03-23-2019, 08:40 PM
(03-22-2019, 10:34 PM)gabrielle Wrote:(03-22-2019, 04:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(03-22-2019, 08:54 AM)gabrielle Wrote: Obama was the first Gen X president.
If you go by Strauss and Howe's timeline he is Gen X, and while he is definitely a Gen Joneser, he seems more Gen X-like to me than Boomer-like. He is too cautious and lacking in narcissism to be a Boomer.
Those seem like valid points. The difference, though, is that he did not go along with the individualist Reaganoid program, like most Gen X politicians have. He has greater vision and awareness of history, a boomer trait. No Gen X politicians have come forward yet of either party who have the ability to win a general election for the USA presidency. Gen Xers are too cynical for civics class. Those who can win have thus stayed apart from politics.
No, Beto can't win. His score is 11-26. Harris can't win. Her score is 4-16. Gillibrand 8-13, and Booker 6-7. So on with any Gen X contender you look at. The traits that make them losers will soon be obvious. Trump still can beat any known potential Gen X challenger in his party, according to his score.
I can't really see what these politicians' scores according to your astrological system have to do with whether Obama is Gen X or not.
And since Trump is a Boomer does that mean that he has "greater vision and awareness of history?"
The question is whether presidential leadership will skip the Xers and Silents. Your answer is that Obama is an Xer, so X wasn't skipped. I would say he's a cusper, and the Xer candidates so far aren't going to be elected; so it seems Gen X will be skipped. But, we don't really know who might come onto the scene from Gen X in the future. So there might be a core Xer president; it just doesn't look that way now.
No, Trump does not have "greater vision and awareness of history." Of course it's obvious we can't expect every person to reflect the traits of their generation. Generations are generalities.