a tutor. If they had, I might have a slightly different viewpoint.
Understanding why letting someone else take the reins is a bad idea doesn’t hit the young unless they face hardship and realize that fairness does not exist. It hit me young, and younger than many.
After finding out about my illness, I very quickly broadened my political views, and came to distrust my history teacher. She didn’t teach us much of substance. Just, “Memorize these dates and enough to pass the Constitution test,” while showing Michael Moore films as documentaries. I’m pretty sure she was glad that I was virtually never in class, because I attempts to counter her when I was.
*Attempted
Apologies. Auto-correct.
No problem and congratulations on becoming educated. I have about 40 years on you and, having visited East Berlin in ‘62 as a 13 year old certainly opened my eyes. From my tag line you can see I joined the Navy in ‘67 and did one enlistment. I even got my “Cold War Certificate” signed by D. Rumsfeld. :-)
Welcome to FR.