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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: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Tuesday July 11 2017, @03:46PM (2 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Tuesday July 11 2017, @03:46PM (#537622)

    Both act as is if their dogma is sacrosanct.

    You have obviously never even lurked on a right side forum. Pretty much all of the political debate and idea creation now happens on the Right. The Left has holiness spiraled up their own assholes to the point a group of Jewish LGBTQ types can be banned from an LGBTQ rally [1] and the award winning LGBTQ journalist who reported the story gets fired [algemeiner.com]. Meanwhile you find so many diverse factions on the right, actually debating, arguing and yes fighting over political dogma, theory and fact. Moderates, Conservatives, NeoCons, Crunchy Cons, Libertarians, Alt-Light, Alt-Right, NRx, Nationalists, etc. And while the NR types still pretend they have the power to No Platform all they consider a 'heretic' while everyone else just pats them on the head and says "yea, you do you." For the Left, the One Holy Truth is generated and printed daily in the New York Times and the argument is over.

    [1] Because it was in reality nothing of the sort, it was a generic Party function and so they they were going to be carrying signs for the whole platform, including some anti-Semitic, pro "Palestinian" / pro terror stuff. They were afraid their Prog terrorists would attack the Prog Jews in public and had to pick one group of the Prog family to leave out. Terrorist -> Jew on the Pyramid of Oppression.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 11 2017, @06:49PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday July 11 2017, @06:49PM (#537733) Journal

    Pretty much all of the political debate and idea creation now happens on the Right

    Ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha!!! Very funny, jmorris!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @08:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @08:49PM (#537787)

    Wow.

    You done gone full bathshit crazy brah!!! I tried to tell you before but I was too late and you posted this rambling stack of stupid.

    "Blinded by ideology", that could like, totally be your band. I bet you'd be playing the flute since you've had so much practice.