I’m a GenX at 41 and I’ll tell you what instilled conservative values in me. We GenX kids were the kids who had to actually endure (during the 70’s) the social engineering created by the boomers in the 60’s. The forced busing still certainly sticks out in my mind. I have actually seen with my own eyes minority boys openly groping and fondling embarassed crying white girls in school and when the white kids tried to do something about it, chanting and gang fights broke out and then the cops showed up—and then on the news that night they were talking about how us white kids were causing trouble and being intolerant. Seen it with my own eyes and been there. I’ve seen with my own eyes a minority guy pull his pants down and urinate right in the school hallway in front of god and everybody.
But what I remember most in a geo-political sense was the impact of Jimmy Carter and how depressed everything seemed. The gas lines—everybody just seemed poor—the world was coming to and end crap.

And then Ronald Reagan was such a breath of fresh air. I will be forever grateful to his memory for saving us from whatever crap that was in the 70’s.

I dispise the counter-culture hippie crap—because I had to grow up under the power of such people.