Back to the 70s

So Presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee wants to bring the metric system to the United States so our primary system of measurement will be the same as most of the rest of the world. Didn't Carter and Reagan try that in the 70s and 80s? And how'd that work out for them? I remember being in school in the 1970s and 80s and having the whose Eurasia thing pushed on us. Europe and Asia were going to become one continent called Eurasia. Yeah. Okay. That didn't happen either, did it? I saw Jon Stewart talking about the Chafee/metric system idea on The Daily Show last week and he pretty much summed it up by saying that Chafee wouldn't be President because he didn't understand the basic premise that Americans don't care what other countries are doing. So what if Europe, Asia, Australia, etc. are all using the metric system. We do want over here in the USA. The rest of the world refers to soccer as football too, but does that mean we should change also just so we fit in? Ha! I don't see that happening, at least not in my lifetime. Football for us will always be the Lions, Bears, Cowboys, etc. not Manchester United.