What If Everyone Born from 1967 to 1991 is Generation X?

[JasonBlack]

(02-17-2022, 01:49 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(02-17-2022, 01:09 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(01-10-2022, 01:00 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-09-2022, 12:50 PM)Victorian Jim Dandy Wrote: ... Also,  there should be no nostalgia for Reagan.  Voting in the eighties and having nostalgia for Reagan should put you in the Boomer category. 

Picking just this one, the most Reaganite cohorts are all classic Gen-X.  His libertrarian pitch fits their libertarian sensibilities like a glove.  Are there Boomers iin that same group? Sure, but certainly not nearly as many.

Exactly. Most boomers aren't nearly as conservative as people make them out to be. I know generation's values change overtime (I see Millennials slowly developing a kind of conservative realism that is long overdue), but...do we really expect the hippie-gone-yuppie generation have truly had all the hippie taken out of them? haha

I think you'll find that the most liberal Boomers stayed that way from youth, but most of the conservative Boomers, and there are many, found Jesus along the way.  Of course, there were also many who hid-out in college and moved into lucrative careers.  We're a nearly bifurcated generation, explaining why we are so bad at getting things done in the public realm.

There is a consistency to liberal boomers that most conservative boomers just can't claim. I don't mind people changing their values so long as they can admit what they used to be like. Where many conservative boomers show cognitive dissonance is with all their rhetoric about how "kids these days are so corrupted", and I'm over here like "Oh reallly? Tell me more about those conservative values of Woodstock you had growing up...". As a 30 year old conservative, I certainly don't talk like that to Zoomers, because I realize that conservative values are based in experience as much as theory, and that sometimes the point is hard to grasp without observing things for longer periods. 

Ex: in theory, I defaulted to being pretty sexually liberal. It wasn't until I went to clubs and saw how dysfunctional party, drugs and random hookups every night lifestyle (To this day, I'm extremely pro-sex, I'm just not pro vacuous hedonism and sex with zero intimacy or real loyalty. That destroys people). In the long run, self-regulation and a little temperance can go a long way to allowing for greater freedom and satisfaction, which is what I think most people should really be aiming for.