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>>>>I was struck by how much of a transitional generation we are.....And what’s the hallmark of our generation?

Abortion.

The biggest story of Gen X is one they won't write about. But is the most important and fundamental point. Widespread abortion practiced on a whole generation.

Gen X was the first to "benefit" from Roe vs. Wade. The first generation to have 1 out of 4 murdered. Collectively that has a huge impact on a systemic/sociological scale. IMO it has a personal impact on the psyche of the generation. The baby boomers murdered their offsrping.

It's one reason the baby boomers still dominante political discourse today. They culled the herd. The book "Freakonomics" discusses some of the economic/criminology ramifications of the widescale abortion. (but sidesteps the spiritual/moral/social political issues)

From this end it looks like the political mess we are in is directly related to the "sins of the hippie mothers and fathers". Its all connected, mass ilegal immigration to do the jobs our aborted babies can't do. Colleges full of aging hippies who relive their heyday brainwashing and trying to hit on young coeds with little resistance from the culled herd. National Socialist control of every aspect of our lives. etc.

Abortion, and I would also add to the legacy the mainstreaming of drug addiction and the idea of drugs as the solution to all of life's problems.

I'm a Gen Xer, and I really wish I could watch television for ten minutes without seeing a commericial of some aging Boomer flacking an erection pill.

The biggest story of Gen X is one they won't write about. But is the most important and fundamental point. Widespread abortion practiced on a whole generation.

Gen X was the first to "benefit" from Roe vs. Wade. The first generation to have 1 out of 4 murdered. Collectively that has a huge impact on a systemic/sociological scale. IMO it has a personal impact on the psyche of the generation. The baby boomers murdered their offsrping.

It's one reason the baby boomers still dominante political discourse today. They culled the herd. The book "Freakonomics" discusses some of the economic/criminology ramifications of the widescale abortion. (but sidesteps the spiritual/moral/social political issues)

From this end it looks like the political mess we are in is directly related to the "sins of the hippie mothers and fathers". Its all connected, mass ilegal immigration to do the jobs our aborted babies can't do. Colleges full of aging hippies who relive their heyday brainwashing and trying to hit on young coeds with little resistance from the culled herd. National Socialist control of every aspect of our lives. etc.

True, very true, you removed a good number of X'ers and Y'ers, potential workers and taxpayers, hence, as you pointed out, the Boomers have had a longer dominant run. It goes back to what I have always said, "nature abhores a vacuum" so something has to come along to fill it.