Be kinde to folk. This changeth the whole habitat.
- Manlobbi
Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
No. of Recommendations: 10
We need a better educated populace...
"Overall the Democratic Party has a 13-point advantage (55% vs. 42%) among voters with a bachelor’s degree or more formal education.
Six-in-ten voters who have a postgraduate degree identify with the Democratic Party (61%), while 37% associate with the Republican Party.
The GOP now holds a 6 point advantage over the Democratic Party (51% to 45%) among voters who do not have a bachelor’s degree.
This dynamic has changed over time, as college-educated voters have grown more Democratic and those with less formal education have grown more Republican." (Trump: "I love the uneducated!")
This may seem obvious to regular readers of this board. It's all too apparent that many of our MAGA friends never had the opportunity to learn about media literacy,
critical thinking, the scientific method, or economics 101. I am saddened by this fact. But there is hope. People can grow, learn and change. (I myself am a recovering republican!)
Understanding the world you live in is an important part of your life's purpose.
As George Eliot said: "It is never too late to be what you might have been."
Our freedom depends on it...
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,...it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/pa...
No. of Recommendations: 4
We need a better educated populace...
"Overall the Democratic Party has a 13-point advantage (55% vs. 42%) among voters with a bachelor’s degree or more formal education.
Six-in-ten voters who have a postgraduate degree identify with the Democratic Party (61%), while 37% associate with the Republican Party.
The GOP now holds a 6 point advantage over the Democratic Party (51% to 45%) among voters who do not have a bachelor’s degree.
This dynamic has changed over time, as college-educated voters have grown more Democratic and those with less formal education have grown more Republican." - Bansky
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What a load of elitist horsecrap. There is whole skilled labor force that makes your elitist life style possible and most of them don't have college degrees nor are they asking taxpayers to pay off the loans they used to start their businesses. The blue collar types have every right to participate in elections and they lead to perhaps better outcomes because they are guided by common sense instead of rainbow priorities.
Yikes, you guys have lost touch with the normies. And you wonder why you can't figure out Trump's appeal.
No. of Recommendations: 3
What a load of elitist horsecrap. There is whole skilled labor force that makes your elitist life style possible and most of them don't have college degrees nor are they asking taxpayers to pay off the loans they used to start their businesses. The blue collar types have every right to participate in elections and they lead to perhaps better outcomes because they are guided by common sense instead of rainbow priorities.
Yikes, you guys have lost touch with the normies. And you wonder why you can't figure out Trump's appeal.
It's even dumber than that. Are all college degrees the same?
I'm sure that 100% of Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory graduates all vote democrat. The operative question is, who gives a rip? It's not like either of those "fields" is a real one.
Ditto postgraduate studies like "Doctor" Jill Biden's. Who they vote for is indicative of...nothing.
But what IS indicative of something are the people who post this malarky and think they've scored a point. Well they have...into their own net.
No. of Recommendations: 3
What a load of elitist horsecrap. There is whole skilled labor force that makes your elitist life style possible and most of them don't have college degrees nor are they asking taxpayers to pay off the loans they used to start their businesses. The blue collar types have every right to participate in elections and they lead to perhaps better outcomes because they are guided by common sense instead of rainbow priorities.
Yikes, you guys have lost touch with the normies. And you wonder why you can't figure out Trump's appeal.
100%.
Everyone has different abilities and strength. Lack of formal education doesn't mean lack of critical thinking or real life experience.
IMHO too much education is also an indication of evading/postponing having to "adult".
Mark Twain (IIRC) - "I have never let my education interfere with my schooling."
Trump is a sleazebag as a person and as a businessman (stiffing his employees, contractors and investors). But he was OK as a President, as albaby listed earlier. Swing voters are not buying the apocalypse scenario. And he is slipperier than two eels doing it in snot. Look how quickly he distanced himself from Project 2025. You have to admire his chutzpah.
No. of Recommendations: 5
Trump is a sleazebag as a person and as a businessman
And yet the right seems to try to paint Biden as a sleazebag as a way to disqualify him as presidential material. While I appreciate the honesty about Trump, it sure seems like a double standard to say that it doesn't matter if Trump is a sleazebag, but it does matter that Biden is a sleazebag. And for the record, I don't recall any Biden supporters claiming that he is - the usual claim by Biden supporters is that he's the polar opposite of a sleazebag - and there's frequent push back against accusations about the "Biden crime family" when they arise.
--Peter
No. of Recommendations: 5
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,...it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
This isn't elitist horsecrap, though TJ was an elitist. It's just not horsecrap no matter who says it.
