I am a baby-boomer, with all the positive and negative that that implies. Until the early 90s I was an unmarried, card-carrying feminist, sometimes suffering the indignities of on-the-job sexual harassment, sometimes bitter (no guns, though - euuugh), always voting Democrat, dreaming socialist dreams.
Some realities did penetrate the lefty dogma in my brain — the Iranian Hostage crisis, the 1991 Gulf War (I was extremely taken by our air activities), the utter sense that people like George Will made compared to their opponents, the utter depravity of the Democratic party in general — but not enough to affect my vote. This is important: many Democrats know just who and what they are voting for and do it anyway. I voted twice for Clinton and I voted for worse in CA and NY. And - I badmouthed Rush Limbaugh regularly as only a lefty who never listens to him can. That Feminazi thing — oooh, it rankled!! Sexist, rightwing extremist - boo, hiss!
