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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @04:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @04:27PM (#537652)

    It's because science doesn't back their particular weird views on the world. Colleges are in need of some reforms, but the reforms are significantly less drastic than what the GOP voters would have you believe.

    The real problem is cognitive dissonance that comes from being brought up with wrong beliefs. Beliefs that are demonstrably wrong and rather hard to dislodge. We know that climate change is real and that humans play a massive role in it. We don't know exactly how bad it's going to be, but we know it's going to be bad. We also know that GOP tax policies don't work and we've known that for decades. Back in the '80s, it wasn't a liberal that coined the term voodoo economics to describe supply side economics.

    These are the same people that insist that gays getting married infringes on their rights and that a failure to say merry Christmas is a war on their beliefs. People that poorly educated and ignorant aren't going to like college.