Posted on 10/31/2020 11:42:22 AM PDT by OceanGazer
I read many years ago that the cohort born 1960-64 was the most conservative age cohort in the US: the earlier Boomers got the party; the tail end of the boom got the ‘60s hangover, which soured us on leftist utopian BS.
Every 65+ member of our church including my husband and myself are ADAMENT Trump supporters. But then we’re in Texas.
How the hell could anybody aged 65+ vote for Democrats when the Democrats are promising to take away their Medicare and give them something else instead. That something else is Medicare for All and for Everybody in the World.
Born 1961...undoubtedly the most conservative member of my family and my workplace. The other quality of Generation Jones: We don’t believe what anyone is dealing out.
Right there with you. Born 1960 in MA. Apparently the only Conservative my family has ever produced.
And so many were worried that we were listening to heavy metal and flashing devil signs and indulging only in sex drugs and rock and roll and were going to be monsters :-)
you know it’s been 15 minutes since I wrote that first paragraph and I’m still trying to figure out how the heck we ended up being a pretty much conservative group :-)
I guess in the end it was just music and we knew it was just music. And any of the more cutting edge bands were just like musical horror movies. Nothing more and nothing less.
We mostly came from good families and we acted out in our teens like most teens do and that was that
Those of us approaching retirement want a president who will not kill our 401K’s.
Mine has done very well under Trump, thank you very much.
I arrived in 1967, just past the “official” Jones generation, but I can relate to this. Was definitely a Reagan youth. I’m the youngest of 5 boomers who are all conservative to varying degrees.
This article is bs..
People born 42-53 are not all aged hippies who turned into squishy Republicans.
Sure people get a bit more conservative as they age...
But the liberal hippies stayed mostly liberal, and most older conservatives were never liberal even when we were young.
I went to rock concerts and played in a band - but my parents were Goldwater conservatives and I never voted fir a Democrat in my life.
This article is missing the whole point of Donald Trump: he is a hard working uncorrupted businessman who is fighting for the American working class - thats what any sane American wants running the country - including a lot of Democrats.
Thats why he will win - not because of shifting demographics...
He has the right message - and the Democrats have nothing..
We were a generation that understood irony, unlike the present younger cohort of wokescold ignoramuses.
I was born in 65. Dad was Goldwater conservative and all siblings are conservative but Im the most conservative. I remember the economic misery of the 70s and the go-go 80s. In the 80s you knew Reagan had the back of the average American and Main Street, and the country. I got to know first hand in the 70s what misery Democrats and globalist can cause. Ill take Trump again for continued growth and love of country.
Shut up and play music lol
Well I was born in 1968 so it was more the hair band era I grew up in.
They didn’t much mention politics but here and there the same BS came out.. Anti-nuke, anti-gun...but it was infrequent enough to ignore.
And guys like Dio and some others...like I said...they were the musical equivalent of a horror movie, usually a bad one lol, but I liked it :)
If all it takes is a song and an album cover to convert you to satan worship...you were in some trouble to begin with :)
Yea, the 70’s were grand. My school system in northern Ohio couldn’t afford to heat the schools, so we went in shifts in one old school, and a nearby factory sent some steam over in an underground tunnel for heat! Moved 1100 miles away for my first job- in my wrecked Chevette. Shall I continue?
Save Trump from what?
Great point. In fact, it was Jonesers — back in the 1970’s — who really fueled the sense of postmodern irony that has become such an integral part of out culture.
Um...losing the election. Who knows what happens here, but there is no denying that Trump is behind in the polls.
When we think about generations, we are not saying that every member possesses all the stereotypic characteristics. Of course “People born 42-53 are not all aged hippies who turned into squishy Republicans”. But in broad strokes it rings true.
People do tend to become more conservative as they age. As the British Parlamentarian Edmund Burke put it: “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you’re not a conservative at 40, you have no head”
And as far as Trump: he has his good and bad points, but to claim he is an “uncorrupted businessman” is to ignore the Mount Everest of evidence that obviously says otherwise.
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