not so sure. included among those i call my friends are a number of homeless people and a couple of billionaires. while that does not necessarily speak to their education levels, it does illustrate significant diversity of backgroundsI get the feeling you feel the same way, Bubba.
History is not being discussed. This is a thread about Trump’s uneducated base.
Wise people definitely do not support a lying demagogue like Trump.
We don't call them Universities of Indoctrination for nothing.
But wise people support the liars and charlatans like Biden?
It's not a new premise. Fact does not equal pretention.
Donald Trump still king of the ‘poorly educated’
President Trump famously declared that he loved the “poorly educated,” during the 2016 campaign, as voters with lower levels of schooling delivered an overwhelming share of their votes to him.www.washingtontimes.com
Biden Vs. Trump: The College Education Divide Is Wider Than Ever
CNN's June 8, 2020 poll reveals just how polarized views of Donald Trump and Joe Biden have become depending on whether one has a college degree or not.www.forbes.com
Why Are White, Uneducated Voters Voting for Trump?
There are whole states that are not making quality education a high enough priority.www.newsweek.com
America Is Divided by Education
The gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it.www.theatlantic.com
Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote For Trump
Sometimes statistical analysis is tricky, and sometimes a finding just jumps off the page. Here’s one example of the latter. I took a list of all 981 U.S. count…fivethirtyeight.com
Poorly educated voters hold the keys to the White House
A new paper suggests that voters without degrees are uniquely placed to pick the next presidentwww.economist.com
Donald Trump loves the 'poorly educated' — and they love him
He may have meant meant "less educated," but the numbers say they love him, too.www.usatoday.com
It's so funny. They want everyone to have a 4 year degree.
Democrats have a lock on the less educated minority vote and used to have a lock on the less educated union vote. The reason Trump won is because democrats abandoned and now mock the less educated, working class that they used to champion.
The perfect example of how education =/= wisdom.
Because there’s an established ruling class in America who benefit from democratic policies. The professional managerial elite. Whereas working class and middle income voters have been screwed by the left, their wages are depressed by foreign immigrants, families destroyed by feminism and contraception, housing market destroyed by environmental policies, now and appropriate House is out of reach in many cities, “educated” members of the PME can afford mortgages where there is good schools, if you’re a deplorable your kid has to go to a school with a rapey teacher protected by unions, in a school where some kids don’t speak English and aren’t expected to. In other words, the brunt of the power plays of people like Biden fall on the high school crowd, the benefits will go to the upper rungs of society
I agree.
Yeah, most people who could not get engineering degrees pretend they are smarter than the people who proved they are smarter. It's how humans cope with failure.
For the first ten years of my career, earning those degrees (I have two) was actually a problem. Try as I might, I simply could not respect anyone at work who was not educated as an engineer. If the company president was an ME or EE with an MBA, I was fine. But, if he was some chump with a Political Science undergrad who took a few business courses in grad school, I looked down on him. Needless to say, I quit a lot of jobs early on.
I think he appeals to their cultural grievances, and gives them scapegoats (the elite, immigrants, etc.) for their problems, which allows them to evade grappling with the fact that the religious figures and people they have relied on for years in the media and politics have left them uncompetitive and unprepared in a modern world.
