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Unfortunately, throughout the history of the world, intellectuals and the educated have been hunted down and exterminated, periodically. Cambodia being one of the most prime examples. Soviet Union under Stalin being another. The Taliban being the current perpetrators. Generally when uneducated religious zealots gain power, exterminating what they believe to be the intellectual elite, is at the top of their agenda.
Three of your examples - and we could add a dozen more to the list - are that of educated atheistic zealots gaining power and exterminating religious intellectuals (among others). As for the Taliban and other Mohammedan tyrannies, they focus on exterminating their fellow Mohammedans, as there isn't much of an intellectual elite in their countries to begin with.
Three of your examples - and we could add a dozen more to the list - are that of educated atheistic zealots gaining power and exterminating religious intellectuals (among others). As for the Taliban and other Mohammedan tyrannies, they focus on exterminating their fellow Mohammedans, as there isn't much of an intellectual elite in their countries to begin with.
With regard to post college voters they are overwhelming democratic and it encompasses, in theory anyone who has had some post graduate training.
Overwhelming is a bit of a stretch. We're talking 10-20 point margins depending on the election.
The Democrats do clearly win scientists and those in academia by overwhelming margins so those large margins have to be counteracted by other groups with advanced degrees (or credits, presumably; there are a lot of people who take some masters-level classes without intending to get a degree) in order for the overall margin to be less large.
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I imagine there are a lot of people out there who have masters, or credit on masters in a wide range of fields, that may not be politically determinative.
That's very true. Their careers are actually more likely to be determinative, as I mentioned earlier. However, not all careers are.
Also, undergraduate majors are certainly less politically determinative.
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Democrat and Republican = parities. Liberal and conservative = ideology. Conservatives, not liberals, founded the KKK. Let's remember that at one point the liberal party was the Republican party. That now switched. However not all Democrats are liberal and not all Republicans are conservative.
thats because at that time the liberal party was not named as liberals, but as the liberty party. something that neither the republican nor democrat parties of this day and age even want to be associated with.
ask both parties if the want total liberty for the country as a whole, and both will say no.
thats because at that time the liberal party was not named as liberals, but as the liberty party. something that neither the republican nor democrat parties of this day and age even want to be associated with.
ask both parties if the want total liberty for the country as a whole, and both will say no.
We should be looking for academics who are doers. Otherwise we would have a Bachmann or Palin as president.
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