I find it hard to believe that many 18 to 29 year olds would vote rep.

Sea Speed said:

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I find it hard to believe that many 18 to 29 year olds would vote rep.

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I did.

Sea Speed said:

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I have no idea what your voting habits 20+ years ago has to do with voting habits of 18-29 year olds today.

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Okay, fair enough, my niece and nephew did. There are some kids with brains.

CDUB98 said:

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Gex-X just puts our fingers in the air like we just don't care.

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Word up

annie88 said:

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We are definitely the best generation since the greatest generation.

Because we were raised to think for ourselves, work hard, don't whine, don't make excuses, earn what you get, learn from your mistakes and do things for ourselves. To name a few. It didn't mean we occasionally didn't get help, we did at times but we picked ourselves back up when we failed.

We stayed out till the street lights came on, we drank out of garden hoses, we played outside.

We were not in the everyone gets a trophy or ribbon generation. You either made the team or you didn't. You either made the grade or you didn't. We weren't coddled, but we were loved.

Remember when you had those group projects in school? I always hated that. We just had a very entrepreneurial do-it-ourselves attitude. I still do.

My parents were a little older, they were not boomers, they were the generation ahead of that, so I learned a lot from them.

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pretty much sums it up. one thing you left off as a fellow gen Xer is we took care of ourselves when we got home from school. latch key kids. that's how i learned to cook

Clob94 said:

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annie88 said:

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We are definitely the best generation since the greatest generation.

Because we were raised to think for ourselves, work hard, don't whine, don't make excuses, earn what you get, learn from your mistakes and do things for ourselves. To name a few. It didn't mean we occasionally didn't get help, we did at times but we picked ourselves back up when we failed.

We stayed out till the street lights came on, we drank out of garden hoses, we played outside.

We were not in the everyone gets a trophy or ribbon generation. You either made the team or you didn't. You either made the grade or you didn't. We weren't coddled, but we were loved.

Remember when you had those group projects in school? I always hated that. We just had a very entrepreneurial do-it-ourselves attitude. I still do.

My parents were a little older they were not boomers they were the generation ahead of that, so I learned a lot from them.

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We were the first latch key kids.

We had to be more self reliant, more responsible and less tolerant of bull ****. Both our parents worked and we were left at home during the summer time to fend for ourselves.
Gen X DID grow up with SOME training wheels, but we wanted our independence early. We wanted that drivers license. We wanted to turn 21 so we could party. We wanted to win when we played games. We saw a 2nd place trophy as the losers trophy.

Then what did Gen X do?

Started baby proofing the house, nerfing life, and buying bicycle helmets for our kids to use during masturbation.

Ya--- we were awesome-- until those kids came around.

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Not my kids, certainly kept them safer and tried to have them learn from my mistakes but my boys are very self reliant and more mature than a lot of the adults I know.

Sazerac said:

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Gen X is right before the university brainwashing started

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We didn't even have the "diversity" class requirements at Texas as of 1995. It was the 3 Rs.

Clob94 said:

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annie88 said:

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We are definitely the best generation since the greatest generation.

Because we were raised to think for ourselves, work hard, don't whine, don't make excuses, earn what you get, learn from your mistakes and do things for ourselves. To name a few. It didn't mean we occasionally didn't get help, we did at times but we picked ourselves back up when we failed.

We stayed out till the street lights came on, we drank out of garden hoses, we played outside.

We were not in the everyone gets a trophy or ribbon generation. You either made the team or you didn't. You either made the grade or you didn't. We weren't coddled, but we were loved.

Remember when you had those group projects in school? I always hated that. We just had a very entrepreneurial do-it-ourselves attitude. I still do.

My parents were a little older they were not boomers they were the generation ahead of that, so I learned a lot from them.

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We were the first latch key kids.

We had to be more self reliant, more responsible and less tolerant of bull ****. Both our parents worked and we were left at home during the summer time to fend for ourselves.
Gen X DID grow up with SOME training wheels, but we wanted our independence early. We wanted that drivers license. We wanted to turn 21 so we could party. We wanted to win when we played games. We saw a 2nd place trophy as the losers trophy.

Then what did Gen X do?

