Gen X Was the Political Generation. Then things changed, and now I’m often told that Gen X were apolitical slackers who got religion when they hit their 30s and became just more corporate sheep.

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[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Those were yuppies. Hippies hated Reagan, Thatcher, Kohl, and wanted the Soviet Union to win the Cold War.

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hippies became yuppies. People that remained hippies may have hated Reagan but there weren't that many of them or he wouldn't have wond by landslide.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nope. There was largely no overlap between the groups. It's a media myth. Sorry you fell for it, but you really shouldn't trust a word they say.

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nah it's a fact sorry