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[rareboy]

Let us be crystal clear here.

This is exactly the plan. And they are learning from their mistakes. To try it in another blue state. Project 2025 is ruthless and remorseless.

For fuck's sake Americans. Do your fucking job.

 

[NotHardUp1]

 

[NotHardUp1]

Duffy at the WH today.

At least Zelensky wore socks.

Is the Secretary Qatari?

 

[NotHardUp1]

I'm beginning to wonder if our middle class gives a rat's ass about the government as long as they get their SUVs and privilege.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Coq a l'orange

 

[rareboy]

I'm beginning to wonder if our middle class gives a rat's ass about the government as long as they get their SUVs and privilege.

Nailed it. It is how autocrats take over.

They make enough people comfortable enough to allow the kleptocrats to rule and eventually everyone is in on the game in some way.

There are many millions of Americans who have zero knowledge of what their governments actually do, or interest in elections or even following what is going on.

Because it doesn't affect them as far as they can determine.

 

[steve621]

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this is why education matters

 

[rareboy]

 

[NotHardUp1]

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Unfortunately, that's treating the uneducated as the cause of the GOP's success, a false correlation.

Several relevant facts vitiate. First, educational measurement can be assigned via several criteria, one of which is spending on educatiton. Another is the percentage of population that holds degrees -- high school, college, and graduate. The charts below come from Kristin Blain on Smartick:

https://www.smartick.com/data/unveiling-educational-attainment-in-the-united-states/

For example, California has the highest percentage lacking a high school diploma, yet the state voted blue:

Another chart shows those with bachelor's degrees, and Texas is clearly not in even the two lower brackets. New Mexico, Wyoming, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa and several others all fall below it:

 

[NotHardUp1]

And this map shows states in the 2008 election, and Obama took several that would not correlate if education levels were the primary detereminant:

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[KaraBulut]

When you break it out by race, it's clearer. Specifically, white men...

The relationship between education and partisanship has shifted significantly since the early years of the 21st century.

• The Republican Party now holds a 6 percentage point advantage over the Democratic Party (51% to 45%) among voters who do not have a bachelor’s degree. Voters who do not have a four-year degree make up a 60% majority of all registered voters.
• By comparison, the Democratic Party has a 13-point advantage (55% vs. 42%) among those with a bachelor’s degree or more formal education.

2. Partisanship by race, ethnicity and education

The Republican Party now holds a 15-point advantage among White registered voters and a 6-point edge for voters without a college degree.

www.pewresearch.org

This pattern is relatively recent. In fact, until about two decades ago the Republican Party fared better among college graduates and worse among those without a college degree.

In the last years of George W. Bush’s presidency and the first year of Barack Obama’s, Democrats had a double-digit advantage in affiliation over Republicans among voters without a college degree. For example, in 2007, 56% of voters without a degree were Democrats or leaned Democratic, while 42% were Republicans or GOP leaners. This group was narrowly divided between the two parties for most of the next 15 years, but in the last few years it has tilted more Republican.

And it gets more apparent when you look at post-graduate education:



Wonder why MAGA is going after higher ed?

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[cityboy-stl]

Just tell me this meme didn't make you think Trump supporters are sea squirts.

 

[rareboy]

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Just tell me this meme didn't make you think Trump supporters are sea squirts.

You ae assuming that MAGAts actually had higher cognitive skills and brain capacity?

What has become crystal clear is why Trump declared that he loved the poorly educated. He was likely literally told at some point that they would be his most devoted
supporters.

 

[cityboy-stl]

You ae assuming that MAGAts actually had higher cognitive skills and brain capacity?

What has become crystal clear is why Trump declared that he loved the poorly educated. He was likely literally told at some point that they would be his most devoted
supporters.

I was assuming they eat their own brains to become loyal MAGA zombies.

 

[rareboy]

I was assuming they eat their own brains to become loyal MAGA zombies.

hahahaha

 

[KaraBulut]

The girls were out in their finest frocks and Cover Girl makeup last night at Kennedy Center. Not all of the girls got applause, though.

 

[NotHardUp1]

The last throes of a nation, before the culture wars became the Civil War 2.0.

 

[fallsguy]