We were raised with the malaise of the Jimmy Crater years, and saw the incredible national revival of the Reagan years.
We were the last generation raised under the threat of Communist imperialism and we saw what an utter failure state socialism truly was as it collapsed.
We saw the tremendous birth of freedom caused by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the complete triumph of the West in the Cold War.
We were in our prime when Saturday Night Live was still funny, there was still comedy, people were not going around all the time desperate to claim victim status and the most popular show on television for years featured a couple good ole boys with a car called the General Lee that had a big beautiful confederate flag on the roof and a horn that played Dixie.
We grew up with real football before the pussification rules when big hits were part of the game and if you didn’t like that you could just choose not to play.
When we grew up masculinity was celebrated and men were expected to be tough rather than snivelling and crying like little beyotches.
We grew up with actual current Rock music being played on the radio.
We grew up before Political Correctness or Wokeism.
Trannies were seen as being mentally disturbed at best and were the punchline in movies from Crocodile Dundee to Bachelor Party to Ace Ventura.
We grew up in an era when nobody who was taken seriously by anybody questioned the importance of free speech - as we used to say to each other when anyone expressed a different opinion “its a free country”.
We. Get. It.
We were also the last generation to learn how to drive a “stick”(manual transmission) car.