‘TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE UNEDUCATED’

spiked ^ | April 8,2016 | TOM SLATER

[Hojczyk]

On this point, animal-shelter worker Joe was unconvinced: ‘Trump is tapping into the people that are prone to hate, fearmongering and people who are just angry.’ As I move around the pen, ‘I get why they’re angry’ is said time and again. But it’s little more than a throat-clearing exercise. When it comes down to it, the anti-Trump protesters think his supporters are either racist, or plain stupid. ‘People who support Trump are uneducated’, said postgrad student Sally. ‘They don’t have broad minds about what’s going on. I think it’s intelligence.’ For all the talk of ‘making America hate again’, the people who were really being smeared or scapegoated at this rally were Trump supporters – working-class voters who dare to support someone who strays from the PC-politico script. Indeed, the only harsh words thrown at immigrants emanated from the designated free-speech area: as a group of Latin-American men walked past, heading to the rally, a gaggle of college students screamed ‘You’re on the wrong side!’.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike Donald Trump. He’s a crass opportunist, who, for all his talk of sticking it to the freedom-squishing status quo, has more than his fair share of authoritarian tendencies. But this protest in a sleepy New York suburb, and the wretching that Trump has sparked among the cosmopolitan classes nationwide, isn’t really about him. It’s about his supporters: the dumb rednecks who, Sally and Co tell us, know not what they do.

Trump may not go the distance at the Republican convention in July, but this fear and loathing of the masses is here to stay.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

animal-shelter worker Joe was unconvinced:

Ummm. I've spent the last 35 years outthinking computers for a living. Sure you wanna put your brains up against mine, Joe??

[Cats1]

Mom and dad didn’t go to college, and yet they could gut a deer, fix the truck and tractors when they didn’t work, build an extension onto the house... They ran a business for around 25 years, and raised cows on top of it. Needless to say, I’m pretty damn proud of my ‘uneducated’ parents.

[MeanWestTexan]

“Easily manipulated, perhaps. .....Trump is ... one of the most old-fashioned nasty and corrupt pols we’ve ever had.”

Concur.

[jokemoke]

OMG. I’m a Trump supporter and I’m educated... Proud graduate of The Ohio State University!!!

[Rennes Templar]

Very little difference between Cruz supporters and Kasich supporters - one year of high school.

[BagCamAddict]

“TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE UNEDUCATED’”

There is absolutely no proof given for this assertion.

Have you the saying, 'There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damn lies, and statistics.' ?

They are using the third kind of lie. Here's how it works. These are hypothetical numbers:

If Trump gets 100 votes, distributed like this:
15 votes = didn't graduate high school
29 votes = high school education
17 votes = some college (didn't get a degree)
24 votes = college or associates graduate
15 votes = post-graduate study or post-graduate degree

They can say that Trump gets most of his support from the working class, and people who didn't finish college. That is a true statement, because 15 + 29 + 17 = 61% of the votes coming from people who didn't finish college. The numbers above reflect the US education statistics exactly (see chart below). If these were Trump's numbers, then it could be said that Trump's votes reflect AMERICA, exactly.

If Cruz gets 100 votes, distributed like this:
2 votes = didn't graduate high school
37 votes = high school education
10 votes = some college (didn't get a degree)
31 votes = college or associates graduate
20 votes = post-graduate study or post-graduate degree

They can say that Cruz gets most of his support from the more-educated class. That is also true statement, because 31 + 20 = 51% of the votes coming from people who finished college. However, these numbers DON'T reflect the US education statistics exactly (see chart below). Therefore, it means that a LOWER percentage of lower-educated people would be voting Cruz, and a HIGHER percentage of higher-educated people would be voting Cruz vs. Trump. If these were Cruz's numbers, then it could be said that Cruz's votes DO NOT reflect AMERICA, exactly.

If the above two scenarios were Trump and Cruz's numbers, If I wanted to put my own personal bias into a media talking-point, I could say: Trump appeals to "EVERY MAN", whereas Cruz appeals to the "MORE EDUCATED, ELITE, RULING CLASS." That would be a true statement, because Trump's numbers exactly mimic the educational statistics of the United States, and Cruz's numbers do not.

Edcation in America, 2010:

[rightwingcrazy]

“They don’t have broad minds about what’s going on. I think it’s intelligence.”

What an idiot.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

You are an insufferable boor.
I’ve already told you that once, and it it is still true!

[Elsie]

Put food in your
tummy tum tum tum
tummy tum tum tum
tummy tum tum.

If you haven’t any teeth
But you’re about to eat meat
you can gum it with your gummy gum gums.

[Elsie]

They ran a business for around 25 years, and raised cows on top of it.

HMMMmmm...

[Ted Grant]

I’ll put my academic credentials (BA Vassar, JD, member of the NY bar) against anyone. I may not be the most educated or the smartest bloke, but you can’t say I am uneducated.

The critics are the closed minded ones.

[Cats1]

Lol. That doesn’t look good.

~~Thinks to self maybe I should have wrote had a farm and owned a sawmill. :)

[Dagnabitt]

Below is a list of people to whom your opinion matters:

[Dagnabitt]

The fan base is a reflection of their hero:

When the Reality Tee Vee star attempts to discuss policy, the results are often cringeworthy. He's either tripping all over his liberal beliefs or he's spouting nonsense and gibberish. Actual words uttered by this man:

HEWITT: Mr. Trump... Dr. Carson just referenced the single most important job of the president, the command, the control and the care of our nuclear forces. And he mentioned the triad. The B-52s are older than I am. The missiles are old. The submarines are aging out. It’s an executive order. It’s a commander-in-chief decision.

What’s your priority among our nuclear triad?

TRUMP: Well, first of all, I think we need somebody absolutely that we can trust, who is totally responsible; who really knows what he or she is doing. That is so powerful and so important. And one of the things that I’m frankly most proud of is that in 2003, 2004, I was totally against going into Iraq because you’re going to destabilize the Middle East. I called it. I called it very strongly. And it was very important.

But we have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game. Frankly, I would have said get out of Syria; get out – if we didn’t have the power of weaponry today. The power is so massive that we can’t just leave areas that 50 years ago or 75 years ago we wouldn’t care. It was hand-to-hand combat.

The biggest problem this world has today is not President Obama with global warming, which is inconceivable, this is what he’s saying. The biggest problem we have is nuclear – nuclear proliferation and having some maniac, having some madman go out and get a nuclear weapon. That’s in my opinion, that is the single biggest problem that our country faces right now.

From Trump’s response, it’s clear that he either has no idea what the nuclear triad is, or that he had no idea what the question was and just decided to go with some sort of free-form jazz riff on the topic of “anything nuclear.” But even after Hewitt threw Trump another clue, he replied with total gibberish.

HEWITT: Of the three legs of the triad, though, do you have a priority? I want to go to Senator Rubio after that and ask him.

TRUMP: I think – I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

Adding insult to bizarre injury, the exchange ended with Marco Rubio explaining the nuclear triad in detail.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Good thing all Blacks have Ph.D.’s. [/sarcasm]