Yuppies are the palpable atmosphere of 80s conservatism. Day to day it's nice to have all this excellent food, pleasing to see these fun clothes. It's a relief too to feel that these young, successful people, people who will have a lot of power in the future, are not going to support a massive turning back of the clock on civil liberties, are not going to want the US to go blundering into Central America and who knows where else. But, in the end, it is a lifestyle that feels arid, joyless, boring, one posited on indifference to others. Yuppies don't just not care that others are poor; they also don't know that their comfortable lifestyle depends on others being poor. The USA has always been rather effective at keeping that idea at bay - that is why socialist traditions have found it so hard to make headway there. If yuppies may put some sort of block on the wilder reaches of Reaganism, they are also proof against other visions.