[magellan]

Reed Galin (Rich Galen's son), was born in 1976, which puts him at the latter part of GenX, and just prior to the GenY/Millennial. That provides an interesting observation point. People born in the mid-1970s were protected from influence from the Nixon and Carter years, and the early 1980s recession.

Therefore, Reed Galin's points should be able to resonate with not only GenX, but early GenY.

As someone who was born a decade earlier, I remember watching the zenith of America, Americans walking on the moon, followed a few years later by watching Nixon resign and later Saigon fall on that same black and white console TV. A few years later I watched Americans taken hostage in Iran. And outside in the real world, an depression-level economic collapse in my town and state.

That is why Reagan and Reaganism is so powerful to me. The Goldwater/Reagan western states libertarian Republican philosophy, combined with the Friedman/Laffer economic philosophy, is the most cogent, logical, political-economic philosophy I have heard.

The "system", and the blame game just pisses me off. It is like watching Atlas Shrugged play out in real time.

Like minded GenXers need to organize our own PAC.

[Sequoyah101]

he Goldwater/Reagan western states libertarian Republican philosophy, combined with the Friedman/Laffer economic philosophy

Best times I ever knew. The rest of the last 56 years that I remember has been pretty much a wash.