Quote Originally Posted by jp1 View Post
I would agree that gen x'ers are not likely to be idealistic. I mean, geez, I first became politically aware during Reagan. If that won't kill off one's idealism nothing will.
I miss Reagan. I miss the way he just laughed off the insults of the ankle-biters of the time. They would call him stupid even as he wiped the floor with them. No angry tweets in response to some SNL skit. Just a cheery “There you go again”. We need more of that in our contemporary politics.