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In reply to the discussion: Texas' biggest metro areas may tip America's balance of power in the years ahead [View all]sacto95834
(393 posts)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.