When I was young, I was driving in the car with my father, and they were talking about politics on the radio. The words "Democrat" and "Republicans" kept coming up, and I asked my dad what the difference was. His response was, "Well, last year they elected a Democrat. In a few years they'll get sick of him and elect a Republican. Then the same thing will happen and they'll elect a Democrat again." This was my understanding of the U.S. political system until around my senior year in high school, when I discovered that it was a bit more complex than that. As my knowledge of politics grew, however, I came to realize that my dad had pretty much summed things up pretty accurately.
A childhood belief about politics
others believed things like this
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- I used to believe "Pedestrians" was a political party like Democrats or Republicans.— August
- I used to think the Senior Center was where all the high school seniors got to hang out and cut class— Jordan
- I used to believe that all the first names of judges was Justice till I was doing my 4th high school year.— Tafadzwa
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon