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In reply to the discussion: I am an older white woman, a retired teacher. [View all]paleotn
(17,912 posts)....middle aged white guy here, who proudly cast his first vote for Jimmy Carter in '80. We're keeping the board from becoming more progressive? Whaa?! No offense to our younger members, but I doubt many of them have any clue what the Democratic party use to be. Back in the day, folks like Bernie Sanders were mainstream Dems and we were proud to call ourselves Liberals. Many of us still are. On the other hand, I am very much encouraged by the lefty bent of most younger folks and I do hope that our national politics once again swings back to sanity so that they can also experience what we once knew, back when our liberal views were conventional wisdom and guys like Paul Ryan were considered nuts and cranks and few paid any attention to them.