[HungarianGypsy]

Did it ever bother anyone else to hear that all the hope for the world was on the next generation, then realize they were talking about the kids that were in kindergarten, while you were barely in high school? The schools and media made it sound like they gave up on us before we had even had a chance to grow up and do anything.

[Mo1]

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[NCPAC]

I know and have worked with a large number of Republicans between the ages of 23 and 35 and I must say it is the freshest, most energetic group of Republicans I have seen since the original Reaganite onslaught in 1980-81.

My eldest daughter, a libertarian streaked "Reagan-Kid" falls into this category. She has two portraits hanging in the wall of her room: One is a signed glossy of Bono (lead singer for U2) and the other is a signed Presidential portrait of Ronald Reagan, which I'd had since 1984 and gave her for her 18th birthday a few years back.

[Rutabega]

Yes! That is exactly what I was thinking when I read this! I'm just thrity-one, how can I be too old to count yet? ;)

[qam1]

I agree, Even William Strauss and Neil Howe who wrote 13th Gen and The Forth turning aparently have abandoned us with their new book Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation

I think it's because

1) There is so few of us that we are just overshadowed on both ends. By the time we dislodge the baby boomers from power we are going to be over run by Ys

2)Unlike Gen-Y when we grew up the WWII and Silents controlled everything (i.e. The Schools) so we couldn't be indoctrinated by the baby boomers while Gen-Y is getting the full brunt. Since Gen-X obviously rejected the counter culture movement very early on they put/are putting all their hopes on Gen-Y to take over their mantle.

3)They are really pissed at the Gen-X favorite TV show Family Ties during the 1980's and that many of us emulated Alex P. Keaton.

[Alkhin]

Did it ever bother anyone else to hear that all the hope for the world was on the next generation, then realize they were talking about the kids that were in kindergarten, while you were barely in high school? The schools and media made it sound like they gave up on us before we had even had a chance to grow up and do anything.

Yes...and it was why, not too long out of college (1989) that I started referring to our set of peers as being a kind of "Lost Generation." We're the ones too small to make any difference right?

its why I always say : "I have watched, I have recorded, I will teach...and there is nothing they can do about it."

[jpl]

The schools and media made it sound like they gave up on us before we had even had a chance to grow up and do anything.

That's OK, because as a Reagan teenager, I gave up on most of my teachers and the media by the time I was around 15.