Democrats don't understand what it means to be educated

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the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Hmmm. I thought that was DEI.

 

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Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

I felt fine already.

 

[Slartibartfast]

I felt fine already.

I changed my earlier post after deciding to be nicer. I will restate:

Ultimately, you will need to discuss this with various HR departments which put in a degree requirement for various advanced jobs.

 

[Big Brother]

Just because you have that degree doesn't mean you can perform the job. Two different things.

If democrats are so intellectually superior, why couldn't they figure out a way to beat a bunch of knuckledraggers in an election? Or, how was it possible that an uneducated mass of MAGA Hillbillies outsmarted those Ivy League Einsteins? Democrats are all so intellectually gifted, yet they all think the reason Harris lost was not being able to communicate effectively. So, the MAGA morons running Trump's campaign were able to communicate more effectively than the Ivy League educated elite running her campaign? I think the average plumber has more than enough education and intelligence to create a campaign to beat an uneducated serial liar grifter rapist seditionist insurrectionist domestic terrorist Nazi Hitler fascist senile convicted felon criminal misogynist racist in an election. Yet the intellectually superior democrats couldn't. If I were graduating from HS today and wanted to go to a university, I think I would go to Switzerland to study. The American universities today are seriously failing their students with all this political BS, and charging them 50K a year for it.

 

[Slartibartfast]

If democrats are so intellectually superior, why couldn't they figure out a way to beat a bunch of knuckledraggers in an election? Or, how was it possible that an uneducated mass of MAGA Hillbillies outsmarted those Ivy League Einsteins? Democrats are all so intellectually gifted, yet they all think the reason Harris lost was not being able to communicate effectively. So, the MAGA morons running Trump's campaign were able to communicate more effectively than the Ivy League educated elite running her campaign? I think the average plumber has more than enough education and intelligence to create a campaign to beat an uneducated serial liar grifter rapist seditionist insurrectionist domestic terrorist Nazi Hitler fascist senile convicted felon criminal misogynist racist in an election. Yet the intellectually superior democrats couldn't. If I were graduating from HS today and wanted to go to a university, I think I would go to Switzerland to study. The American universities today are seriously failing their students with all this political BS, and charging them 50K a year for it.

Post #21 states the reason why quite clearly.

As a culture, we do not value intelligence.

 

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If democrats are so intellectually superior, why couldn't they figure out a way to beat a bunch of knuckledraggers in an election? Or, how was it possible that an uneducated mass of MAGA Hillbillies outsmarted those Ivy League Einsteins? Democrats are all so intellectually gifted, yet they all think the reason Harris lost was not being able to communicate effectively. So, the MAGA morons running Trump's campaign were able to communicate more effectively than the Ivy League educated elite running her campaign? I think the average plumber has more than enough education and intelligence to create a campaign to beat an uneducated serial liar grifter rapist seditionist insurrectionist domestic terrorist Nazi Hitler fascist senile convicted felon criminal misogynist racist in an election. Yet the intellectually superior democrats couldn't. If I were graduating from HS today and wanted to go to a university, I think I would go to Switzerland to study. The American universities today are seriously failing their students with all this political BS, and charging them 50K a year for it.

It's hilarious when I realize that those Liberal dummies are a notch below garbage.

 

[Loulit01]

They talk a lot of shit but when they get seriously ill they go to doctors with degrees. Unless they go to witch doctors and I wouldn't put it past them.

 

[Big Brother]

Post #21 states the reason why quite clearly.

As a culture, we do not value intelligence.

OK, I normally avoid his posts, but went back to read it. To me, that post exemplifies just how far removed from reality the democrats have become. As an old school democrat I am shocked at how unliberal the democratic party has really become. There should be no excuse in the universe for why Trump won in 2014 and in 2024, yet he did because the democratic party has completely flipped and became everything it once detested. I never thought a political party could become worse than the GOP during the two terms of GW Bush, but it happened. I guess it is just going to take an inordinate amount of time for the intellectually superior to figure out what really went wrong.

 

[Slartibartfast]

OK, I normally avoid his posts, but went back to read it. To me, that post exemplifies just how far removed from reality the democrats have become. As an old school democrat I am shocked at how unliberal the democratic party has really become. There should be no excuse in the universe for why Trump won in 2014 and in 2024, yet he did because the democratic party has completely flipped and became everything it once detested. I never thought a political party could become worse than the GOP during the two terms of GW Bush, but it happened. I guess it is just going to take an inordinate amount of time for the intellectually superior to figure out what really went wrong.

