This explains why the GOP hates higher education.

I wholeheartedly agree that the more education a voter has, the more liberal they lean. A good example is Fox Snooze - My theory is that they are more susceptible to being baffled with bullshit. And, absolutely correct, that the right knows this, and don't want their base to get too educated. They specifically target the uneducated and bigots; and angry old white men.

The ignoramuses used to know when to keep quiet. Now they're right in our faces 24/7.
Thanks Twitter!

When I was in engineering school during a time after Nixon, Ford and Carter, most of my colleagues were conservative, there were some progressives, but few. Today most engineering new hires that I see are progressive or moderate, mainly because there are more women and foreign born people in the field.

The ignorant always want a "strong" leader to tell them what to do and soothe their irrational fears (even falsely). That's what happens when people give up their ability to think and reason.

I used to think they were playing to the base. but the shit that consistently falls from their mouths shows otherwise.

Butt u ain't no librul fo sho.

1) It exposes you to ideas other than those promulgated in your immediate community. Exposure breeds tolerance- behaviors are normalized when we see them. Ideas are normalized when we see them. The right understands this and thus it's reliance on tribalism and us-vs-them mentality.

2) Education pushes back the age of reproduction and drives up offspring intelligence as mothers are typically better able to provide and plan for their offspring. Popping out babies young, something encouraged by the religious right, locks women into cycles of poverty and dependency that their children are increasingly unlikely to escape. One breeds children able to think and act for themselves, the other breeds children who will mindlessly fork over money to organizations that will distract them from their failed American dream.

After all, it's easier to blame someone outside of the "tribe" for it's woes than to practice genuine self reflection. Easier to slam the academics and rail against higher learning when on some level you sense it's something way over your fraking head (and increasingly out of your price range thanks to public education policy and the decline of the middle class/blue collar industry).

There is lots more, but I see no point in preaching to the choir at this time. XD

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans--unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."

Which is why it pleases me no end that Democrats are overall more educated and more interested in higher education now.

This quote resonated with me then and does even more so now:

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Even though higher education was less available to working-class Democrats, now it is consciously spurned by run-of-the-mill Republicans. You know the upper crust are still educating their young at the very best universities because they know better. It greatly benefits them, though, that the majority of the Republican base is ignorant and proud of it.

Because among minority groups those without education will still lean more democratic.

I think one reason white right wingers are hostile to education is because they refuse to admit they are wrong.

Voting boils down to real versus imagined issues. Minorities have had to fight very real issues for a very long time, so their voting tend to be more practical and grounded.

Minorities are forced to live in the ugly real world rather than the rarefied atmosphere of a luxury cocoon like the oligarchs live in, so it stands to reason. Their lives depend on being informed and aware, and they can't miss the obvious fact that Republicans look down on them.

Minorities who support Trump and other Republicans are in denial about the last fact mentioned.

Seem to be coming dumber by the day.