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Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America

posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 11 2017, @04:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the Can't-fix-it dept.

aristarchus writes:

In a shift from a mere couple of years ago, when a majority of Republican-Americans thought that higher education was a good thing, the majority of them now believe the opposite.

A Pew Research Center survey published Monday revealed voters have grown apart in their support of secondary education since the 2016 presidential election season, when a majority of Democratic and Republican Americans agreed the nation’s universities serve as a benefit for the U.S. Whereas 54 percent of Republicans said "colleges and universities had a positive impact on the way things were going in the country" in 2015, the majority now believe the opposite, with 58 percent saying such institutions negatively impact the state of the union.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by khallow on Tuesday July 11 2017, @12:28PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 11 2017, @12:28PM (#537555) Journal
    There's no point to arguing with aristarchus. He never supports a thing he says. Argument from authority fallacy ("I know whereof I speak") is the best you'll get from him.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @08:41PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @08:41PM (#537784)

    Lol cause you're a bastion of well sourced citations and proper critical thinking! Pot meet kettle.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:16AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:16AM (#537865) Journal
      And once again, someone asserts things without taking the slightest effort to back them up. Even if your post were true, am I not right? Is breezily assuring someone that you know what you're talking about, a signature aristarchus move let us note, in any sense useful?

      If so, then I know what I'm talking about. Roll the credits.