Re: Im not trying to be critical of others education levels

York County Tater® · 2025-05-04T14:53:57.593Z

but want a reasonable answer to my question. Most of the MAGA people I know personally are not college graduates or didn’t attend college at all and the people like me that are never Trumpers are college graduates and some with higher degrees. Why is that? I know lots of people that didn’t go to college that are very smart so I’m not dumping on them. I’m speaking about friends and family and others that are just acquaintances. I’m interested in what I’m seeing and hearing differently and what education level has to do with it. It’s truly baffling to me that what I see perfectly as a con man and others see as the savior of America.

What you see is what the echo chamber wants you to see. And, of course, you buy in hook, line, and sinker.

Of course you are being critical of others' education levels - otherwise you wouldn't care. But it makes you feel superior so you like it.

It's been said here 1000 times. Most of us don't give a chit about Trump's ego, his namecalling, his locker room talk, etc. What we want is a return to common sense

- two genders
- no women in men's sports
- no boys in girls bathrooms or locker rooms
- a government the country can afford
- less bureaucracy, less waste, less corruption in the gov't
- less gov't over reach, more freedom
- school systems that listen to parents
- a secure border with a reasonable immigration policy like the rest of the planet
- less Wokeness
- etc.

So I'll leave it to the liberal/commie sociologists, who will never write the truth, to tell you why people with 'less' education want these things.

It could be that more so called 'education' makes you dumber. Certainly, for the majority of liberal arts majors in the majority of public and private universities, more education gets you more woke.

With a PhD in engineering, I am in the top 1% of educated humans and understand that most Democrats do NOT understand science or critical thought as I do.

Maybe the world view of non-educated people is formed from living and working in reality - working with their hands, making machines run, moving dirt and paving roads, building your house, running small businesses that must have a budget and follow it, etc. These people know far more about the world than the elite, woke, snowflake Ivy League graduate who goes in the fetal position when Starbucks runs out out of Pumpkinspice Latte.

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May 4, 2025, 12:41 PM

personal/individual experiences. Period. There's dumb/stupid/etc., then there's ignorant. Most people are not dumb, or stupid. Those people are incapable of learning anything. But most people are simply ignorant, meaning they're capable of understanding things, but have not been exposed to those things and as such they lack knowledge about it.

I know many brilliant people who are ignorant of many things. Doesn't mean they're morons, dumb, or whatever, it just means their experiences are what they are, and NOT what they're not.

One thing I've learned in my job, and it carries over to many things in life, if you want the cooperation of people, you don't want them to see you as an expert, rather, they should see you as a teacher. Most people who are ignorant of things, will be paranoid, untrusting, and prone to bad decisions. If someone doesn't understand something, the natural human tendency is to recoil from whatever the subject or topic is, and this is where conspiracies gain traction. And America literally runs on ignorance, and specifically profiting from ignorance. It's why the richest country on Earth does not provide the most basic financial education to citizens in government-funded high schools.

Most people with the experience of financial knowledge, and how the economy works, will recoil at Trump's platform. Others, who do not know how the economy works, will embrace his rhetoric, because they do understand that part of his platform. And if you play the numbers, in America, then the con man will have ample wealth and opportunity, and that is Trump, real estate developers, credit card companies, payday loan stores, whatever thrive on.

If you live on a ranch in west Texas your whole life, you're likely going to be a conservative. You're going to value freedom, individualism, personal liberty, gun rights, and hate governemnt handouts. If you grew up in Harlem, and lived in Harlem your whole life, you're going to appreciate controls, laws, regulations, and governemnt programs. And you will likely be a liberal. NEITHER of these examples are bad or dumb people, but they are both ignorant of the life experiences of the other. The problem is when the liberal from Harlem and the rancher from texas both think their life experience, and beliefs, are best for others and everyone else. That's where the problems arise.

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Im not trying to be critical of others education levels

Doubling down & tripling down on obvious incorrect statements

The echo chamber you're talking about

LOL

Re: The echo chamber you're talking about

Re: The echo chamber you're talking about

some of the dumbest people Ive ever met are engineers

Re: some of the dumbest people Ive ever met are engineers

You may have met Dunning Kruger***

The difference is that engineers could have gotten into any major they wanted to

wasted brainpower, half of them should of majored in History***

Re: wasted brainpower, half of them should of majored in History***

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Ur business admin, eh?***

Re: The difference is that engineers could have gotten into any major they wanted to

lol, this is a joke, right?***

No***

guilty