All my life I have loved to learn, to read about history and the stories of magic and legend that are hidden there. It wasn't until middle school that I started to understand how our modern world work, or rather didn't work. My older brother was political and dedicated to the Democratic cause. Because of that my early political education was colored a deep shade of blue. In 2008 I was an 8th grader and my English teacher assigned a lot of essays. For the media assignment I wrote about political bias on TV and radio, for the political essay I researched the Patriot Act. My political identity was forming as I listened to the candidates and for the first time in my life I understood that the promises they made were not the same as the changes they made.
When you wind the clock back 7 years from that election you arrive in pre 9-11 America. We as a nation believed that we were unsinkable, similar to the boastful builders of the Titanic.
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