As educated Iowans decline, Iowa goes red (Des Moines, Northwood: public schools, to live)

[GraniteStater]

I also do blame the media for inventing the "blue state vs red state" label as it has only steadily increased the divisiveness and corrosive politics of both sides. Go back and listen to interviews from the 1980s and before and one will notice the steady decline of dialogue and debate that was far less corrupted by shorter attention spans and 24/7 news cycles combined with technology overload.

[NCN]

Originally Posted by Cida

This is a disturbing trend on two counts - a less educated population is a bad sign, and, worse, a less education population gulled by empty promises, turning Republican.


Iowa’s Swing to Republicans
Iowa’s status as a swing state in presidential elections may be in doubt. One key reason: not enough college graduates
By Michael Tackett
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/u...publicans.html

This type attitude is why Hillary lost. Maybe they are just not as brainwashed as the college types.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by NCN

This type attitude is why Hillary lost. Maybe they are just not as brainwashed as the college types.

The concentration and growth of jobs in states like Iowa have almost exclusively been in the metro areas, which does match trends in faster population growth in those areas over time. Rural areas have steadily lost population and jobs over time, and low unemployment rates in these areas often mask the dual reality of population decline and out-migration of middle aged and younger populations- resulting in some labor shortages due to very high elderly populations. Iowa is more unique compared to most states as it does have a larger population percentage terms that live in micropolitan counties or completely rural counties. I predict that it will remain a political moderate bellwether overall due to the faster population growth in Des Moines metro area, and Cedar Rapids/Iowa City areas.

[Bluefox]

Originally Posted by NCN

This type attitude is why Hillary lost. Maybe they are just not as brainwashed as the college types.

She didn’t lose actually. Trump lost by 3 mil. Trump just won in the intellectually declining states like Iowa and intellectually bankrupt states like Alabama and West Virginia which have a disproprotiate share of voting power relative to their populations, so he wins the “electoral college”.

[CrownVic95]

Originally Posted by NCN

This type attitude is why Hillary lost. Maybe they are just not as brainwashed as the college types.

Exactly right....and there's no maybe about it.

The "college types" have been told exactly what to think, except that there is no thinking involved. They parrot the lunacy dished-out by their professors in exchange for good grades and membership in the club of the "intellectual" elite. Independence of thought - that is to say, real thought, is punished severely. Their degrees signify compliance with and obedience to the agenda of the left fringe.

[CrownVic95]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

I also do blame the media for inventing the "blue state vs red state" label as it has only steadily increased the divisiveness and corrosive politics of both sides. Go back and listen to interviews from the 1980s and before and one will notice the steady decline of dialogue and debate that was far less corrupted by shorter attention spans and 24/7 news cycles combined with technology overload.

The divisiveness has exploded as a direct result of the massive spread of the infection that is the "progressive" left, which was enabled via control taken of the public education system. Prior to the 80s, the nuts espousing fringe left views were safely kept at the margins and were very small in number.

Prior to the 80s, the overwhelming majority of Americans shared similar moral and cultural views. Political battles were almost entirely about how the economic pie would be sliced. Trump would have been elected with a much greater margin of victory in 1980 than was his in 2016. And Democrats of that day would have gone overwhelmingly for him. Back then, the divisive and degenerate progressives that run the Democratic party today were batted away like gnats in your ear. Common sense took care of them in short order.

The agenda of the progressive left that is tearing this country apart never had a chance while common sense was alive and well. So the left had but one avenue remaining....to get control of every young mind, beginning in Kindergarten, before they even had a chance develop their own independent thought processes and, thus, the sensibilities of their parents.

But even that strategy would not have had a chance in hell but for white guilt. That's what allowed it to creep, and creep, and creep, and for the strings of the PC straight-jacket to be continually tightened.

So here we are. And the only thing that has really changed is the extent to which we have allowed the enemy's army to grow.

[601halfdozen0theother]

It would be nice if only people who actually live in Iowa now or who have lived in Iowa in the recent past were the ones posting on this thread. (For the record, I moved away from Iowa in November, 2012.)

Those of you who have never lived in Iowa should keep your wackadooishness from both ends of the spectrum in the Politics etc. forum. People are tired of your yapping.

[Stevie]

Originally Posted by Bluefox

She didn’t lose actually. Trump lost by 3 mil. Trump just won in the intellectually declining states like Iowa and intellectually bankrupt states like Alabama and West Virginia which have a disproprotiate share of voting power relative to their populations, so he wins the “electoral college”.

April 1 Special Report: How Illegal Voters Cost Trump the Popular Vote | Politics & Power | OZY

Study: More Noncitizens May Have Voted Illegally in Elections Than Previously Thought - Breitbart

I also seem to recall Obama encouraging illegal immigrants to vote on election day:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCLO0WBvhF8

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

I also do blame the media for inventing the "blue state vs red state" label as it has only steadily increased the divisiveness and corrosive politics of both sides. Go back and listen to interviews from the 1980s and before and one will notice the steady decline of dialogue and debate that was far less corrupted by shorter attention spans and 24/7 news cycles combined with technology overload.

This is only a small part of the many ways in which we've been propagandized, but it is nonetheless true.

[my54ford]

The underlying sentiment here seems to be that Farmers are a bunch of ignorant savages. I hope some of you don't have you mouths full of food when you're badmouthing the folks that produce a lot of that....