What went wrong is that we had high inflation due to COVID and we had the fairly typical cycle of a new president making gains in congress.

 

[MSgt]

Just because you have that degree doesn't mean you can perform the job. Two different things.

Too true:

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Bachelor of Business Administration. But believes in PizzaGate and Qanon, and that 9/11 was a hoax, orchestrated by the "deep state."

Donald Trump: Bachelor of Science in economics. But has bankrupted different businesses six times and proclaims himself the "king of debt." Has FOX News allowed you all to figure out his tariffs scam yet?


Perhaps the actual issue is that anybody can go through the motions of getting an easily reachable degree. But if you are a born idiot, you just become an idiot with a degree. In the meantime, these are the "educated" right-wing leaders that deny Global Warming science and the science of a global pandemic.

 

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Too true:

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Bachelor of Business Administration. But believes in PizzaGate and Qanon, and that 9/11 was a hoax, orchestrated by the "deep state."

Donald Trump: Bachelor of Science in economics. But has bankrupted different businesses six times and proclaims himself the "king of debt." Has FOX News allowed you all to figure out his tariffs scam yet?


Perhaps the actual issue is that anybody can go through the motions of getting an easily reachable degree. But if you are a born idiot, you just become an idiot with a degree. In the meantime, these are the "educated" right-wing leaders that deny Global Warming science and the science of a global pandemic.

There's plenty of idiots on both sides but at least the Right knows what a woman is.

 

[MSgt]

What went wrong is that we had high inflation due to COVID and we had the fairly typical cycle of a new president making gains in congress.

That's their disinformation. Trump is inheriting low inflation.

What is high is the cost of common goods, which is an issue of Trump/Biden tariffs. Notice that Republicans hammered at "inflation" instead of tariffs. This was on purpose. To criticize Biden's tariffs, meant also having to criticize Trump's tariffs. And with Trump promoting even more tariffs? They used "inflation" as a hot button to hide away the actual problem. And when prices remain high and get higher under Trump's new tariffs, they will default to..."um...its because Trump inherited a wrecked economy and "inflation."

 

[Slartibartfast]

That's their disinformation. Trump is inheriting low inflation.

What is high is the cost of common goods, which is an issue of Trump/Biden tariffs. Notice that Republicans hammered at "inflation" instead of tariffs. This was on purpose. To criticize Biden's tariffs, meant also having to criticize Trump's tariffs. And with Trump promoting even more tariffs? They used "inflation" as a hot button to hide away the actual problem. And when prices remain high and get higher under Trump's new tariffs, they will default to..."um...its because Trump inherited a wrecked economy and "inflation."

I agree that if Trump is able to enact his economic plans, we will see much higher inflation.

 

[choiceone]

I find it fascinating that so many DP people think being educated means getting a college degree and qualifying for a "good job." Back in the day, going to college to get educated meant respecting the ideal of objective empirical truth and learning about how to reason, how to think critically, and how to serve that truth and perhaps a higher truth. All sorts of people throughout history have been persecuted in their pursuit of truth. They have been thrown into poverty, suffered the ruination of careers, undergone torture, all because they made a commitment to truth. But getting educated means making that commitment whether you succeed or fail, get rich or go bankrupt, live long or die young, because if it isn't true, it's nothing.

A person who doesn't know that, left or right, engineer or unemployed, rich or poor, isn't educated.

A pox on how shallow this thread is.

 

[MSgt]

There's plenty of idiots on both sides....

Yet, you people can never actually compare an idiot on the left to the mass of absolute idiots on the right. It's not "the left" who deal in conspiracy theories. They aren't the ones building political platforms on Birtherism, Qanon, and science denial. They aren't the ones constantly caught in sexual scandals. Hey, is tomato paste on pizza a vegetable? They aren't the ones promoting false claims of election fraud with no evidence, as their President secretly plots to steal the election with a fake elector scheme, culminating with a mob's attack on the Capitol for all the world to see. Notice how when antifa or BLM marched in D.C. they didn't do that? But THEY are the enemy, huh?

