Posted on 07/28/2015 6:43:56 AM PDT by GoneSalt
In the last few weeks, Americans (and the media) have watched in awe as a New York real estate magnate prone to bellicose behavior and hyperbole has become the GOP's leading candidate for the White House.
But how did this come to be? A lot of it has to do with education.
Trump's support is strongest with Republicans in the Midwest, conservatives across the country who do not have a college degree and (perhaps not surprisingly) those who report the most negative views of immigration and Mexican immigrants in particular, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released last week.
To be clear, the poll found that 60 percent of all Americans support the idea of offering undocumented immigrants currently in the United States some form of legal status, and 57 percent told pollsters they believe that immigrants strengthen the country. But there are plenty of people who see things differently. And those people appear to be concentrated among whites, Republicans and those with lower levels of education.
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The less educated seem to do a lot better than the smart educated ones living at home .
Marginalization is one of the steps towards re-education.
What would Wesley Clark do?
What a pompous a$$. Just another cliff dweller from the big city that has nothing better to do then looks down her nose at the masses.
condescending urbanite snobbery is what the wash post specializes in.
i wish the world could go Galt. i’d love to see the looks on their faces as they pull up to Whole Foods in their priuses and find the shelves clear. no food. no water. no electricity. no nuthin’. 3 days without water and you die. 3 weeks without food and you die. lots and lots of those urbanites wouldn’t survive the month. the fact is that the hard work of the ones that they look down on is what’s responsible for allowing them to lead lives of excess in those big cities.
... and not brainwashed by the ultra-lib ivy-league schools that produced the likes of "mental giants" Sheila Jackson Lee and Marie Harf.
I didn’t go to college.
I worked hard, payed my bills and raised a Godly family. Everything I have is by sweat and I have the worn out back and leather hands to show for it.
This affirmative action liberal ain’t no better than me or my family and frankly I don’t give a DAMN what she thinks about me.
Apparently the reporterette thinks it does, thus proving that she's either an idiot or a liar.
That’s been a common practice of the left since I started paying attention.
“If you were only smarter, you’d think like I do.”
Just checked out Ms Janell Ross and she looks a lot like Muchell, if she had a younger sister!
The pic in yellow - Michael Jackson?
Uh oh! That must make me some kind of freak since I have a master’s degree and find Trump’s non-PC speeches refreshing. Should I surrender myself for a public flogging? Obviously nobody with my education level should possibly think the way I think. /sarc
In reality, that attitude is pretty much a tautology. They indoctrinate and brainwash pretty much everybody who attends college, and usually that indoctrination and brainwashing produce the desired results. So “educated” in these depraved times in reality means “indoctrinated and brainwashed.” It’s those rare folks that reject the indoctrination and brainwashing and still get through that they simply can’t understand.
I’m sure that eventually they’ll get around to declaring anybody who doesn’t think the way they think as insane. It worked for the Soviets, so I’m sure that’s the left’s ultimate aim.
You are so right . . . those less educated, stupid if you will, Americans finally figured just how evil the “educated” political class really is. They finally figured out what an incredibly lousy job they are doing.
Truth will always offend. It’s a simple fact.
Anyone who doesn't follow the positions of the Washington Post has jest gotta be dumb as a box of rocks. It's writen down somewhere.
Just checked out Ms Janell Ross and she looks a lot like Muchell, if she had a younger sister!
Apparently the reporterette thinks it does, thus proving that she’s either an idiot or a liar.
Somehow I don’t think she’s either or,why limit yourself when your just so much better than everyone else?
Jenell would just like to kill all the whiteys.
Everything she writes is about hatin’ whitey. She should bow and give thanks everyday for whitey creating a system where she would make a living spewing her useless opinions.
Less educated? No, less brain-washed? YES.
A few years back a couple libs discussed the need for free college for all. I got them to admit it was not about learning skills for a better job, but about brainwashing into them all this lib PC crap and how good socialism is.
So based on the lib definition of educated, yes, I’m proud to be uneducated.
I think I’ll start the Morons for Trump movement.
Check Your FReepmail
Another simple fact is when you draw lots of fire you must be close to your opponent’s vulnerabilities. The Left fears Trump. So does the GOPe.
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