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View Poll Results: Which party values education more?
Democrats 110 74.32%
Republicans 38 25.68%
Voters: 148. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-30-2017, 02:07 PM
 
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I would hardly call someone with a BA in something like Art History to be educated.
Why not? You're going to tell me that Tucker Carlson and Dinesh D'Souza, for example, aren't "educated" because they have History and English degrees?
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Old 12-30-2017, 02:17 PM
 
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Definitely Democrats.

Republicans are too busy trying to insert religion into textbooks and pass it off as "science". You can't be anti-science and FOR education. It just doesn't work that way. They are also actively sabotaging the public school system. They seem to have a problem with poor and middle class children getting an education.
Since Democrats refuse to recognize and teach that boys have penises and girls have vaginas, they shouldn't point fingers and name call "anti-science" at anyone else. /facepalm/
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Old 12-30-2017, 02:18 PM
 
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My state's most successful school systems are in towns the GOP dominates in.

Nationally, inner city schools spend more per student, with horrible results.
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Old 12-30-2017, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Florida
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How many Republicans save money to send to college vs. the democrats?
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Old 12-30-2017, 02:22 PM
 
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Even in 1980 1/3 of the delegates to the Democrat Convention were teachers or spouses of teachers. There's no question the Democrats favor teachers unions more. And the education industry is part of the Democratic Party, a huge part.

Democrats favors kids (and not only kids) spending more time in schools. They want free pre-K right through free college. What they want to do with kids all this time isn't mainly education. You can see what they want from the way college kids vote and how they vote the first few years they're out of college: they want them to vote Democrat. It's part of building their coalition: blacks, the young, recent immigrants. Not to mention the people who work in schools and colleges and who depend on them for their living and on their expansion for their career hopes.

As far as education, they're against innovation and charter schools. They're against private and parochial schools. If they only had the strength then, they would have prevented tuition assistance at Catholic universities. But that train left the station long ago.

The health and education industries are Democrat domains. It's no accident that they are the two most expensive industries in the world and receive more money than anything else government is involved in.
Aside: What I've found very interesting is that they are indeed soliciting immigrants, yet their entire platform goes against the heart and soul of immigrant families: father as patriarch, strong family unit, religious, etc. Immigrants do not hold democrat ideals, but for some reason the democrats always go for their vote.

Democrats generally vote for whatever will put a wedge between child and parents. That's why the prolonged schooling and early schooling. Gotta get those kiddies away from mom and dad!!! Get em into the machine!!!
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Old 12-30-2017, 02:25 PM
 
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We can see from this thread so far that Republicans do not value liberal arts education. So, the social sciences, language, or really any subject that has you thinking beyond cold, hard numbers is greatly undervalued. Unfortunately for the right, the social sciences are the ones that shape people into greater, more empathetic human beings so I'm not at all surprised that Republicans often do not value them.

Trump style Republicans view any education unfavorably. More often than not, they see education as "indoctrination by the left."
Cold, hard numbers... fall under liberal arts.
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Old 12-30-2017, 02:32 PM
 
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Both Democrats and Republicans value education. The Rinos in power right now don't but those aren't true Republicans.

You'll find more of a difference between the North and South than you will between the parties.

For example, take a look at a state like FL, MS, OK and compare it to states like MT, ND, CT, MA, NJ. It has nothing to with parties.
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Old 12-30-2017, 02:32 PM
 
Location: Blackistan
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Cold, hard numbers... fall under liberal arts.
You're right, but I meant the gamut of liberal arts education, including the humanities. Not just math.
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Old 12-30-2017, 03:13 PM
 
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It's no secret that Democrats always want to fund education, and Republicans always want to de-fund it.


There is an underlying theme that apparently Republicans prefer an ignorant electorate, people who don't read, people who aren't used to be seriously focusing on an issues, people who aren't used to applying logic, people with no knowledge of history, people who can't distinguish between reliable and false reports.
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Old 12-30-2017, 03:15 PM
 
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Democrats love indoctrinated drones. That's why they want to send everyone to college, so they can be exposed to and brainwashed by hardcore left wing radicals masquerading as "educators". Indoctrinate them while their minds are still weak and susceptible to brainwashing. Then, they will be perfect little slaves until they are old and feeble, ready to be disposed of and replaced by the next batch of mindless drones in training. Sad that parents and students are devoting large sums of money to this unnecessary practice. Even more sad that lefties have convinced large numbers of Americans that this is necessary for society.

Left wants group think and indoctrination. The right values wisdom over group think, and desires people to think independently and avoid becoming sheeple marching to their own slaughter. Wisdom is not handed out like a college degree. It is acquired via real life experience.

Same could be said about religion. Who practices that more?
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