Gen X

[<MADDOG>]

Where are we failing?

What did we do?

[.455_Hunter]

As younger X'er (1976), it seems like we are cautiously sitting in the shadows watching the Boomers and the Millennials battle it out, while we build wealth and power behind the headlines. I also am watching Gen Z, and yes, some are diehard Lefties, but it's amazing how many of my son's friends here in Boulder are rejecting Progressive stupidity.

Your take maybe entirely different...

[hatidua]

Where are we failing?

What did we do?

Time-outs didn't work. Honestly, who'd have thunk it?!

[Great-Kazoo]

Where are we failing?

What did we do?

In general. We allowed the education system to act as guardians while the kids were in school. Being fed If your parents hit you, report it, That's child abuse.

No one's a loser, everybody's a winner.

Physical education became a non exercising routine. Playground / lunch break took monkey bars, dodge ball and who knows what else out of the picture. .


History? well lets not go there. Same for the rest of the system.



Helicopter parents (but that's a forever thing)

Oh yeah Parents who were more interested in raising & treating their offspring as a kid sister, or brother / BFF rather than be a parent.

[def90]

Gen X is all over the board. I've read that Gen Z is supposedly more conservative than the previous generations.. We'll see.

[WETWRKS]

Schools changing from teaching people how to think to teaching people what to think.

Everything having to be a learning experience instead of things being simply for enjoyment.

[Ramsker]

Ehh . . . the education system, social media and peer pressure all influenced heavily by that are highly progressive. It's hard to compete with. I have 2 college-aged kids. My son is pretty fiercely libertarian. My daughter is leaning vegan and buys into most of the progressive rhetoric. Both rasied the same way.

Kids have to make their own decisions and their own mistakes. Unfortunately, a ton of kids are buying what the leftists are selling and they probably won't realize they were backing the wrong horse until it's their wallets getting raped by Uncle Marx.

[Delfuego]

https://gizmodo.com/generation-x-is-...llshit-5851062

[Justin]

[Big E3]

Most call them Gen X or Y, I call them the Borg.

The Gen Y and to a lesser degree X are the Borg. They go through life connected to the collective with a handheld device that they all stare at all day long. They appear to be in a trance. No one knows who is telling them what they should know, some say it is bots controlled by Bloomberg and Soros. They all went thru the public school indoctrination program for 12 years and on to advanced training (college) as future America haters. I believe that at night a subliminal message is played over and over while they sleep, “Democrat Good, Republican Bad”. If you confront a Gen X/Y’er they defend their wrong position as if they have been there done that when all they did was watch a U-Tube video. I used to just chalk it up as they just don’t know what they don’t know and someday they will learn the truth. I’m starting to think they will continue in life never finding the truth, a lot like Hippies did in the 60’s. They just want to believe what they think they “should” believe. And because they can go online and have their position validated, they believe they are smarter than you. When they vote it’s always democrat because they believe that the Boomers just picked the wrong democrat and they will pick a better democrat, a lot like people from other states moving here.

I know there are always exception to this. Some grew up with actual adult supervision, a knowledgeable mentor or did actual research from credible sources and turned out to be self-thinking people. This seems to be the exception rather than the rule.