For most of my life, I thought elections didn’t matter. Who became president, my U.S. Senator, House member or governor, made little difference. It had almost no effect on my livelihood, where I chose to live, what I said or did, or whom I associated with. Even though I followed politics, the subject rarely came up. I often didn’t know or care who, among my family and friends, was liberal or conservative. I couldn’t even spell libertarian, let alone define it. And I thought a socialist was…
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