No. of Recommendations: 7
While I appreciate the honesty about Trump, it sure seems like a double standard to say that it doesn't matter if Trump is a sleazebag, but it does matter that Biden is a sleazebag.
I think the point is slightly different. It matters if Trump is a sleazebag...but it stops mattering so much if Biden is also a sleazebag.
The idea is to create a permission structure for people to vote for Trump. Most people, in the abstract, don't want to vote for a sleazebag. They don't imagine they ever would vote for a sleazebag. So if your candidate is a sleazebag, people will not be happy about voting for him.
But one way to eliminate (or reduce) their unhappiness is if there is a permission structure that allows them to justify their vote. They don't want to vote for a sleazebag...but if both candidates are sleazebags, then there's no escaping it. So it's no longer a bad thing for them to vote for a sleazebag, because they don't really have a choice. It cancels out. They're not doing a bad thing voting for a sleazebag, because everyone's voting for a sleazebag.
In fact, the other folks are worse! They're being all hypocritical judging me for voting for my preferred sleazebag, lecturing me about how bad it is to vote for a sleazebag - when they're voting for a sleazebag too! At least I'm honest that my guy is a sleazebag - they're the ones just lying to themselves and everyone else about their guy.
Believing in all that makes it so much easier to vote for Trump. It frees you from the need to deny that Trump is a sleazebag (which is hard) or to create a rationalization for voting for a sleazebag (which is harder). That's the good work that Comer was doing for the GOP - not heading towards any type of formal action against Biden, but creating that permission structure for Trump supporters to be free to love their guy again.
No. of Recommendations: 0
While I appreciate the honesty about Trump, it sure seems like a double standard to say that it doesn't matter if Trump is a sleazebag, but it does matter that Biden is a sleazebag.
I don't think anyone on the Right believes Biden is a sleazebag, no matter what they say in public. His son did misuse his access but that's nothing compared to Trump's family blatantly filling up their pockets.
As to the double standard, absolutely. Trump has charisma. To many he is the messiah who speaks his mind and is here to drain the swamp. He is media savvy.
Biden mumbles when he speaks and hangs around with a vacant expression and with his mouth open when not speaking.
It's a popularity contest. Who is going to be the class president? The bad boy quarterback who promises free pizza or the weird slow kid who mumbles and drools?
No. of Recommendations: 6
Yesterday the illiterate old fool Donald Trump posted this:
"Harris has absolutely terrible pole numbers against a fine and brilliant young man named DONALD J. TRUMP!"
"Pole numbers?" "A fine and brilliant young man Donald J Trump?" Someone needs to take Sundowning Grandpa's phone away, he keeps embarrassing America.
We need a better educated populace...
"Overall the Democratic Party has a 13-point advantage (55% vs. 42%) among voters with a bachelor’s degree or more formal education.
Six-in-ten voters who have a postgraduate degree identify with the Democratic Party (61%), while 37% associate with the Republican Party.
The GOP now holds a 6 point advantage over the Democratic Party (51% to 45%) among voters who do not have a bachelor’s degree."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,...it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
No. of Recommendations: 3
fine and brilliant young man named DONALD J. TRUMP!"
There was a time in this country when a narcissistic old braggart like that would have been shunned as no kind of man at all. He certainly would never have won the support of tens of millions of Americans. Strange times.
No. of Recommendations: 3
The GOP now holds a 6 point advantage over the Democratic Party (51% to 45%) among voters who do not have a bachelor’s degree." - Bansky
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,...it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
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Sounds good as long as you don't get to establish the yardstick of non-ignorance as possessing a bachelors degree.
An unemployable holder of some degree that has no commercial value is begging tax payers to pay off his loan vs an electrician who started out of HS alone but has built his business to now have two trucks and a couple of helpers. He is paying his own truck loans as well as providing a couple of jobs.
As you sneer at the lunch box guy, I ask you, "Who is ignorant here?
No. of Recommendations: 2
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,...it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
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Sounds good as long as you don't get to establish the yardstick of non-ignorance as possessing a bachelors degree.
I agree there are different types of knowledge. The fellow who reads a book to figure out how to put in gas lines in a three story building gets credit, and the ability to deal with people gets credit too. But I'd like for most people to know a basically accurate history of our country, with the least amount of glossing over rough parts of our history. So we know where we came from and migration patterns into different parts of the country should be recognized. We should see ourselves as Americans, but we should recognize our different cultures.
