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.
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
And the “formative President” of our young adulthood, as it were, was Ronald Reagan.
A lot of us who came of voting age in 70s and 80s saw our older siblings become cuckoo hippies, mess up their lives, and cause enormous grief to our parents. We wanted nothing of that and Reagan was a bright beacon of hope of restoring sense, responsibility and tradition to the world the hippies messed up. We were thankful when some hippies turned around and went right, and sad or angry when others never really grew up. We went the opposite direction in voting, lifestyle, even clothing.
I don’t necessarily agree with his term grievance, it sounds like whiny millennials, we aren’t that. I think our generation is focused and determined to do what needs to be done.