One good example of how Democrats have become UNMOORED from reality is the fact that they call anyone without a college degree "uneducated" as if they didn't have a high school diploma.
Talk about alienating the very voters you are supposed to courting, the vast majority of people do not have a college degree. So to say they are "uneducated" is just insulting.
Plus while the number of people with degrees have been growing to be polite, the rigor and actual abilities of those receiving those degrees have not. There are a number of fields now, especially the fields of critical studies, women's studies and so on that basically generate degree holders who spout pure stupidity and nonsense. All their "knowledge" is self-knowledge which means they are ignorant fools.
Democrats should realize that just because someone is an office assistant or a plumber that doesn't mean they are "uneducated". Someone with a high school diploma is not "uneducated".
However if they do want to claim that, since Democrats, their unions and their teachers run all the schools, they can simply consider the label a judgement on the quality of work they are doing for our general population and consent to having vouchers and school choice available for all.
My sister and I are certainly anti-Trumpers, and my mom and dad would never have supported Trump, but they didn't have college degrees.
My mom and aunt were told by their dad that he would not be willing to foot the bill for more than two years of college unless they agreed not to marry and have kids, because it was a waste of money. When my aunt was offered a full tuition music scholarship for her last two years of school if she just paid her living expenses, her mom wouldn't let her do it because she was the eldest, and the eldest was supposed to go into business. But their two sons were sent to college and architectural school and became architects.
As for my dad, he grew up in poverty, got his first job at 12 delivering newspapers, and had to drop out of school at 16, as a straight A student, to help support his mom and sister, who were very ill. He worked as an apprentice to a photographer and self-educated himself about photography courtesy of the Chicago Public Library and his work. He didn't get a high school diploma until he was over 55, long after he had been in charge of photography on a naval air vessel in WWII and had taught photography in college later.
But these people were very well educated, as they read widely, had terrific taste in books, were critical thinkers, etc. And they taught their kids to have a healthy respect for school, studying, aspirations to greater knowledge, and responsibility for critical thought. It takes a lot of self-discipline to become expert in a field of science or art, and they were capable of appreciating that.
They would have considered people who uncritically believe in conspiracy theories, Qanon, Pizzagate, etc., as idiots, and would have thought the behavior of Trump and his MAGA followers vulgar, unrespectful of intelligence, logic, etc. Indeed, the thought of supporting him for president as the daughter of such people would make me so ashamed I would be suicidal.
