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Gen X "Conservatives"

By The Daily Dish
Oct 16 2007, 12:34 PM ET

What do they look like? What do they believe? Here's a first stab by one of them:

X-Cons are pragmatic idealists. They have strong faith in religion, small government, and the free market. Yet they are not Utopian and have no illusions that politics will make life much better (though they believe government can make it much worse).

That pretty closely identifies me. I might add that if this is what an X-Con looks like, they cannot be too happy with what has happened to the Republican party these past few years.



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