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Blue_In_AK

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88. I think maybe all of us get caught up in raising our families

Wed Dec 4, 2013, 01:41 AM

Dec 2013

when we're in our 40s which is why some of the younger people think the boomer generation "dropped the ball" during the Reagan years. I know I was very politically engaged in my 20s, then when my daughters were born in the '70s and '80s, I was busy working, raising them, doing family stuff, keeping a roof over everyone's head and didn't really have the time to do more than be aware of what was going on politically and vote whenever elections came up. Maybe that's a cop-out, but at that time my immediate family was top priority. Now that the kids are grown, I'm back to my old 25-year-old rabble-rousing self. I'm retired, I have the time for it.

Maybe we weren't as politically diligent as we should have been in the '80s, but we were busy raising you youngsters. I appreciate when younger people, like you, aren't so strident in your disdain for my generation. Inter-generational disrespect doesn't help anyone. We're all in this together.

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Fellow GenXers, ever feel invisible? ....... [View all] marmar Dec 2013 OP

Yeah I didn't bother to get into that thread gollygee Dec 2013 #1

No, I don't care quinnox Dec 2013 #2

It's ok to feel invisible. It means they're blaming each other, and not us. DisgustipatedinCA Dec 2013 #3

It's the middle child syndrome for GenXers brush Dec 2013 #56

LOL!! darkangel218 Dec 2013 #4

I was thinking of posting the exact same thing in that particular thread. phleshdef Dec 2013 #5

Well, yes, but what can I say nadinbrzezinski Dec 2013 #6

I'm wearing flannel, sipping coffee, & listening to Pearl Jam NightWatcher Dec 2013 #7

Im having a beer. darkangel218 Dec 2013 #8

I'm having a glass of Pinot JustAnotherGen Dec 2013 #26

heh I was looking for some relevant media criticism to start a thread. Jesus Malverde Dec 2013 #9

Yes! I want to shout "I WILL NOT BE IGNORED!" Happyhippychick Dec 2013 #10

Boil a bunny. That'll get our attention! 11 Bravo Dec 2013 #97

can't see the OP??? is there something here? Demonaut Dec 2013 #11

Yep! JustAnotherGen Dec 2013 #12

LOL (nt) jeff47 Dec 2013 #13

You think you're ignored -- What about us Generation Jonesers? htuttle Dec 2013 #14

That just shows how dumb it is to label a 20-year cohort, but give it hard dates at the outside cemaphonic Dec 2013 #17

I think that the concept of cultural cohorts can be moderately useful htuttle Dec 2013 #76

Same here. Although my parents aren't even boomers. They were little kids during WWII FSogol Dec 2013 #33

I believe we've been folded into Gen-X. As you say, we're the kids of Boomers so can't be Boomers Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #71

You're right about living through somebody else's hangover htuttle Dec 2013 #77

Our whole life, "Oh look at them doing what we'll never get to do. Looks like fun". n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #98

The very term 'gen x' insinuates anonymity. Wait Wut Dec 2013 #15

I related best JustAnotherGen Dec 2013 #29

Better to fly under the radar anyway abelenkpe Dec 2013 #16

Absolutely tcfrogs Dec 2013 #18

I like being invisible - TBF Dec 2013 #19

Yeah- we knew Nirvana before they were big. myrna minx Dec 2013 #20

you want I should kick some GenX ass, marmar? Skittles Dec 2013 #21

LOL. marmar Dec 2013 #23

I get so darned confused. I don't know what the heck I am. OneGrassRoot Dec 2013 #22

It's alright, OneGrassRoot. I can be as wise as Yoda...... marmar Dec 2013 #24

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Welcome, yogini 1221! OneGrassRoot Dec 2013 #39

We're on the cusp BainsBane Dec 2013 #36

No wonder I stay lost... OneGrassRoot Dec 2013 #38

I think if yr parents were baby boomers, you'd be Gen X... Violet_Crumble Dec 2013 #91

Yeah, my parents are boomers BainsBane Dec 2013 #92

LOL. I know that feeling! Violet_Crumble Dec 2013 #94

+1 Blue_Tires Dec 2013 #48

We're Cuban Missle Crisis babies htuttle Dec 2013 #78

And also "I Have a Dream" babies. OneGrassRoot Dec 2013 #80

Isn't there a gap between GenX and millenials? NoOneMan Dec 2013 #27

You're generation Y. Warpy Dec 2013 #31

Just looked it up. I'm both! Im twice as ignored. NoOneMan Dec 2013 #34

Gen Y. TDale313 Dec 2013 #35

No. Gen Y ARE the Millennials. Xithras Dec 2013 #58

That's because a lot of Xers were suckers for Reaganism Warpy Dec 2013 #30

True loyalsister Dec 2013 #40

I was surprised to discover abelenkpe Dec 2013 #53

I have a Rand Paul lover in my family loyalsister Dec 2013 #81

It is changing, although not as quickly as you or I would like. Warpy Dec 2013 #54

We were kids when Reagan was president n/t kcr Dec 2013 #41

That's why so many were suckers for his fairy tale economic ideas Warpy Dec 2013 #51

Bull. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #64

"Plus, We listened to ted nugent and the Amboy Dukes... while you had that Michael Stipe crap!" Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #65

LOL kcr Dec 2013 #74

Baloney. Gen X starts, by most reads, in 1964. That means at best only the VERY oldest Gen X'ers Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #62

RTFP Warpy Dec 2013 #66

RCMP Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #67

I'm one of the dreaded baby boomers, Blue_In_AK Dec 2013 #82

I would totally agree with all of that. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #83

I understand. Blue_In_AK Dec 2013 #84

I don't know. I was pretty politically engaged in my 20s, and I still am, now. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #86

I think maybe all of us get caught up in raising our families Blue_In_AK Dec 2013 #88

Nah, I mean, so much of where I come from, how I see things, is rooted in Boomer stuff Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #90

Historically lower numbers of GenXer's were born in this Country than say Boomers or Mills... Tikki Dec 2013 #32

I gave up being tired hearing baby boomers talk about themselves d_r Dec 2013 #37

We GenXers do get ignored...that stupid 60 Minutes story about how "millenials" are too anneboleyn Dec 2013 #42

yeah we were always d_r Dec 2013 #44

I read an article a while ago that said GenX has similarities to the Silent Generation. tammywammy Dec 2013 #75

I am timeless MyNameGoesHere Dec 2013 #43

Sometimes I feel like a number Boom Sound 416 Dec 2013 #45

No news is good news. n/t leeroysphitz Dec 2013 #46

Up until this moment I did not know I was a generation x member. Born in 1978. hrmjustin Dec 2013 #47

we actually are a pretty small group arely staircase Dec 2013 #49

X and Y are unknowns. Language is important. Choose a memorable name. nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2013 #50

"Baby Boomer" sounds like it describes a fart smothered in a diaper. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #59

Fine, you don't like it. But you remember it. No offense. nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2013 #85

See, man, that's what you Boomers and Millenials don't understand about Gen X. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #87

Yes. But I was a wild child at partying, so I like it. nt slor Dec 2013 #52

I am quintessential Gex X MadrasT Dec 2013 #55

Seems to me very few Millenials or Boomers quite grasp the importance of R.E.M.'s album Murmur Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #57

+1000 JCMach1 Dec 2013 #79

Born in '72 gen-X'er, checkin in mike dub Dec 2013 #60

I get lost Paulie Dec 2013 #61

Sorry to inform you but the Boomers were into flannel shirts flamingdem Dec 2013 #63

Go really old school when you get to coffee house mstinamotorcity2 Dec 2013 #68

You know no one gives a damn about you when you don't even merit blame. TheKentuckian Dec 2013 #69

hey, better to fly under the radar and avoid the bullshit... while listening dionysus Dec 2013 #70

I know. We're assholes too. We deserve some blame for Guy Whitey Corngood Dec 2013 #72

Did you guys know that... jkirch Dec 2013 #73

I'm worse at what I do best / And for this gift I feel blessed / Our little group has always been... devils chaplain Dec 2013 #89

That's what the X means, yeah? Recursion Dec 2013 #93

Bumping...nt Jesus Malverde Dec 2013 #95

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