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sacto95834

(393 posts)
16. Good Question about the "Liberal" Boomers...
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 02:39 PM
Aug 2019

I was told during my salad days that I would turn conservative as I aged and life showed me the "real" world.

I am the last of the Boomers but I don't identify with that Generation; nor do I consider myself GenX. I'm in what is known as the Lost Generation - I grew up with the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family and most telling, I remember the short lived teevee show "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" - most don't know where the phrase "Mr. Eddie's father" comes from.

I think the "liberal" boomers were born about a decade before me - they remember the Kennedy assassination and the Moon Landing; I really don't. I came of age beginning with Nixon and Watergate and a lot of my college friends were "Young Republicans" - I personally hated Ray-gun. Will never forgive him for allowing so many of my friends and colleagues suffer the Age of AIDS and not lifting a finger.

Anyway, back to my original point, I don't think I've turned to the dark side as I aged. If anything I've gotten more progressive and leftist. I believe government is an instrument of good and should provide healthcare as a human right to all Americans and assist those who cannot make it on their own. A lot of my college friends couldn't believe I was a Democrat; but I am the child of a family of laborers who got ahead with union and had a chance to live the American dream.

It's inevitable, and Republicans know it. dalton99a Aug 2019 #1
What's it going to take to get turnout from our side? IronLionZion Aug 2019 #2
Put Castro or O'Rourke on the ticket as VP? NewJeffCT Aug 2019 #3
ticket balance evilhime Aug 2019 #14
The SALT tax limit is tough on a lot of those suburban Texas areas NewJeffCT Aug 2019 #4
Homeowners with limited incomes would feel the pain of those property taxes IronLionZion Aug 2019 #6
This is why I'm supporting a Biden/Beto ticket. Duppers Aug 2019 #5
It would be sweet if Dems could take Texas and Florida IronLionZion Aug 2019 #7
PA, WI, and MI will probably be easier than FL or TX pstokely Aug 2019 #21
Heve to admit I've lost faith in Beto a bit Gregory Peccary Aug 2019 #8
Simply because Texans would love to see Duppers Aug 2019 #10
We tried this with Benson remember?? sacto95834 Aug 2019 #12
1988. Things haven't changed? Duppers Aug 2019 #13
Unfortunately... sacto95834 Aug 2019 #17
You're probably right. Duppers Aug 2019 #19
It may be me... sacto95834 Aug 2019 #11
Would love to see the day! 😊 Duppers Aug 2019 #15
Good Question about the "Liberal" Boomers... sacto95834 Aug 2019 #16
I came from generations Duppers Aug 2019 #18
were those once liberal boomers radicalized by faux fake news and 30 years of RW hate radio? pstokely Aug 2019 #23
Always racists, I think. Duppers Aug 2019 #24
Beto might put TX in play, forcing them to shift resources down there pstokely Aug 2019 #22
Good point. 👍 Duppers Aug 2019 #25
And now, the GOP is trying to figure out how it can disenfranchise entire cities B Stieg Aug 2019 #9
are "native" Texans any more or less progressive than the transplants? pstokely Aug 2019 #20
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