I was 16 at the time of the long gas lines and had just received my drivers’ license.
My dad said if I wanted to drive the car, I had to fill it with gas - I well remember those long lines.
I too voted for Cater the first time I voted, I’d just turned 19 and the voting laws had just changed to allow 18 year olds to vote for the first time, lowered from age 21. Never voted Democrat again, and I vote religiously for the smallest of elected offices.
Now the Dems want to lower the age to 16 - Why? Because at that age most of us are stupid and haven’t lived in the real world, paying taxes, etc.
We seem to be about the same age. I am a bit younger of course, hahaha. But seriously, I came from a big family of stupid dims. I remember back to the Nixon/Kennedy race riding in the back seat of my grandfather’s Studebaker Hawk next to a case of half pints of Walker’s Deluxe Whiskey down into an area called Mud Center handing out bottles to everyone of the poor mostly black neighborhood that my grandfather convinced to get into the car and ride over to the polls to cast a vote for Kennedy. It used to be bars and liquor stores were closed during polling hours.
That was my earliest firsthand experience with dim voter fraud. That experience along with all the stories told around the kitchen table I heard as a kid from the adults about “sticking it to the rich” and that our dim politicians must be listened to because they know best. None of what I heard them say about politics made any sense when you compared it to how each one of my family members lived their lives.
Those attitudes just didn’t seem right to me even as a young kid. So when it came time to vote as an 18 year old the only logical choice in my opinion was to vote straight Republican. And since 1972 I have yet to vote for any dim candidate EXCEPT one. I voted for a dim state treasurer each time he ran because he was an honest guy who always did the right thing except switch parties.
I did get close to voting dim twice when I supported George Bush the younger 2 times. I’m not sure why my families dim dogma escaped me, all it did was generate questions no one could or would answer to me that made any sense, even for a young kid. I left my hometown shortly after the Reagan/Carter election and I am pretty positive (haven’t been back since ‘84), that to this day I’m the only right voting member of my family.