I was 7 years old when Reagan took office and I feel you on your sentiments. The difference happened to be that I lived with my liberal mother who always spewed hatred for Reagan. She voted for Mondale and the other guy (I dont remember Reagan's other challenger). Even though I listened to "Reagan is going to kill us all" and "Reagan is going to start WWIII" all the time, when I grew old enough to understand politics a little better, I realized my mother was full of bovine excrement. It was this moment that I learned to hate liberalism.
It's a good thing you don't remember who Ronald Reagan "challenged". :)
LOL! Just proves what I've long suspected: Jimmy Carter's presidential career was entirely forgetable!
My parents (both very conservative) discussed politics at the table. We watched the news and I would hear my dad harumph at Tom Brokaw (thus instilling a skeptical view of the MSM at an early age). They never really talked to me about politics or the Constitution or the ideas of limited government, but I picked up quite a bit listening to their conversations. Combined with Reagan: - voila, a future Freeper was conceived.
I couldn't imagine growing up with a lib parent ...