Re:College became the default – Let's rethink that
by druddha on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:32PM
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Given the voting divide based on education, people in the U.S. are getting something else out of college education. I have no issue with shoehorning more liberal education into primary education, but a liberal democracy cannot survive if blue-collar workers have no historical context and vote for authoritarians who are intent on destroying democracy.
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Re:College became the default – Let's rethink that
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:49PM
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In addition to what gruez said, this is disgustingly elitist. "They're too uneducated to know how they should vote! They need to get an education, so we can tell them how to vote!"
Do you wonder why Democrats are having trouble connecting with blue-collar voters? Attitudes like this are a big part of it.
Re:College became the default – Let's rethink that
by zthrowaway on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:58AM
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As someone who was blue collar for years before landing a tech job, I am amazed at how out of touch people are on here at times.
Re:College became the default – Let's rethink that
by gruez on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:39PM
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I'm not sure what's more authoritarian, the "authoritarians" that you decry, or the implication that we should educate people so they vote on the correct side of the "voting divide".
Re:College became the default – Let's rethink that
by zozbot234 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:43PM
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I think what GP meant to say is that educated people are more likely to bother to vote at all, which suggests that they might be putting some thinking behind their voting choices and not be totally driven by short-sighted ideological thinking.
Re:College became the default – Let's rethink that
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:50PM
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Don't think so. The complaint was that blue-collar people vote wrong, not that they don't vote.