Posted on 02/03/2020 11:41:58 AM PST by joma89
For people of a certain advanced age, the first openly Republican or conservative fictional character they can remember is Alex P. Keaton from the NBC sitcom “Family Ties.” The role launched Michael J. Fox’s career, but it did something else, too: in many ways, Alex Keaton predicted the conservative movement that we see emerging today. Energetic and aggressive, Keaton was an unapologetic conservative character at a time conservatism was in many ways an apologetic underdog.
It is important to note that Alex P. Keaton was born in 1965, the very first year of Generation X. The comic tension he provided was his rejection of the 1960s hippie ethos of his progressive parents. He is arguably the first manifestation of something that is now a staple of our society, the countercultural conservative. Conservatism as counter culture has reached an apex in the age of Trump. But its seeds can be seen in this old NBC sitcom. Keaton might as well have said, “Okay, Boomer.”
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Yes, she was once quite the dish.
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“Quite the dish”. Is someone giving away his age?
I’m pushing hard at 75 myself.
When "Bridget Loves Bernie" came out, I was in high school.
I grew up 80s in the South under democrat control. I graduated ‘84 and my mom and dad always called me Alex P. Keaton. i was visiting the other day and she reminder me and called me Alex. The South hadnt quite figured it out by then, and im afraid many still vote Dem because thats how their daddy did, although there are fewer and fewer of those.
Wasnt TV so family oriented/inocent back then?
PS. 1st vote was for Reagan and have never voted for a Dem.
Me too.
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