Most Republicans Think College Is Bad for America?!!

Sailor said:
Hmm. This from an unemployed paralegal who readily admits he needs to rely on his parents to pay for his kids college. Seriously PackD, give it up.
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No and no. The noes have to get in queue and await their cues, but never their queso fundido, stupid ass ignorant hick.
 
signalmankenneth said:
Remember, a dumbass, uneducated populace is easier to control?!!

[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]It doesn’t seem that long ago when most people’s version of the American Dream included sending their kids to college to ensure they had a secure future. Now it seems like a certain sect of the population is not so wild about the idea of college.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]According to a new Pew poll, the majority of Republicans consider higher education to be bad for the country.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]The stat is startling: [FONT=sofia_pro_semi_boldregular]58 percent[/FONT] of Republicans and conservatives believe that colleges and universities have a “negative effect” on the United States. As a point of comparison, only 19 percent of Democrats and liberals feel the same way.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]Conservatives haven’t always felt this hostile toward college – it’s a very recent phenomenon. In 2015, most Republicans said college has a “positive effect” on the U.S., with just 37 percent thinking poorly of higher learning. For that number to jump by over 20 percentage points in the span of two years is as amazing as it is disturbing.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]How, in such a short timeframe, did we get to a point where the very institutions that keep our nation smart and competitive are reviled by one of the two major political parties?
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]Presumably, conservative Americans are taking their cues from GOP leaders and rightwing media that broadly label universities to be too liberal. By most measurements, academia does skew liberal. That said, it is an ongoing disagreement whether that is the result of a leftist conspiracy or just that intelligent people who research subjects extensively are more likely to reach a liberal perspective.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]On top of that, conservative media has devoted a lot of airtime to portraying colleges as overly PC purveyors of “safe space.” As the Washington Post points out, internet searches for the term “safe spaces” were “basically nonexistent” back in 2015 before skyrocketing in the past two years.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]Because of this coverage, a growing number of Republicans view colleges not as places of learning, but as facilities that breed “snowflakes,” whatever that means.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]To be completely candid, there are a few ways that college does have a negative impact on Americans, not the least of which is the crippling loan debt students accrue. With college being so expensive these days, attending often isn’t about who performed the best in high school, but who comes from a rich enough family to afford the tuition. Oh, and then there’s the whole issue of for-profit colleges that rip off students and provide them no marketable skills.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]However, if those are the kinds of reasons Republican voters have a bad impression of the service college provides, then they’re definitely supporting the wrong party. GOP lawmakers vote in such a way to increase the amount of debt students take on, not to mention cut state funding to local universities and community colleges, which makes tuition less affordable.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]As for for-profit colleges, President Trump ran a fraudulent for-profit university and now his Education Department is rolling back rules Obama implemented to keep these institutions accountable to students.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]The good news is that, disregarding political affiliations, just 36 percent of Americans has a negative opinion of college, placing the brunt of the animosity toward higher education on Republicans. Respect for college remains high overall, even if one party has soured on its contributions to the United States’s dominance.
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[FONT=sofia_pro_lightregular]Looking ahead, though, there is a real danger in the possibility of an entire half of the country’s political spectrum abandoning college because of this shifting view. How will America continue to lead in a world full of complicated issues if the very institutions that teach the critical thinking skills necessary to navigate these complexities are reviled?

By Kevin Mathews

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The point is.....Today, a college education is not even equivalent to a high school education of just 3 decades past. Not everyone needs college as not everyone has the intellectual capacity to obtain a REAL COLLEGE education. Today "college" is nothing but another con used to guarantee DEBT and DEPENDENCE upon the state. The degree is used as more of a "status symbol" for snowflakes than for its true quality.

The facts are facts. Today's average college education is worthless in obtaining a career that pays enough to overcome the initial investment. While the educations that are worth obtaining are being sold out to outsourced foreigners who possess the basic skills required to move this modern technological economy.

