Why Most Republicans Don’t Like Higher Education

[Guno צְבִי]

Especially the trump variety



Let’s start with the good news. In a national survey released last week by the Pew Research Center, a solid majority of Americans, 55 percent, have positive views of higher education.

But that finding camouflages a worrisome partisan split: The poll noted that while 72 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said higher education had a positive impact on the nation, 58 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning independents said it had a negative effect. Just 36 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said colleges and universities had a positive effect.

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Even more troubling is that Republican support has cratered in two years, from 54 percent favorable in 2015 to 36 percent favorable today. There is no way to sugarcoat these findings for an industry that depends on widespread, deep public support to be effective. We ignore them at our peril.


https://www.chronicle.com/article/Wh...s-Don-t/240691

[Guno צְבִי]

The Evangelical Rejection of Reason

THE Republican presidential field has become a showcase of evangelical anti-intellectualism. Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann deny that climate change is real and caused by humans. Mr. Perry and Mrs. Bachmann dismiss evolution as an unproven theory. The two candidates who espouse the greatest support for science, Mitt Romney and Jon M. Huntsman Jr., happen to be Mormons, a faith regarded with mistrust by many Christians.

The rejection of science seems to be part of a politically monolithic red-state fundamentalism,


https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/o...of-reason.html

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The Evangelical Rejection of Reason

THE Republican presidential field has become a showcase of evangelical anti-intellectualism.

Evangelicalism has nothing whatsoever to do with anti-intellectualism...

Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann deny that climate change is real and caused by humans.

They are correct. It is not real. It is a circularly-defined buzzword religion. It outright rejects logic, science, and mathematics.

Mr. Perry and Mrs. Bachmann dismiss evolution as an unproven theory.

They are correct about that. Evolution is a religion. It cannot be proven or disproven (the theory isn't falsifiable). It is a theory about a past unobserved event.

The two candidates who espouse the greatest support for science, Mitt Romney and Jon M. Huntsman Jr., happen to be Mormons, a faith regarded with mistrust by many Christians.

Good for them.

The rejection of science seems to be part of a politically monolithic red-state fundamentalism,

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/o...of-reason.html

It is actually AGW proponents who reject science. They reject the laws of thermodynamics and the stefan boltzmann law.

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

The Evangelical Rejection of Reason

THE Republican presidential field has become a showcase of evangelical anti-intellectualism. Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann deny that climate change is real and caused by humans. Mr. Perry and Mrs. Bachmann dismiss evolution as an unproven theory. The two candidates who espouse the greatest support for science, Mitt Romney and Jon M. Huntsman Jr., happen to be Mormons, a faith regarded with mistrust by many Christians.

The rejection of science seems to be part of a politically monolithic red-state fundamentalism,


https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/o...of-reason.html

just stfu. you push lies all day long. you're not smart. you're a bad person.

of course kids should spend 200 grand on a feminist dance theory degree. its a no brainer, duh.

[bhoyal]

The Evangelical Rejection of Reason

THE Republican presidential field has become a showcase of evangelical anti-intellectualism. Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann deny that climate change is real and caused by humans. Mr. Perry and Mrs. Bachmann dismiss evolution as an unproven theory. The two candidates who espouse the greatest support for science, Mitt Romney and Jon M. Huntsman Jr., happen to be Mormons, a faith regarded with mistrust by many Christians.

The rejection of science seems to be part of a politically monolithic red-state fundamentalism,


https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/o...of-reason.html

Evangelicals are idiots. "Born again" - what a crock of BS

[Guno צְבִי]

Anti-intellectuals present themselves and are perceived as champions of common folk—populists against political and academic elitism—and tend to see educated people as a status class detached from the concerns of most people, and feel that intellectuals dominate political discourse and control higher education

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intellectuals dominate political discourse and control higher education

Thank God for that.

[Cypress]

The poll noted that while 72 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said higher education had a positive impact on the nation, 58 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning independents said it had a negative effect.

Just 36 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said colleges and universities had a positive effect.

Remarkable.

[CFM]

Remarkable.

What's remarkable is that someone like you that didn't finish high school thinks he's educated.

[Guno צְבִי]

Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America
Social dysfunction can be traced to the abandonment of reason

America is killing itself through its embrace and exaltation of ignorance, and the evidence is all around us. Dylann Roof, the Charleston shooter who used race as a basis for hate and mass murder, is just the latest horrific example. Many will correctly blame Roof's actions on America's culture of racism and gun violence, but it's time to realize that such phenomena are directly tied to the nation's culture of ignorance.

In a country where a sitting congressman told a crowd that evolution and the Big Bang are “lies straight from the pit of hell,” where the chairman of a Senate environmental panel brought a snowball into the chamber as evidence that climate change is a hoax, where almost one in three citizens can’t name the vice president, it is beyond dispute that critical thinking has been abandoned as a cultural value. Our failure as a society to connect the dots, to see that such anti-intellectualism comes with a huge price, could eventually be our downfall.


https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...illing-america

[kudzu]

Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America
Social dysfunction can be traced to the abandonment of reason

America is killing itself through its embrace and exaltation of ignorance, and the evidence is all around us. Dylann Roof, the Charleston shooter who used race as a basis for hate and mass murder, is just the latest horrific example. Many will correctly blame Roof's actions on America's culture of racism and gun violence, but it's time to realize that such phenomena are directly tied to the nation's culture of ignorance.

In a country where a sitting congressman told a crowd that evolution and the Big Bang are “lies straight from the pit of hell,” where the chairman of a Senate environmental panel brought a snowball into the chamber as evidence that climate change is a hoax, where almost one in three citizens can’t name the vice president, it is beyond dispute that critical thinking has been abandoned as a cultural value. Our failure as a society to connect the dots, to see that such anti-intellectualism comes with a huge price, could eventually be our downfall.


https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...illing-america

What a shame....

[Cypress]

Especially the trump variety



Let’s start with the good news. In a national survey released last week by the Pew Research Center, a solid majority of Americans, 55 percent, have positive views of higher education.

But that finding camouflages a worrisome partisan split: The poll noted that while 72 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said higher education had a positive impact on the nation, 58 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning independents said it had a negative effect. Just 36 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said colleges and universities had a positive effect.

\
Even more troubling is that Republican support has cratered in two years, from 54 percent favorable in 2015 to 36 percent favorable today. There is no way to sugarcoat these findings for an industry that depends on widespread, deep public support to be effective. We ignore them at our peril.


https://www.chronicle.com/article/Wh...s-Don-t/240691

Aside from polling, there are multiple lines of evidence that conservatives abhor higher education, and literally admire and worship ignorance and buffoonery.

[CFM]

Aside from polling, there are multiple lines of evidence that conservatives abhor higher education, and literally admire and worship ignorance and buffoonery.

Yet Democrats elected an unqualified black thinking skin color was a qualification.

[MAGA MAN]

Yet Democrats elected an unqualified black thinking skin color was a qualification.

Pelosi, Mad Max, etc...

[Eagle_Eye]

Aside from polling, there are multiple lines of evidence that conservatives abhor higher education, and literally admire and worship ignorance and buffoonery.

Sorry sport but that isn't what the question said: The question was "The way things are going in the country." That Einstein means the direction the country is headed.