Posted on 11/07/2022 5:58:52 AM PST by euram
Gen-X is the most aborted generation in American history, with one out of every three of its potential members having been aborted. Half of its parents are divorced or separated. Many were “latchkey kids,” fending for themselves after school. Now they are being asked to carry the burden of the largest government debt in history, bequeathed them by their parents.
It is easy to understand why Gen-X is cynical, skeptical, and scrappy.
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I am hopeful..but Shapiro has been winning in the polls. He will institutionalize poor education practices as he is beholden to the teachers’ unions. This will have to be a fight from school district to school district. And I’m in that Great Valley district they mention.
If Shapiro wins, you can kiss PA goodbye in 2024. There’s no way a Republican presidential candidate will win the state with him as governor. He was Attorney General of the state during the 2020 election. That’s all you need to know.
That’s because the boomers....you know, the generation that doesn’t trust anyone over 30...just won’t die
I think I should wear a cape to the voting place tomorrow :)
All the Gen-Xers I know have families and tend to be conservative.
They are not abortion supporters.
That’s correct...add in we are not racist, we lived through bussing, watched public housing fail and quotas destroy business and government. It’s the...I hope I die before I get old generation. Thanks Neil Young....idiot
Gen X is also the political generation who came of age and had Carter, Mondale and Dukakis as the Dems and Ronald Reagan as the Republican examples.
I was just a little kid during Cater’s presidency, but I do remember gas lines, and I remember Carter wearing a sweater telling us to turn down our thermostats in the Winter. It may shock Joy Reid, by I heard the word “Inflation” by the time I was six years old, thanks to Carter. Heck, I recall ads for stores stating that they could help you beat the high cost of inflation with their bargains.
I will say this about my generation, politically speaking in our youth we were remarkably apolitical.
There was no draft, there was great prosperity, abortion was not a hot button issue since we never knew a country without it. We can say that in our youth our biggest issue was Atari or Intellivision, as we came of age SNES or Genesis.
We were shocked a cheating presidential candidate was an issue since half of our friends seemingly went through the same thing at home. Being inappropriate at work was frequently common, especially if you worked with all women as I did one summer they put men to shame.
The world seemed to slip off the rails ever so slowly to the point where even someone that had green hair in high school, had gay friends, hated MTV and was more likely to know the Dead Kennedys than Dan Quayle are like WTF is up with kids today?
We were blessed with so much and so little was asked from us for so long I truly wonder if we know how to fight back against insanity.
The Gen-x’ers grew up during the Reagan years. They know how good things can be with the proper conservative leadership.
Just my guess here, but the 1/3rd who were aborted were probably likely to grow up in households that would make them more likely to be Democrats.
“I will say this about my generation, politically speaking in our youth we were remarkably apolitical.”
It depends. I grew up in a politically active family. My mom worked in the grass roots with Women for Reagan. Sure, I grew up being cynical about a lot of things, including government, but I did have my political beliefs. That said, even my apolitical friends were getting nervous about the rise of PC culture when we were in college in the 1990s. I knew a few who stayed on the left and have continued to follow it off the cliff. However, most of my friends have become more conservative, and politically active - that tends to happen when you have kids and pay bills.
I used to have GREAT fun telling my leftist boomer college profs that I didn’t trust anybody over 30.
BOY, did that annoy them. It was wonderful.
Obviously youthful rebellion was only OK when they did it....and they were always supposed to be the youngest hippest ones around. I noticed I was far from the only Gen Xer who loved pointing out to them.....nope!
“The Gen-x’ers grew up during the Reagan years. They know how good things can be with the proper conservative leadership.”
Exactly right! And now you have the left trying to rewrite history. I debated a leftie the other day who kept trying to say how so many Americans hated Reagan in the 80’s. I replied with “Yeah so many that he won reelection in 84 with 49 states. A feat that will no doubt never be recreated in our future...
True story right there brother
W-I-N buttons.
For those too young to have been there: Whip Inflation Now. Gerald Ford 1974.
Yep. I heard relatives laugh about them when i was a little kid.
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