re: #395 HappyWarrior

Well obviously not all Gen-Xers are like that. Most of my Gen-X first cousins are more closer to me but still it’s something I’ve noticed that contrasts them with my generation and the boomers. The Republicans seem to get their highest votes not with the elderly but with the 40-50 bracket.

I think, if your first memories of America and politics didn’t include Vietnam and Watergate, and only included (maybe) the highly ineffectual Carter, followed by the ‘boom’ of the Reagan years, your understanding of the world might be skewed. You might buy into things like ‘Reagan won the Cold War’ or ‘We’d have won Vietnam, too, if it weren’t for you meddlesome kids and your stupid dog’.