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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, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday July 11 2017, @03:52PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 11 2017, @03:52PM (#537623) Journal

    am I not at all convinced that it is by a different group of conpeople.

    Allow me to ask: does it matter if they are the same or different?
    'Cause, if you want to heal, you aren't going to simply eliminate them physically and all the problem will be gone, You'll have to eliminate their ideas from your mind to neutralize them. Otherwise, their poison will persist in spite of getting rid of them.

    Until you aren't going to see the humans in Reps or Dems and recognize you aren't that far one from another, there's nothing you'll be able to do to help yourselves. You'll just waste yourselves.

    (I'm from on of the former communist countries in the Eastern European block.
    Almost 30 years after and the influence of the leeches pushed by an inept system in position of power is still there. Because those leeches created other leeches)

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:10AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:10AM (#537860) Journal

    This is very wise. We have to unmake their structures in our own hearts and minds or we will re-create them recursively until our ruin.

    I have no idea what Steps 2+ are, but I am pretty darn sure Step 1 is to stop picking fights with our fellow citizens using words others have put in our mouths.

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    Washington DC delenda est.