Started baby proofing the house, nerfing life, and buying bicycle helmets for our kids to use during masturbation.

Ya--- we were awesome-- until those kids came around.

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You're not wrong. However most of my friends are normal people they raise their children better, more like us, but you're right. And I don't understand it. We were not raised like that.

I think some of it came from a lot of people wanted to be friends with their children instead of being the parent.

It astonishes me how much kids in college now text their parents during the day. When we were off at school, we were off at school and you only called maybe once a week because of long distance.

Cell phones, social media have changed a big part of it. But I think it just went into hyper zone wanting your children to have more than you did.

With us, our parents truly didn't have a lot and worked their way up and made our lives better. Many of us because of that started out in a better place after college even though we still had entry level jobs and small apartments and used furniture and stuff when we started where is the kids now have brand new things in college.

But you're not wrong.

Maybe the whole of generation X can redeem themselves by getting this back on track.

jlAG97 said:

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not a lot of hope coming in the future though.

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The only hope is they'll grow up, make some money, start raising families and start hating taxes

pretty much sums it up. one thing you left off as a fellow gen Xer is we took care of ourselves when we got home from school. latch key kids. that's how i learned to cook

Many of our generation did. I had a stay at home mother so I didn't experience that exactly. but still had a lot of independence.

Slyfox07 said:

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jlAG97 said:

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not a lot of hope coming in the future though.

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The only hope is they'll grow up, make some money, start raising families and start hating taxes

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This is a big part of it. Most of these kids are that are the most outspoken and saying the stupidest things have never had to take care of themselves.

Mommy and daddy have paid for everything and even if they are poor they still have not had to pay bills and rent a home. You see so many more kids living at home till almost 30 now which is just bizarre to me.

They can sit there and scream Socialism and everybody share and capitalism is evil, they don't really know what they're talking about. Even these climate idiots gluing themselves to things and pouring soup on photos are literally covered in items made from fossil fuels out there being idiots because Democrats have convinced him that the world is going to end in five years. It's not. There's nothing wrong with fossil fuels.

And a lot of that you can blame on social media.

They don't want to grow up.

I'd be curious to see the 30-44 age group broken down into a few buckets. I have always believed that my age group (I turn 39 this year) fits more closely with Gen X than millennials and the world went to **** a few years after my generation. It could also be that growing up in rural Texas put me a few years behind generationally speaking.

TheEternalPessimist said:

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jlAG97 said:

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not a lot of hope coming in the future though.

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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.

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I must have be an outlier then. I didn't vote for any of those clowns.

ETA: Oh yeah. Obligatory: John Kerry once served in Vietnam

So this is all Gen X's fault?

TheEternalPessimist said:

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jlAG97 said:

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not a lot of hope coming in the future though.

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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.

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This. Gen-X acting like they're special in any way is rich

jlAG97 said:

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not a lot of hope coming in the future though.

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outside of gender and faith based stuff, i keep my politics away from my kids. every election i've explained why people would vote for Biden or Beto and that they have good reasons.

They're both based AF despite my best efforts.

Bring back flannel, Baby doll dresses, and Doc Martins

Also Pearl Jam rules.

TheEternalPessimist said:

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jlAG97 said:

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not a lot of hope coming in the future though.

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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.

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We were?

Guess it depended on who you were hanging with but most all of my friends were Republicans. Wow, that's interesting to know. I mean I guess obviously since Clinton did win twice.

Of course my low point was when I voted for Obama in 2008. I still can't quite explain that except for I didn't like John McCain and I thought how bad could Obama be. I freaky learned my lesson. Makes me sick to think about it. Not that my one vote made the difference, but if there were a lot of those out there being an idiot like me then shame on us.

AgBQ-00 said:

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I think Clay is correct in his assessment. We were raised in the belief that the color of someone's skin did not determine that person's ability or character. So the trotting out of rebranded segregation and racism is a non-starter for us Gen-Xers. We also despise people trying to control us and force us into compliance. We are inclined to an eff-you attitude when it comes to those of totalitarian bent.

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This.

Captain Pablo said:

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Generation of Ronald Reagan, John Hughes, and Depeche Mode

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That is a damn fine list.