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

[David Horn]

(02-18-2022, 10:11 AM)JasonBlack Wrote:

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

I think you're pretty typical for a conservative of your generation -- much more open minded than conservatives of mine. It's that mind-slammed-shut attitude that irritates more than anything. You'll be fine. You remind me of David Brooks of NY Times, who walks a similar path.