Education level has become best predictor for how someone will vote

[RoryN]

I am shocked - shocked, I tells ya!

Why education level has become the best predictor for how someone will vote

Trump’s rise over the past three election cycles, Sosnik argued, “accelerated and completed this political realignment based on education that had been forming since the early ’70s, at the beginning of the decline in the middle class.”

As the US transitions to a 21st century economy, there’s a rift between the people who attain education – “that’s become the basic Democratic Party,” he said, comparing them with people who feel left behind, “that group of voters is now the modern Republican Party base.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/politics/the-biggest-predictor-of-how-someone-will-vote/index.html

 

[Politruk]

So conservatism and ignorance are equivalent?

No surprise there, really.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Wow! That's some fucked up logic there.

 

[JohnEngelman]

It is almost comical that poorly educated angry white men, who are angry about their declining incomes, think that Trump will help them.

 

[Politruk]

It is almost comical that poorly educated angry white men, who are angry about their declining incomes, think that Trump will help them.

They want back the time in America -- roughly from WWII to the mid-1970s -- when it was possible for a white man, at least, who had only a high-school education to earn a middle-class income. When Trump promises to "Make America Great Again," that is what they hear him saying.

Of course, the reason that was possible was that labor unions were so strong, then.

Trump never says anything about bringing back unions.

Stranger still, nobody ever calls him out on that, either. Not even the remaining unions.

 

[lessOHmo]

CNN LOL

 

[Politruk]

CNN LOL

More credible than Fox, anyway.

 

[MajorRewrite]

I think the idea that MAGAs are angry about their income is overblown. We’re taking about people driving $40,000 pickup trucks. And they own homes.

They aren’t truly mad about anything. They pretend to be upset about whatever Trump and the propaganda sources tell them to be upset about.

MAGAs support Republicans in the same way they support their favorite NFL team — mindlessly and with passion. It’s not a rational decision.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I am shocked - shocked, I tells ya!

Why education level has become the best predictor for how someone will vote

Trump’s rise over the past three election cycles, Sosnik argued, “accelerated and completed this political realignment based on education that had been forming since the early ’70s, at the beginning of the decline in the middle class.”

As the US transitions to a 21st century economy, there’s a rift between the people who attain education – “that’s become the basic Democratic Party,” he said, comparing them with people who feel left behind, “that group of voters is now the modern Republican Party base.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/politics/the-biggest-predictor-of-how-someone-will-vote/index.html

Buried deep in that article is a genuinely surprising turn of events.

Background: Republicans love off-year election cycles because they count on apathy from younger voters to not get out and vote except in Presidential election years....they can stuff some really nasty amendments and fringe candidate into state and national politics.

But since Trump got elected in 2016, that 40 year old script has been flipped: Boomers are growing apathetic (ESPECIALLY since the Supreme Court shat out the Dobbs decision...Boomers have decided their work here is done!) but Gen-X and Millenials have been turning out in (relative) droves.

You can pinpoint the groundswell became a movement: When Kansas, one of the most conservative states in the midwest, got a seismic shock when voters turned out in force to create a state constitutional amendment allowing abortion. Indiana sure as hell noticed, Republicans immediately withdrew a similar amendment from their ballot the next month.

Teh times, they are a-changin'.....

 

[butters]

the biggest war is ALWAYS the war on education... dems are fighting for education to improve, to reach more people, to provide access and the wherewithal to procure study equipment and actually teach reality; this reflects in how a more enlightened mind tends to vote.

old school-republicans see education as a badge of status for the wealthy, and how name-dropping schools can lead to greater chances for their own kids at the expense of the plebs. They don't believe in a great education for everyone, and that poor people need to remain poor so they are grateful for the opportunities to work shit jobs for shit pay.

an informed mind makes better choices; and informed mind understands the dangers of climate change and the dangers of allowing a person like trump to get back into the White House.

an ill-informed mind tends to trust the shysters, the con-men, the grifters and liars... they are more willing to give them a pass on 'colorful' language since they believe the false promises while, at the same time, can't wrap their brains around the fact trump means what he says about being a dictator.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Buried deep in that article is a genuinely surprising turn of events.

Background: Republicans love off-year election cycles because they count on apathy from younger voters to not get out and vote except in Presidential election years....they can stuff some really nasty amendments and fringe candidate into state and national politics.

But since Trump got elected in 2016, that 40 year old script has been flipped: Boomers are growing apathetic (ESPECIALLY since the Supreme Court shat out the Dobbs decision...Boomers have decided their work here is done!) but Gen-X and Millenials have been turning out in (relative) droves.

You can pinpoint the groundswell became a movement: When Kansas, one of the most conservative states in the midwest, got a seismic shock when voters turned out in force to create a state constitutional amendment allowing abortion. Indiana sure as hell noticed, Republicans immediately withdrew a similar amendment from their ballot the next month.

Teh times, they are a-changin'.....

Just wait till this happens with 2A....