This game, where you pretend that both sides are messed up, is why you are represented by people who expect you to embrace Qanon and other such idiocy as political war cries. And how can they so easily use you people? That's the personal question you should find answers to.

but at least the Right knows what a woman is.

An incubator for her rapist's baby? One who deserves rage for not dating you?

You know who else treat women like trash, while pretending that it is about respect? Islamists.

 

[weaver2]

The Liberal's world seems to be collapsing around itself. President Trump has broken them. It couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. (but... but... but... Trump is a Nazi, convicted felon, racist and rapist. And he steals children's allowances! )

Sonny Hostin may have unveiled the real reason why the Democrats lost the election, but she had it all wrong. She recently said on "The View," that "What we did not have is white women, who voted about 52% for Donald Trump – uneducated white women is my understanding."

One of the realities of why the Democrats lost this election in the landslide is thinking they have a monopoly on defining what being "educated" means in America today and here’s the reality of what this word means in America today. Let’s examine this.

click here to read... unless you are triggered by Fox News. If that's the case then here is your binky.

Conservatives are either whining about and hating what is taught in public schools or they are whining that elites with college educations sneer at them or they are jealously sneering at the college educated as woke snob neo-something or other, oppressors of Trump and admirers of Marx.

What IS your problem? Get a degree and quit whining.

 

[phoenix2020]

If democrats are so intellectually superior, why couldn't they figure out a way to beat a bunch of knuckledraggers in an election? Or, how was it possible that an uneducated mass of MAGA Hillbillies outsmarted those Ivy League Einsteins? Democrats are all so intellectually gifted, yet they all think the reason Harris lost was not being able to communicate effectively. So, the MAGA morons running Trump's campaign were able to communicate more effectively than the Ivy League educated elite running her campaign? I think the average plumber has more than enough education and intelligence to create a campaign to beat an uneducated serial liar grifter rapist seditionist insurrectionist domestic terrorist Nazi Hitler fascist senile convicted felon criminal misogynist racist in an election. Yet the intellectually superior democrats couldn't. If I were graduating from HS today and wanted to go to a university, I think I would go to Switzerland to study. The American universities today are seriously failing their students with all this political BS, and charging them 50K a year for it.

I mean, those Democrats apparently found a way to thoroughly steal the 2020 election without leaving a single shred of evidence. Four years later and you’ve still not managed to explain how they did it. So, clearly, their education enables them to do what a MAGA can only deceive as magic.

 

[MSgt]

Conservatives are either whining about and hating what is taught in public schools or they are whining that elites with college educations sneer at them or they are jealously sneering at the college educated as woke snob neo-something or other, oppressors of Trump and admirers of Marx.

What IS your problem? Get a degree and quit whining.

In other words, perpetual victimhood. It's the one thing that unites them in their boring quest to blame absolutely anything and everybody they can for their personal problems and their provided-for, invented crusades.

 

[phoenix2020]

But republicans don't get degrees, much less advanced degrees, because they are uneducated. Democrats need to believe this to support their intellectual superiority.

Republicans get degrees.

MAGA foot soldiers by and large lack them although I’m sure there are a number who managed to get through community college. Of course, MAGA Elites are much better educated but that’s because their role is to grift the likes of you.

I'm cracking up at just how far you are going out of your way to demonstrate you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, especially concerning me. But, you are college educated so you know everything about me, based on a few posts on an anonymous political forum, right? What many independents and republican college educated people have learned is that the democrats who think they are so intellectually superior because they went to college is the biggest absurdity going on at the moment. You are all just embarrassing yourselves.

I just think it’s weird how you haven’t even made it out of high school yet you are making these wild, fictitious claims about college because you heard some drivel on AM radio.

What are we going to hear next from you? They’re eating the dogs? Harris steered hurricanes? Jewish space lasers? Speaking of which, how can you even claim that “no” liberal is an engineer when there clearly are enough of them to design, build and launch a religious space laser? I mean, c’mon dude. Your own MAGA betters are undermining your own claims, and humiliating you in the process.

Seriously, take some to listen and learn from Marjorie before you try to own the leftist filth but botch the landing again.

 

[BitterPill]

Wait a minute, you mean there were some conservatives in graduate level BME? Are they still uneducated MAGAts? Strange that anyone would admit they are a conservative in any university in America today for fear of being ostracized and expelled. It wasn't like that in the 80's, but then the democrats hadn't yet invented Identity Politics to mind**** everyone into submission to the democratic party.