In simple terms: Who needs to hire a stuck up American kid with a stick up his ass like he's owed a living because of a piece of sheep skin that has his/her name on it when its a demonstrated fact that other more qualified, highly educated foreign kids can do the same or better job at almost half the price required by the kid with a stick up his/her ass.

Does the United States of America really need any more kids with a "BS" whose only claim to fame is managing a local Micky D's? I'd say his/her parents are quite satisfied with the 120K they paid to have an official Micky D's manger living in their basement....or the student him/herself is just as pleased with the interest bearing debt of a student loan that will take longer to pay off than a home mortgage. Or do we really need more Teachers that do nothing once they obtain tenure other than beef up the unions bottom numbers on the ledger....or any more degrees in SOCIALISM?

Just who are all these SNOWFLAKES supposed to manage once they obtain their college degrees....MEXICANS that will do the work the snowflake believes beneath him/her?

The answer that not everyone is willing to accept? Go back to the days of the Jr. Colleges....where one can test the waters to see if they are really interested in chasing a sheepskin. Then....if they can carry a sufficient GPA for the first 2 years...transfer to a field at a 4 year school, once they have tested the waters and determined what's best for the individual instead of the "village".

No...all it takes today is "MONEY" and one can purchase any kind of degree they might want while carrying what should be a D average...and then they expect the world to lay down in front of them as they get to pick and choose from the best jobs. Its "la la" land.
 
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Ralph said:
The point is.....Today, a college education is not even equivalent to a high school education of just 3 decades past. Not everyone needs college as not everyone has the intellectual capacity to obtain a REAL COLLEGE education. Today "college" is nothing but another con used to guarantee DEBT and DEPENDENCE upon the state. The degree is used as more of a "status symbol" for snowflakes than for its true quality.

The facts are facts. Today's average college education is worthless in obtaining a career that pays enough to overcome the initial investment. While the educations that are worth obtaining are being sold out to outsourced foreigners who possess the basic skills required to move this modern technological economy.

In simple terms: Who needs to hire a stuck up American kid with a stick up his ass like he's owed a living because of a piece sheep skin that has his/her name on it when its a demonstrated fact that other more qualified, highly educated foreign kids can do the same or better job at almost half the price required by the kid with a stick up his/her ass.
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There is 50 percent truth in this post

That's a passing score here.

Fact is college graduates will make more than a high school only grad over life exceeding the expense usually incurred many time over.

So, 50 percent false. But it still costs too much and we need more menial Sailors and fewer micawber geniuses, I agree. There are complex issues about lifestyle, dirty fingers and such that could also enter in to that equation from the parent's perspective.
 
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spyydrr said:
Anyone who thinks that American colleges today are not geared towards leftist thinking, are not being honest.
Colleges have long been hot beds for liberal ideas, and those who dare disagree with their professors, find themselves in a hostile environment.
If you walk in lock-step with your leftist professor, then you will have few problems.
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Somehow a lot of truth seems to lean that way, kinda like alternative facts seems to lean right...:dunno: Must be gravity or the magnetic poll, fox news, trump?? :rolleyes:

You prob should just take your own advice & stay out of school, perhaps Beck U or trump school is what you are looking for...:thisisgettinggood:
 
Micawber said:
And the founders certainly did not set up an equal value vote system. Depriving anyone of a vote is not giving equal weight, and even those who were privileged to vote (white homosapiens with dicks and land) did not have them count equally.
The post is ignorant many ways at once. Was it seminal and better than no voting and a monarchy and therefore revolutionary political thought implemented? Hell yes. But one man one vote it was not.
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It was not, nor was it intended to be.......
 
Bill said:
I didn't vote for hillary, you need to stop drinking so much to improve your memory....
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Lots of people on here claim they didn't since she lost. That's how it usually works when people are too ashamed of what they did.
 
CFM said:
Lots of people on here claim they didn't since she lost. That's how it usually works when people are too ashamed of what they did.
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Who else on here that's a liberal claimed they didn't vote for Hillary?

Did you vote for Trump?
 
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