The political and the personal: Bob and Heather reveal where they got their political values
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Jun 3 • 22M
The political and the personal: Bob and Heather reveal where they got their political values
Saturday coffee klatch with Heather Lofthouse
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Robert Reich
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Lots of news this week, but we thought it a good time to push the pause button for a moment. We get so much mail from so many of you who are curious about, well, us — especially how we got to political views and values we have, and how our stories compare to yours. So we thought we’d spend today’s klatch on the personal and political.
Among the issues we talk about are:
— Our political “awakenings.” What were the triggers and circumstances?
— How our political views have evolved.
— How and why we got into the work we’re now doing.
— What we’d tell a young person today who wants to make a difference, and how it’s different from what we were told.
The political and the personal: Bob and Heather reveal where they got their political values
My mother used to say:
Dems: tax the rich, feed the poor.
REpubs: tax the poor, feed the rich....
She is deceased but still right!!
I didn't go college until I was 48 years old, and was awarded by Ph.D. at 59. Nevertheless, I spent my life reading, pursuing ideas and ideals, listening and learning. I worked from the age of 16, was flighty, temperamental, and everything that is considered unreliable in our culture. I just spent 15 years caring for my Vietnam Veteran husband whose Parkinson's Disease (and later Lewy Body Dementia) stemmed from his war service. Where do people get their sense of what's right and wrong? I don't know. I can only speak to my life.