Opinion: How to be cool

[All Along The Watchtower]

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[opebo]

So... why isn't this guy Jason Chaffez a Democrat? Sounds like all the policies he considers 'cool' are Democratic, and all the uncool is Republican.

[Donerail]

So... why isn't this guy Jason Chaffez a Democrat? Sounds like all the policies he considers 'cool' are Democratic, and all the uncool is Republican.

Chaffetz was a Democrat (Utah co-chair for Dukakis '88), but changed after meeting Reagan in 1990. He was also a campaign manager and chief of staff for Huntsman. Extremely fiscally conservative (slept on a cot in his office), criticized Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, wants to ban full-body scanners, leave Afghanistan, etc.

[opebo]

So... why isn't this guy Jason Chaffez a Democrat? Sounds like all the policies he considers 'cool' are Democratic, and all the uncool is Republican.

Chaffetz was a Democrat (Utah co-chair for Dukakis '88), but changed after meeting Reagan in 1990.

Bizarre - I wasn't even aware Reagan was still alive in 1990 - in any case he can't have been cognizant.  So it is true - Reagan was like the pod people, and took over this guy Chaffez by osmosis.

[memphis]

Chaffetz's point was not about moderating policy. He's one of the most extreme members of Congress. He just wants a fresh advertising approach that will reach young people better. Essentially, he thinks young people are so dumb that they will vote Republican if they can just convince Justin Bieber to endorse them. Fact is, conservative policies since Reagan have screwed most young people sideways. Wealth is now so concentrated that most of are fighting for the scraps that will allow us to pay off our college loans. Take heart, GOP. You may face political destruction, but only because you've succeded beyond anybody's expectations at strengthening America's aristocracy.

[TJ in Oregon]

He's right. It's very "cool" to be extreme as long as you're a liberal.

[Dereich]

Chaffetz's point was not about moderating policy. He's one of the most extreme members of Congress. He just wants a fresh advertising approach that will reach young people better. Essentially, he thinks young people are so dumb that they will vote Republican if they can just convince Justin Bieber to endorse them. Fact is, conservative policies since Reagan have screwed most young people sideways. Wealth is now so concentrated that most of are fighting for the scraps that will allow us to pay off our college loans. Take heart, GOP. You may face political destruction, but only because you've succeded beyond anybody's expectations at strengthening America's aristocracy.

Of course huge numbers of college students were also Paulites. Following your train of thought his policies would be even worse for young people, but he was beating Obama with them in some polls. In the end its the GOP's image and non-economic issues that drive college students to the Democrats.

[Lief 🗽]

Of course huge numbers of college students were also Paulites.

No...

[Wisconsin+17]

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Nope. Back in the days of Reagan, you could get a job, earn enough to buy a house, a car, raise a family, all without incurring debt - pay the house off and own the surrounding land.

That's the nation I grew up in.

Today? Not the case. Liberal policies of endless spending have ensured that these jobs are nowhere to be found, and their attacks on full employment and self-sufficiency have also ensure that a generation of kids are going to be lost.

We've had 12 years now without an inflation adjusted high in the Dow. 12 years, people.

We have all this debt, and nothing to show for it. And, we're going to be spending the rest of my working life paying it off.

[Alcon]

That's the nation I grew up in.

No it wasn't

[Wisconsin+17]

Yeah it was.

[LastVoter]

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Nope. Back in the days of Reagan, you could get a job, earn enough to buy a house, a car, raise a family, all without incurring debt - pay the house off and own the surrounding land.

That's the nation I grew up in.

Today? Not the case. Liberal policies of endless spending have ensured that these jobs are nowhere to be found, and their attacks on full employment and self-sufficiency have also ensure that a generation of kids are going to be lost.

We've had 12 years now without an inflation adjusted high in the Dow. 12 years, people.

We have all this debt, and nothing to show for it. And, we're going to be spending the rest of my working life paying it off.

That was possible thanks to strong unions and presence of left-wing in the politics from 50's-70's. Under the right-wing presidents of the  last 30 years, namely Reagan, Clinton, and Bush and Obama have undone that. It's still possible to return to the 70's paradise, all we need to do is run a few guillotines in particularly rich neighborhoods.

[memphis]

Ben Kenobi is arguing that America was a conservative paradise until the 1980s, at which point we took a sharp turn left, and that's what is the root of the middle class's demise? That's an interesting take on American history.

[Wisconsin+17]

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Yeah, look at how Detroit has been gutted by Republican adminstration.

[Alcon]

Yeah it was.

whatever you say, canadian

[Wisconsin+17]

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No, I'm arguing that the sharp turn left came in the early 90s. I'm arguing the 80's were very well off in comparison with today.

[Wisconsin+17]

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Whatever you say, Yankee.

[hopper]

So... why isn't this guy Jason Chaffez a Democrat? Sounds like all the policies he considers 'cool' are Democratic, and all the uncool is Republican.

Chaffetz was a Democrat (Utah co-chair for Dukakis '88), but changed after meeting Reagan in 1990. He was also a campaign manager and chief of staff for Huntsman. Extremely fiscally conservative (slept on a cot in his office), criticized Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, wants to ban full-body scanners, leave Afghanistan, etc.

Chaffetz is a libertarian conservative maybe in the Justin Amash cloth?

[Donerail]

So... why isn't this guy Jason Chaffez a Democrat? Sounds like all the policies he considers 'cool' are Democratic, and all the uncool is Republican.

Chaffetz was a Democrat (Utah co-chair for Dukakis '88), but changed after meeting Reagan in 1990. He was also a campaign manager and chief of staff for Huntsman. Extremely fiscally conservative (slept on a cot in his office), criticized Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, wants to ban full-body scanners, leave Afghanistan, etc.

Chaffetz is a libertarian conservative maybe in the Justin Amash cloth?

Essentially.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

the definition of cool

[Holmes]

It's the shades, isn't it?

[opebo]

It's still possible to return to the 70's paradise, all we need to do is run a few guillotines in particularly rich neighborhoods.

Huzzah!  Can't make an omelet without breaking a few villainous eggs.

[Vosem]

It's still possible to return to the 70's paradise, all we need to do is run a few guillotines in particularly rich neighborhoods.

Huzzah!  Can't make an omelet without breaking a few villainous eggs.

But this particular omelette would destroy the entire henhouse, which certainly wouldn't help nutrition and could even, in the worst case scenario, result in starvation.

[justfollowingtheelections]

[MrMittens]

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