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The entire liberal agenda is based on the premise that a college degree is the one and only acceptable way to judge a person's intelligence while most liberals with degrees these days are hopelessly ignorant and unprepared for daily life.
And they will never, ever in a million years accept that only about 32% of Americans over 25 have a degree because many of them live in a very insular world, kind of a bubble.
I have 2 with enough credits for a third just as a note.
And counties with high food stamp usage also voted heavily for Trump; that tells you something about these anti-intellectual Trump supporters. The more the white working class despises education, the further they will fall behind urban areas in quality of life and be left behind by globalization.
And counties with high food stamp usage also voted heavily for Trump; that tells you something about these anti-intellectual Trump supporters. The more the white working class despises education, the further they will fall behind urban areas in quality of life and be left behind by globalization.
Not having a college degree does not equate to despising education.
What's your explanation for the population subgroup with the highest high school dropout rate and which voted 88% for Clinton?
Ok--I'll get bashed for being elitist, but what was Trump's big promise besides 'Da Wall'?
High wage unskilled or semi-skilled labor jobs--like they 'used' to have (when unions ruled). A fantasy, of course. It's not going to happen. Technology has taken over manufacturing and even the Wizard of Trump cannot do anything to change that. Some retraining is necessary and some new industries are necessary. Going back into the mines is definitely not the answer. Other countries are passing us by with education and progress.
Either people train for new jobs or things will not change for them. Unions will not be making a comeback. Corporate greed is not going away. The corporate welfare infrastructure plan is not a long-term plan. The defense industry will not save the workers--we just don't need all the stuff we built during the Cold War. Obama tried to get infrastructure projects through and even subsidized it with federal money. Jerks like Florida's very own Rick Scott turned it down. Some infrastructure spending might pass now that the GOP isn't trying to obstruct--we'll see. Maybe Trump will pull an FDR.
You make it sound like we have to many people and to few jobs and that it will continue to get worse.
Its a hopeless situation and we just need to accept it.
Makes perfect sense. Trump's lack of logic, his inability to make a sustained argument, his ignorance of the Constitution, his reliance on demagoguery instead of facts, his unending lies*, his juvenile vocabulary** - all these are things that wouldn't much bother less educated voters.
Not having a college degree does not equate to despising education.
What's your explanation for the population subgroup with the highest high school dropout rate and which voted 88% for Clinton?
Poor urban voters realize that strong investments in social programs, infrastructure, and education are beneficial. They rightly refuse the believe the conservative trickle down nonsense. Take a look at the worst states for socioeconomic advancement, they are mostly conservative.
Poor urban voters realize that strong investments in social programs, infrastructure, and education are beneficial. They rightly refuse the believe the conservative trickle down nonsense. Take a look at the worst states for socioeconomic advancement, they are mostly conservative.
So you mean free ****? What use is "investment" in education if those it's aimed at don't take advantage of it?
You are nothing more than yet another elitist who doesn't "get" why Trump won who makes himself feel good by degrading and deriding others he determines to be unworthy.
A note before you call me whatever pejorative you choose, I didn't vote for Trump.
There's another thread going on right now about Kennedy. One poster who is very hurt about the premise that JFK wouldn't recognize the Democratic Party today is absolutely orgasmic over a film clip he posted. Kennedy is explaining his trickle down tax cut.
Well, so what? When you allow millions and millions of people who didn't even complete jr high school and don't have a legal right to be here to compete against the less educated Americans and lower their standard of living, well then yes, they will vote against the candidate that supports the most educated Americans. They may be unintelligent and have lower IQs on average, but that's a pretty smart decision.
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