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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 206: Acostin' Fragile Don's Pathetic Press Conference
metroid composite 11/09/18 10:14:24 AM #479:	Paratroopa1 posted... Jakyl25 posted... LapisLazuli posted... I legitimately don't know where you would go to find young Republicans other than an organized meeting. Where do they go? What do they do? So many distasteful jokes spring to mind I have an answer that from me is both honest and also a bit mean, which is "not college." I think all of my friends are college educated and I never personally met anyone in college with politics I would describe as even remotely right-leaning, although it's certainly possible that I didn't pry hard enough on all of them. I dunno if things would be different if I hung out in different circles. I definitely met people in college who leaned right, specifically in grad school. (Someone I knew in the Math department at McGill who felt Bush was a better president than Clinton--this was 2002-2003. Similarly, a grad student in a Princeton PhD program who had similar opinions sometime around 2005 or 2006). They had reasonable arguments too. "Clinton had a surplus and a booming economy just because he was riding the 90s internet bubble, but that wasn't because of him, and he didn't actually accomplish that much legislatively." At this point I kind-of agree with that line of argument, although I will note it wasn't for lack of trying early on--the healthcare bill that Bill & Hillary tried to push early in Bill's presidency was actually a pretty cool bill from what I understand. There was just big public backlash, and some strategists told Bill that if he wanted to get re-elected he needed to shift way to the right and Hillary needed to bake cookies (and that's what they did). Granted, this was over a decade ago, and a lot has happened since then. It's entirely possible that neither of the people I met who were in grad school back then are thrilled about Trump now, or even happy about the whole birther/tea party movement under Obama. (Although I imagine they would have voted for McCain and Romney, but after that I really am not sure). --- Cats land on their feet. Toast lands peanut butter side down. A cat with toast strapped to its back will hover above the ground in a state of quantum indecision <cite>metroid composite posted [p:912102530] in Politics C... [t:77181966]...</cite> <quote><cite>Paratroopa1 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Jakyl25 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>LapisLazuli posted...</cite> <quote>I legitimately don't know where you would go to find young Republicans other than an organized meeting. Where do they go? What do they do?</quote> So many distasteful jokes spring to mind</quote> I have an answer that from me is both honest and also a bit mean, which is "not college." I think all of my friends are college educated and I never personally met anyone in college with politics I would describe as even remotely right-leaning, although it's certainly possible that I didn't pry hard enough on all of them. I dunno if things would be different if I hung out in different circles.</quote> I definitely met people in college who leaned right, specifically in grad school. (Someone I knew in the Math department at McGill who felt Bush was a better president than Clinton--this was 2002-2003. Similarly, a grad student in a Princeton PhD program who had similar opinions sometime around 2005 or 2006). They had reasonable arguments too. "Clinton had a surplus and a booming economy just because he was riding the 90s internet bubble, but that wasn't because of him, and he didn't actually accomplish that much legislatively." At this point I kind-of agree with that line of argument, although I will note it wasn't for lack of trying early on--the healthcare bill that Bill & Hillary tried to push early in Bill's presidency was actually a pretty cool bill from what I understand. There was just big public backlash, and some strategists told Bill that if he wanted to get re-elected he needed to shift way to the right and Hillary needed to bake cookies (and that's what they did). Granted, this was over a decade ago, and a lot has happened since then. It's entirely possible that neither of the people I met who were in grad school back then are thrilled about Trump now, or even happy about the whole birther/tea party movement under Obama. (Although I imagine they would have voted for McCain and Romney, but after that I really am not sure). --- Cats land on their feet. Toast lands peanut butter side down. A cat with toast strapped to its back will hover above the ground in a state of quantum indecision</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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