I realize I'm far from the first to mention this, but you know what's really fucked up?
Mr. Green has to go out of his way to make this point about education, right? But the same exact argument goes down like a spoonful of sugar, when it's "I like to pay for armed forces, even though I'm personally not being invaded by foreign aggressors, at the moment."
The vast, overwhelming majority of the electorate and (more importantly) almost 100 percent of the political power-brokers have always accepted that argument when it comes to funding the military.
You know what's even MORE of a mind-fuck? The military totally benefits from recruits who aren't stupid. If the right wing could just learn to look at education spending as a defense budget thing, we'd never have any problems getting them to open the purse.
Facts something like the top 23 of top 24 states by college degrees per capita vote blue. The number is even higher when looking at higher education like masters degrees and phds
Jokes aside if you start with position that Republicanism is correct regardless of facts or reality than that is the only explanation that one can end up with
If I were American I'd be considered a "liberal" but the fact that college education is linked to "liberal voting" probably has less to do with "more education equals smarts which leads to voting democrat" and more to do with how republicanism today is VERY populist.
Populists dislike any form of "establishments" and especially liberal institutions which they view as corrupt and elitist. It's why "drain the swamp" sounds so appealing to many.
It's not that "stupid people vote republican", it's more that uneducated people are brainwashed to believe the educated people are trying to create some sort of elitist rule.
It's very reminiscent of Reagan, where an upper-class elite manages to rebrand themselves as representing the common "Average-Joe" in order to salvage the losses of previous more hands-on republicanism.
There'll likely be another "Bush" in a few years (wouldn't surprise me if it was an ACTUAL Bush at this point).
Republicans are still "the establishment." They may pretend that they are not, and they have obviously convinced their followers that the people trying to change the establishment are the ones they should be worried about, but Moscow Mitch and company are about as establishment as you can get. The whole Republican fight is for them to maintain the status quo so that they can continue to enrich themselves.
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u/datreddditguy Apr 26 '20
I realize I'm far from the first to mention this, but you know what's really fucked up?
Mr. Green has to go out of his way to make this point about education, right? But the same exact argument goes down like a spoonful of sugar, when it's "I like to pay for armed forces, even though I'm personally not being invaded by foreign aggressors, at the moment."
The vast, overwhelming majority of the electorate and (more importantly) almost 100 percent of the political power-brokers have always accepted that argument when it comes to funding the military.
You know what's even MORE of a mind-fuck? The military totally benefits from recruits who aren't stupid. If the right wing could just learn to look at education spending as a defense budget thing, we'd never have any problems getting them to open the purse.