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Democrat-Socialists Rage At Generation X For Supporting GOP By Huge Margin In New Poll
Gateway Pundit ^

Posted on 10/18/2022 1:31:09 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe

A recent New York Times poll found that 59% of those aged 45 to 64 plan on voting for Republicans in this coming midterm election.

Republicans also have an advantage among likely voters – they hold a 49%-45% lead in the poll.

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To: Tench_Coxe

Democratic Socialists know absolutely nothing. Look at the great job they’re doing in the Biden Administration.


41 posted on 10/18/2022 2:19:59 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: JBW1949

See post 22.


42 posted on 10/18/2022 2:20:42 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: fr_freak

Plus this critical race BS doesn’t make sense to us.

Our TV shows had white people, black people, all different people mixed together. And they subverted expectations too....we saw rich black families like the Cosbys and the Banks, and poor white families like the Waltons and the Bundys.

In some ways it was actually kind of an idyllic American childhood, looking back on it now.

And it’s hard to sell us on the idea that Balkanizing the USA into completely separate groups of people that hate each other and all have to act a certain approved way.


43 posted on 10/18/2022 2:25:48 PM PDT by Claud
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To: Tench_Coxe

Actually in one way or another, reading the title alone caused me to think about all the points you just stated. And yeah, we are the last generation of what is termed “free range children” these days where we had to navigate the world in unstructured format without every detail micro managed by adults.


44 posted on 10/18/2022 2:31:30 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I’m in that age range, and I am NOT Gen-X. Last year of the boom was 1964, and those would be 58 this year.


45 posted on 10/18/2022 2:33:36 PM PDT by Hazwaste (Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: JBW1949

Polling shows a 50/50 split on Boomers.


46 posted on 10/18/2022 2:42:37 PM PDT by Codeflier (I am just going to assume you are a Democrat if you call me a Putin supporter and ignore you.)
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To: griswold3

“They wanted it all and they wanted it now...”

Nah, those were the boomers. It’s literally a lyric from “When The Music’s Over” by the Doors, who weren’t Gen X.


47 posted on 10/18/2022 2:43:58 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Tench_Coxe
A recent New York Times poll found that 59% of those aged 45 to 64...

Xers were said to have been born from 1965 to 1980. Has that changed?

I was born in the early 1960s. I thought I was a Boomer. Am I now an Xer?

Cool! I feel younger already!

48 posted on 10/18/2022 2:45:08 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Tench_Coxe

Our grandparents lived through the depression and WWII. If we were lucky enough, we got to hear their stories directly from them.

Chances are, Gen X parents were boomers and not hippies. Pick on the boomers if you want, but my boomer parents grew up poor and earned their place in the world.

I assume that the hippy generation parented the millennials, and that may be another factor to consider.

Or Gen X could be the last generation that got a good dose of the Christian work ethic. (except our children of course.)

Generation eXpectations. You better live up to them or face the consequences.


49 posted on 10/18/2022 2:45:59 PM PDT by Mass Market
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To: Tench_Coxe

“Gen X was the generation to: Be the last one to live with the threat of nuclear war hanging in the background”

^^^ THIS ^^^

As has been pointed out, it’s also including those age 58-64 - those younger Boomers also remember.


50 posted on 10/18/2022 2:48:21 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Tench_Coxe
Xers were called Slackers in the early 1990s, when the term was coined.

Films such as Clerks and Reality Bites and Suburbia were said to display Gen X's slacker ethos.

TV's Friends was the flagship Gen X sitcom.

Grunge was their music. After Kurt Cobain killed himself, I heard Courtney Love say on the radio, "We Gen Xers have lost our John Lennon."

The media, at least, never portrayed Gen X as particularly conservative. Xers were portrayed as cynical nihilists who rejected corporate culture, patriotism, as well as hippie idealism

51 posted on 10/18/2022 2:53:05 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Tench_Coxe

They’re now middle-aged old farts — and the GOP is in trouble if they don’t do well in that demographic.


52 posted on 10/18/2022 2:54:25 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Boogieman

The Doors were not boomers.


53 posted on 10/18/2022 2:56:25 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: fr_freak
I think the Boomers are the only generation that still has any trust in the old institutions - mainstream media, the government, law enforcement, etc.

As a boomer, you could not be more wrong.

Now put down the Hunter crack pipe and walk away.

54 posted on 10/18/2022 3:09:15 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: ansel12

Well, they sure as hell weren’t Gen X. Morrison was born in 43, Krieger in 46, Densmore in 44, and Manzarek was the old man born in 39. I suppose they were more at the tail end of the Silent Generation, except for Krieger, but generations always get a little muddy at the borderline. The boomers bought lots of their records, that’s for sure.


55 posted on 10/18/2022 3:09:51 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

In 1966 boomers ranged from age 2 years old to 20 years old.

The people we know from the hippies were almost all ‘silent generation’ people. People like Bob Seger, Jane Fonda, John Denver, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Paul & Mary, Grace Slick, Neil Young, Beatles, Van Morrison, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia, Pete Townsend, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Jimmy Page, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Williams Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Chicago Seven, Rod Stewart, Abbie Hoffman, Hunter S. Thompson, Malcolm X, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, The Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, the Jefferson Airplane, and the Mamas and the Papas, Jimmy Page, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, etc, etc, etc, just about everyone that you can name.


56 posted on 10/18/2022 3:12:52 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I don’t think the people from 58 to 64 count as Gen X by any standard. I have generally understood Gen X is most commonly defined as people born between 1965 and 1985 but with the start date sometimes being defined being as late as 1970 and the end date being as early as 1980.

By any definition, the oldest Xers are 57 and the youngest are 37. We were still on the leading edge when computers went mainstream, and the internet was in its infancy. We naively believed the world wide web promised decentralized communication and a breaking of the hegemony of big media. Communism fell and we briefly knew a world that wasn’t on the precipice of apocalyptic doom.

Sadly, it all proved a false hope. The conglomerates took over the internet and it proved the greatest tool ever known for tracking and controlling people. With the advent of the War on Terrorism we allowed the government to take to itself broad powers to track and punish “terrorism” that would make the KGB and Stasi green with envy. After decades of climate and environmental apocalyptic warnings, we even have nuclear war back in our consciousness.

We know so much of it is BS, and we tend to vote conservative, but we also don’t matter much because we are a relatively small cohort in-between the boomers and millennials.


57 posted on 10/18/2022 3:23:01 PM PDT by Flying Circus
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To: newfreep

You’re one guy. Meanwhile, I’ve met quite a lot of Boomers.

Hell, we had yet another thread just today of some Boomers raging about all those damn kids smoking marijuana, as if that’s still the root of all our problems today.


58 posted on 10/18/2022 3:32:11 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

You’re an especially stupid idiot...but thanks for outing yourself.


59 posted on 10/18/2022 3:53:00 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: newfreep

Yeah, go screw yourself moron.


60 posted on 10/18/2022 4:32:46 PM PDT by fr_freak
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