GenX -er here, with some good news.

In the late 1980s, I was a teenager. All of my friends in school thought Reagan was the antichrist, and that Gorbachev was somehow awesome. I caught a ton of shit (and at least one fight) for expressing admiration for The Gipper.

But then something happened.

They started working for the first time. They started wondering what FICA was and why it took a chunk out of their paycheck...

In my early adulthood of the early 1990s, most of my friends thought the GOP sucked ass and that Clinton was mega-awesome. No fights, just grumbling now.

But then something happened.

They started having kids and thought beyond the end of their noses. They started buying homes and began looking ahead. They started wondering why the man who said 'I feel your pain' wasn't doing shit to alleviate it, but private industry was. They started to wonder why the political class was acting like a bunch of medieval nobility, but they were just scraping by. They wondered why they watched the ATF put kids to the torch and blame some religious nuts for it, and why that same government started shooting infants out of their mothers' arms just because some dude made a sawed-off shotgun for money (look up Ruby Ridge). They saw their loser stoner buddies living off the government teat while they worked their asses off. They started wondering why they only heard one sanctioned (liberal) political view on TV and radio, but no others...

This led to lots of wonderful things... the 1994 Contract With America. Rush Limbaugh. Tax Cuts. Welfare Reform....

Fast forward to today.

The majority of my generation is now passing the 50-year-old mark. We're seeing grandkids. The majority of us who are productive in society are voting red as fuck, while TBH only the ignorant, the tenured profs, the gov't employees, and the tralier-park-trash among us would intentionally vote blue.

As it was with us, so it shall be with you. Give it time.