Report Card for Donald Trump

[Mikebert]

Some Guy Wrote:How did she participate/feel about the events in the 60s and 70s?  Any divorces or other adult personal crises during that period?

All during the Sixties they were Goldwater Republicans.  But in the 1970’s they became Democrats.  They both were classic Silent.  The peer personalities are there
 

Quote:By the time the 2T really came around your mom was in her 30s, and she has clear memories of the 1T as an adult.  So, definitely a Silent.

This doesn’t apply to me, I don’t have clear memoires of the sixties and early 1970’s as an adult.  My young adult memories (as opposed to adolescent ones) are in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, when I was single and then early in my marriage before we adopted our daughter, which was an era that was very much like the rest of the 1990’s and even in a lot of respects much of the 2000’s—that is very 3Tish.  The median-aged ruling elite is a 1957 cohort, yet we still very much have Boomer governance. I doubt it’s going to suddenly change in the next two years, and so my cohort will be in charge and we will still be very Boomer, meaning my cohort is still very Boomer, even though we don’t have adult memories of the spiritual awakening.
 
Here you are subtlely changing from the S&H model.  You are emphasizing a portion of the rising adult phase of life as important. This is my view, that what matters is the experience over a more narrow span of years that a full phase of life, and that this span tends towards the beginning of the phase of life.
 

Quote: As for you, any sort of youthful activism?

No.  Heck that was all over, when I was still a kid.  The streaking craze in ’73 was the beginning of the end of it.  After that it devolved into silliness like the Pail and Shovel Party at UW-Madison. You can think of that as a harbinger of the 3T.  There was a rising conservatism on campus in the late 1970’s, that persisted until 1988 when I left.  After that I don’t know.
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