What do you mean? Tell the faithless, hedonistic BOOMERS they aren't allowed to divorce and abort anymore? That would have gone over well... half of GenX wasn't even able to vote yet.
In my defense back then I was young and (even more) stupid, and notably I was not in a leadership position of the party pounding the drumbeat of "family values". Presumably those doing so were aware the alternative was the nation imploding in a couple generations...and did nothing about it as far as I can tell.
What made the "family values" stuff so unpalatable to me at the time was seeing a man my parents age lecturing us about it and was dealing with years of fallout from their divorce. It took a long time before I actually understood what Republicans were trying to say.
What do you mean? Tell the faithless, hedonistic BOOMERS they aren't allowed to divorce and abort anymore? That would have gone over well... half of GenX wasn't even able to vote yet.
Do I have all the answers? No.
In my defense back then I was young and (even more) stupid, and notably I was not in a leadership position of the party pounding the drumbeat of "family values". Presumably those doing so were aware the alternative was the nation imploding in a couple generations...and did nothing about it as far as I can tell.
What made the "family values" stuff so unpalatable to me at the time was seeing a man my parents age lecturing us about it and was dealing with years of fallout from their divorce. It took a long time before I actually understood what Republicans were trying to say.