TheEternalPessimist said:
jlAG97 said:
not a lot of hope coming in the future though.
People become more conservative the older they get.
Gen-X was decisively for Clinton in 96, Gore in 2000, and Kerry in 2004. That ship has sailed..... clearly.
I call BS on this. That was the freaking Boomers who loved those morons. They got all mushy hearing Fleetwood Mac songs at the '92 Dem Convention and were all about the feels. Boomers had everything handed to them but spent all their time whining about how hard their life was and how their parents sucked until they got all mushy later in life and wanted to celebrate them. Bunch of narcissists who loved to get nostalgic about the '60s and always trying to find themselves. Spit on my Dad when he got back from 'Nam. Most or our parents were Silent Gen who were kids during the Depression and WWII and didn't know the prosperity the Boomers had.
Gen Xers didn't want government to be their Daddy, they wanted to be left the hell alone and get to work and make money. We loved our country and were proud to be Americans. We grew up on Schoolhouse Rock and Saturday morning cartoons and playing outside until dark. We were taught that America was a Melting Pot where everyone came from different cultures but we were all Americans. Did so many things growing up that would freaking end you now I can't even count and I wasn't even a bad boy kid. We got into fights at school all the time but you would NEVER think of hitting a teacher or really even talking back to one. You feared the teacher calling your parents who would whoop your ass instead of "My perfect little snowflake was innocent and YOU are the problem". I remember going on road trips with only a book if I was lucky and memorizing the map because I was bored, just happy to get my parents to crack the window while they smoked cigarettes. We told so many jokes that you can't even think about now and the concept of political correctness or triggering never entered the picture. Wasn't always easy but we had fun though. The closest most of my friends came to being Democrats was voting for Perot though there were always some oddballs that went to the Dark Side.
I do agree the late Boomers were more like Gen X, essentially they grew up after the '60s were over and generally weren't as narcissistic.
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan