The Washington Post wrote a story about why Gen-Xers are so strongly Republican. No, really. Apparently, they can’t seem to understand why the generation that grew up in the 80s at home by themselves watching MTV, John Hughes movies, and prank-calling people (yeah, that was a thing before cellphones, youngsters) likes to be left TF alone.
That’s really the basis of Gen-X.
Leave us alone.
We don’t want your programs, your money, your talking points, your agendas, or any of that other happy horse crap that GenZ and millennials seem to thrive on.
Just leave us alone.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
Why are Gen-Xers, uniquely among the age groups, so strongly Republican and weakly Democratic? BTW, this new @nytimes poll is not unique in showing this. pic.twitter.com/7IRN6aidHw
— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) October 18, 2022
Yeah, I know, Gen-X makes you mad because we don’t CARE if we make you mad. Ain’t it great?
And c’mon, weakly Democrat? Democrats are WEAK. Ain’t like we got time for that.
Gen X puts incredible value in individuality, not group membership. This is basically the plot of the Breakfast Club, we identify as ourselves, not as a social or interest group. That attitude is not consistent with today’s Democrat Party. https://t.co/brHmS6kdSK
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) October 18, 2022
Bingo.
Love The Breakfast Club reference … I relate most of all to the Basket Case, in case you were wondering.
Yay me, lol.
But back to it …
We don’t want a label.
We don’t want to fit in.
We want to do our own thing.
And for whatever reason, people in other generations want to vilify this about us. Heck, WaPo wrote an entire article about us, trying to figure out why we are the way we are.
They’ll never really understand, and you know what, as Gen-X, I don’t care.
