[SemperFidelis]

Hope springs eternal.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Great Post! Printing this one out for my teenagers!

BUMP!!

[painter]

I''ll Bump that!!

[philman_36]

Published in the December 19, 2001 issue of Ether Zone. Copyright © 1997 - 2001 Ether Zone.
Old stuff with a very new face.

Semper Fi!

[liberallarry]

Great post. Best critique of PC I've read in quite awhile.

But, as is usually the case in political criticism, the criticism is better than the proferred solutions.

The author is a little light on criticism of the Right. When it is dominant - although it begins with the idea of meritocracy - it usually slides into the mistaken identification of wealth as proof of merit and abandons the idea of noblesse oblige - which is necessary in any decent society - in favor of unfettered greed.

At that point the Left rises and the cycle begins anew.

[nothingnew]

Man!...there are some good posts this A.M. Thanks SF.

(Check out Mark Steyn posted just above yours)

FMCDH

[Neets]

Bookmarked,,thanks for the post.

[MissAmericanPie]

Sounds like some in Generation X should be renamed the Independents. I love it, bookmarked, thanks for the post.

[It'salmosttolate]

BuMp for others to read.

[capt. norm]

I'm clicking on "save as" right now. This is a keeper.

[Fiddlstix]

Great Post!
BTTT

[RobFromGa]

bump for the Hope of a brighter American Future. (where Socialism is relegated to history's unmarked graveyard of discarded lies).

[maica]

Many if not most of the Americans who perished on Sept 11 were in their '30s.'
Everyone who perished was 'doing' something that Tuesday morning.
They were not at home watching MTV. They were contributing to the GNP.
I am greatly consoled for the trauma our country has suffered, by the fact that these Gen-Xers seem quite ready to challenge the Clintonesque boomers (who have been running things for so long) for the reins of leadership for our country.

The Gen-Xers can see the world 'more clearly.' And that means more conservatively.

[Batrachian]

"We "Gen-Xer's" understand Marx and Lenin- we had Marxism shoved down our throats."

A nonsensical statement. Did they, for example, have to put their names on a waiting list and then wait 15 years to get an apartment? Did they have to stand on line for 2 hours to get toilet paper? Where they ever interrogated by the KGB? Where they sent to gulags because they where Jews?

Next we'll hear how they lived through a depression.

[Dutchy]

Thoughtful commentary from a "GenX'er" and hope for the future. I'm hopeful that the events of the last 3 months have provoked thought in our fellow citizens that voted for Gore rather than GWB by 500,000 plus.

[Coastie]

This retired Chief is now *almost* convinced the light at the end of the tunnel isn't an oncoming truck.

Semper Paratus

[Skel]

Ronald Reagan bump! Thank you!

[shrinkermd]

Generation "X" came into wide use after Douglas Copeland's book --Generation X" He described this generation as being born between 1965 and 1980. He further indicated that the hallmark of the generation was "underemployed, overeducation, intensely private and unpredictable.

Copeland credited Paul Fussell's book, Class. Professor Fussell wrote a popular book sometime in the mid-eighties dividing American social classes into hidden upper, upper, high middle, mid-middle and low middle. He then added two classes of proletariat, one of the destitutes and a final of the hidden bottom. Sort of as an afterthought, and to make himself feel good, he added a class he called "X". Allegedly, this group avoids class distinctions and is quite independent (just like liberal college professors). I would rather be a drunk like Kingsley Amis than a member of the "X" class.

Fussell's book IMHO is worth a read if you keep in mind he is a classic Northeastern liberal with an exemplary war record in WW II.

It is always worthwhile to hypothesize about groups; however, it is also always dangerous since there is a class consciousness and criticalness that fails to account for wide ranges of individual behavior.

[foreshadowed at waco]

Great article...having GW in the White House at this moment in American history...when our country was attacked and our mission is so clear...has given conservatives an incredible opportunity to voice their ideas and be listened to...whether people voted for him or not the American people love their president...even a lot of leftists feel safer with him in charge...both he and Rumsfeld are plain-spoken men...they inspire trust with their common sense and clear vision of right and wrong...conservatism is a common sense approach to social problems while the leftist believe in a utopian world...Osama taught us that only fools believe in Utopia and fools get cut down when they least expect it...as Reagan said, "Trust, but verify"...

[horsewhispersc]

Yet the "silent majority" has finally begun to speak- in opposing "political correctness" which is merely a code phrase for censorship and a lack of tolerance for Conservative views.

Ever since the internet we have become an information society and we are hungry for truth, now we can find it at our finger tips all around the world. The silent majority includes all political persuasions

[FrogMom]

I have three Gen-X children. They are fiercely pro-life, pro-constitution, pro-military, anti-PC, anti-big Government, anti-public education, anti-Marx... etc., etc., etc. All voted for Bush.

Is this brain-washing? No. I raised them to think for themselves.

My son voted for Clinton in '91 - making up his own mind, listening to the sound-bites but not looking at the facts. It was a bitter lesson for him, he is still ashamed and has looked at the facts almost rabidly in the two subsequent presidential elections.

Maybe this is another lesson that some Gen-Xers have learned - learning from their mistakes.