Posted on 06/12/2004 2:10:19 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
A funny thing happened during the Reagan era. Young people became Republicans. Not all of them, of course, but a plurality. It was strange. After all, everyone knows you're supposed to be liberal and idealistic when you're young. You're supposed to vote for people like Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale. Yeah, right.
(Excerpt) Read more at dynamist.com ...
published author -- so much for spell checker!! LOL
Can I get a sticker or T shirt with that on it?
That's about the way I remember it, being a 70s child.
The policies Nixon and Ford tried didn't work, and Carter told us that was just the way the world was. We should get over our selfishness, our materialism, and make do with less. The problems of the world were our fault, a sign of our fallen nature, as individuals and a nation.
Remember Carter's 'sweater' campaign when we all should just turn the thermostat down and wear sweaters?
I'm glad you posted this article. I've been writing about the exact same thing for the past few days and have been wondering if anyone else was thinking and feeling the same.
Add me to the list.
I was 10 years when Reagan became president. Most of us really loved the president. He was such a breath of fresh air (even for a child) after 4 years of Carter. Kids pick up more on attitudes and character than mumbo-jumbo. He maed us feel safe and secure and I thank him a lot for that.
Just remember that we have new trials now that in many ways are scarier than anything that we have faced before. The Soviets were wrong but they were not crazy. The Islamofacists are both. Never befor have we needed DECESIVE leadership than now. Bin Laden and the rest are NOT freedom fighters...they worship death, cruelness and repression. They need to be stopped.
I think IRAN needs a little reminder that they don't dictate too the world the direction of their nuclear program.
Jeff
Yes, thank you for the link...and the link to Carter's speech inside Postrel's article is instructive too. I remember the Carter years very well, but recently I've wondered if maybe we tend to be too harsh on Carter -- that he never really used the word "malaise", was a victim of policies in place before he arrived, etc. etc. But reading that 1979 speech of his.... bro-ther. It's amazing that he could even read his own speech without falling asleep - "crisis of confidence this,...crisis of confidence that, blah blah blah. He was every bit as bad as I remembered and worse.
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