[Cringing Negativism Network]

Why can’t conservatism be cool?

Just asking?

What is it about believing in America which is out of favor, and what is it about not rooting for our side, which is ‘cool’.

I think this is 100% the right side. We just need to also be for American jobs, then we’re set.

100% set.

[MrB]

Think about the definition of “cool” -

it means - “in that state of rebellion to traditional values just below the point of being seen as dangerous”.

Conservatism IS about traditional values - because they’re proven successful.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Why can’t conservatism be cool?"

Because libs won't let it be. Palin was cool, and if Palin were a lib, she would have been treated as a veritable goddess - good looking, intelligent, a maverick, star athlete, beauty queen, flautist, outdoorswoman, independent, compassionate, tough - a real-life Xena or Wonder Woman. But because she was a conservative, she was savaged and bullied and mocked mercilessly.

[Catsrus]

We need to start a new slogan: I was a conservative, when Conservative wasn’t cool. To the tune of Barbara Mandel’s - I was country, when country wasn’t cool. We need to turn this around so people will want to be considered cool! JMO, of course.

[dsrtsage]

“Why can’t conservatism be cool”

Conservatism can’t be cool, because only ideas and behaviors that lead to very predictable social pathologies, and eventual individual misery can be considered cool.

[ckilmer]

Why can’t conservatism be cool?

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Hollywood is surrounded by a Mexican city.

[FourtySeven]

Why can’t conservatism be cool?

Everybody pretty much said what I would to answer your question. If only add: it's not that conservatism "can't" be cool per se, but that it simply is not, because as others have said what makes something "cool" is the perception that it is counter cultural and/or rebellious against traditional values. Something that is unique and contrary to a traditional way of thinking or doing things, which is precisely what conservatism holds dear.

Also anything new is cool.

I would also add however that despite all of this, liberalism/leftism is precisely not "cool" because it doesn't actually go against anything. It actually forces compliance TO a given idea, a given way of doing things. And if one is not compliant, one is not "cool". So it's a catch 22 almost, in reverse.

Now I personally think conservatism is cool, but socially speaking? Would the average Joe agree with me? No. To such "cultural" people, cool is anything against conservatism, and anything their friends tell them is cool.

Like voting for the first black president. That was cool back in 2008 (and to a lesser extent back in 2012) because it was a new thing to do. And it thumbed a nose at perceived (not real) racism. And oh, did I mention it was cool?

Now, not so much. Even Jimmy Falon sees it now.