They are RINOs.

They will be destroyed.

MAGA.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Republicans get degrees.

MAGA foot soldiers by and large lack them although I’m sure there are a number who managed to get through community college. Of course, MAGA Elites are much better educated but that’s because their role is to grift the likes of you.

I just think it’s weird how you haven’t even made it out of high school yet you are making these wild, fictitious claims about college because you heard some drivel on AM radio.

What are we going to hear next from you? They’re eating the dogs? Harris steered hurricanes? Jewish space lasers? Speaking of which, how can you even claim that “no” liberal is an engineer when there clearly are enough of them to design, build and launch a religious space laser? I mean, c’mon dude. Your own MAGA betters are undermining your own claims, and humiliating you in the process.

Seriously, take some to listen and learn from Marjorie before you try to own the leftist filth but botch the landing again.

Side note: There is nothing wrong with a community college degree. I got my associates at one, which eventually lead to my bachelors and now I am working on my masters.

 

[phoenix2020]

Side note: There is nothing wrong with a community college degree. I got my associates at one, which eventually lead to my bachelors and now I am working on my masters.

Agreed.

Mad props to MAGA who managed to get a community college degree. Obviously they’ll have to hide it lest they be branded a liberal elitist, but all they need to do is put on a Let’s Go Brandon hat and talk about gender studies majors and no fellow MAGA will think twice about whether they belong.

 

[MSgt]

I find it fascinating that so many DP people think being educated means getting a college degree and qualifying for a "good job." Back in the day, going to college to get educated meant respecting the ideal of objective empirical truth and learning about how to reason, how to think critically, and how to serve that truth and perhaps a higher truth. All sorts of people throughout history have been persecuted in their pursuit of truth. They have been thrown into poverty, suffered the ruination of careers, undergone torture, all because they made a commitment to truth. But getting educated means making that commitment whether you succeed or fail, get rich or go bankrupt, live long or die young, because if it isn't true, it's nothing.

A person who doesn't know that, left or right, engineer or unemployed, rich or poor, isn't educated.

A pox on how shallow this thread is.

Well, its not just DP people. Long has it been a default to declare that a college degree will get you a better job. This is clearly not necessarily always true, but one will make more money as a lawyer or a doctor than a cashier at Wal-Mart.

The rest of what you stated is, of course, very true. This is exactly why a person who gets a Bachelors in, say history, will also need to take courses in science, economics, math, art, language, etc. Only about half of that Bachelors is actually in history. It's about making a well rounded person who can think. All things tend to tie together. Postgrads get a massive, heavy dose of only intense focus on history. But that Bachelor's, no matter the field, will be about making a person who should be capable of assessing situations and issues with a measure of intelligence. Of course, once a political Party starts leading its manipulated faithful down a path where "Qanon" is seen as actual fact, they have failed their education. It is not the other way around.

 

[NuffSaid]

Liberals don't study engineering, the sciences, mathematics and many other subjects that require critical thinking and problem solving skills. In the early 80's I studied engineering at UPenn and was the only slightly left leaning "bleeding heart" liberal in the program and just about everyone was conservative. Liberals have always studied Gender Studies yet still can't define what a woman is, believe there are 200+ genders and it is perfectly fine if someone identifies as a mop. But they are the educated ones. If Trump created a virus that only killed college educated liberals the economy would actually improve. That's just how useful these college educated liberals really are.

What an ignorant post.
Why are you advocating killing people who went to college and got degrees?

 

[trumptman]

The Liberal's world seems to be collapsing around itself. President Trump has broken them. It couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. (but... but... but... Trump is a Nazi, convicted felon, racist and rapist. And he steals children's allowances! )

Sonny Hostin may have unveiled the real reason why the Democrats lost the election, but she had it all wrong. She recently said on "The View," that "What we did not have is white women, who voted about 52% for Donald Trump – uneducated white women is my understanding."

One of the realities of why the Democrats lost this election in the landslide is thinking they have a monopoly on defining what being "educated" means in America today and here’s the reality of what this word means in America today. Let’s examine this.

click here to read... unless you are triggered by Fox News. If that's the case then here is your binky.

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.