2016 Postmortem

This means that most Americans today don't remember a far left presidency. It is 2017, and the children of FDR's era are now dying off. Another tidbit-- this time about 2016. The youngest voters eligible to vote for Reagan (who turned 18 in 1984) are now 50. So that means that only the AARP crowd could vote for Reagan. 2016 was the last federal election where all eligible voters were born in the 20th century (rare to cast a vote at age 117).

I'm a borderline millennial (1980). The first president I actually remember is Bush Sr (admittedly nothing about policy, just his refusal to eat broccoli and Dan Quayle losing to a 5th grader in a spelling bee). I remember nothing about the Reagan years (I was 8 when he left office). In my lifetime, Christianity has always been married to the GOP, employers always had the upper hand and could fire an employee for any reason they wanted to (as ridiculous as some of them are), college (not optional in my family) always meant taking on debt, healthcare was always dominated by making a quick buck and prohibitively expensive, stuff was always made in China, and computers always existed.

THere are stories my parents and (late) grandparents told me that I can't fathom. Stories like being at a job for life, having a pension and healthcare covered completely by your employer, and when things were actually made here.