08-29-2020, 10:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-29-2020, 10:49 PM by Eric the Green.)
(08-29-2020, 08:22 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: But didn’t so many of us at the time drink the Reagan Kool-Aid? So many of us felt that RWR was the best thing to come along since sliced bread. Another way of saying that we have met the enemy and it is us?
Well, I never felt that way. I was not grateful for THAT bread. But then, I was a CA teenager when he was elected governor in 1966. I met the enemy then, and he wasn't me.
Us Bay Area boomers, don'tcha know, couldn't vote and we hated him. But we grew up and helped turn the whole Bay Area deep blue. We almost swung the state for McGovern. We hoped we could turn the whole country blue too, but, we weren't typical of Classic Xer's Amerika.