Posted on 04/27/2019 1:30:44 PM PDT by Maceman
On 4/19/2019 I posted a thread asking Freepers which generation they belonged to. The thread was an attempt to satisfy my curiosity regarding the generational breakdown of FR because I have gotten the sense that most of us are rather long in the tooth.
Naturally, as a 20-year member of this esteemed site, my hope is that it will ultimately start attracting younger members in order to continue the critical job of spreading the conservative perspective to new generations.
I received 389 responses to my original post, of which 219 actually provided information regarding respondents' birth year or generation.
Here are the results:
Those are crap numbers, IMO. There is no way Obama is an X. I’ve always understood ‘46-64 is the Boomer timeframe, or throw in the Jones’ at the tail end of those years if need be.
“The generation before us Boomers is called the Greatest. And they were...”
Thanks! When Pearl Harbor was bombed, I was so surprised, I dropped my rattle...
Thanks! Neat to find out.
Gen X here.
i really hate those generation breakdowns.
I was born in ‘63.
I AM NOT A BOOMER.
Perhaps your parents were like that; others from the WAR BABY generation weren't and still aren't.
Were this cohort (WAR BABIES) mostly pushed aside by the BOOMERS? In some ways they were, re school; however, the rest of your stupid rant is baselss and unhistoric.
Some of what you're claiming is about the tail end of the GREATEST and pre-WAR BABIES people. They're the ones who fought in Korea! They had BOOMERS and spoiled them!
It would be nice to see the membership #s
over the years as the site grew.
How I envy you. Plunging into Lewis for the first time.
My favorite book is Babbitt, but they’re all very good.
I guess I am confused by what years the silent generation was...never heard of them until today. Just looked it up and said 1927-1946. That is an overlap of the Greatest and Boomers, knew many and don’t agree with the depiction. I didn’t know any that didn’t embrace change, and though they were taught to be silent and get along as children the Greatest were taught that even more so, I didn’t see them that way as adults. That age group was no more silent than the Greatest or Boomers.
I knew several that fought in Korea and they were embraced by the WWII Veterans and the people in a way those that fought in Vietnam never were. The Korean War itself was swept aside pretty fast but the Veterans I knew were not. As to going along...Boomers and what is considered the Silent were legends of fist fighting in my childhood...so not sure the Silent went along as adults so much.
I just see it different I guess, we all see what is where we live. I read what you said in the article I just read but that doesn’t describe those I knew of that age group.
All I know is that something fantastic happened at Pearl Harbor, because nine months later, I was born!
I’m Gen X, and I read Free Republic, and listen to Rush, when I can.
“Of course these are generalizations.”
Yes, there are. There is also stereotyping, which most of us do to some extent, and so far you lead this thread in that category.
Some day you will come to realize that people tend to judge in accordance with their personal experiences. As you gain more experience....more knowledge, more wisdom... you will likely judge people more as well. And you may be surprised how often your judgments will be proven right.
Don’t expect a smooth graph. There have been purges along the way.
Things change.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-generation-jones-born-19551965-who-what-want-how-theresa-danna
Student radicalism is alive and well today. It didn’t stop with the draft...we didn’t see them in the streets because they were busy taking over politics, education, embracing misunderstood groups to further their agenda. We are dealing with the results of prolonged and continuing student radicalism today. Today many are in the streets, but many are in power so can wreck things without being in the street rioting.
You’re a Generation Jones, like me.
On the cusp of Boomer/GenX.
Best of both worlds.
:D
“Boomers with their free love and drugs. “
That idea pretty much started with Hugh Hefner and Playboy around 1952, and various Hollywood moguls long before ‘Boomers had anything to say about it.
Plus the birth control pill which hit the American market in 1962 when the very first ‘Boomer turned 18. As did Timothy Leary and the beginnings of the drug culture.
But speaking as a somewhat early ‘Boomer we are honored that you give us the blame and credit for it, no matter how wrong headed and inaccurate your claim is.
“Gen X which I’m part of is ignored by the attention seekers of the boomers and millennials. Two generations that have/want to destroy the country. Boomers with their free love and drugs. Millennials with their desire for freebies.”
Agree.
Boomers left a mess and Millennials will blame us for it.
“You’re a Generation Jones, like me.”
Huh?
‘generation jones’???
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