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It has been proposed (not by me) that the current administration feels education is unimportant and undermines it. Discuss?

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SW-User
If you're talking about America I can see that. The Republican vote is largely bible thumping dumb hicks easily swayed by empty promises.
4meAndyou · F
@SW-User There was a Washington Post article about that. "But what about education? Many pundits noticed early on that Trump’s supporters were mostly people without college degrees. There were two problems with this line of reasoning, however. First, not having a college degree isn’t a guarantee that someone belongs in the working class (think Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg). And, second, although more than 70 percent of Trump supporters didn’t have college degrees, when we looked at the NBC polling data, we noticed something the pundits left out: during the primaries, about 70 percent of all Republicans didn’t have college degrees, close to the national average (71 percent according to the 2013 Census). Far from being a magnet for the less educated, Trump seemed to have about as many people without college degrees in his camp as we would expect any successful Republican candidate to have."

Going on in that same vein, the article states that most Trump supporters were affluent.

I guess what I am saying is...Google is there, it's free, it can support what you say or knock it down.
SW-User
@4meAndyou Cross-referencing the bible belt and rural areas to Republican voters tells the tale. Affluence is an unrelated factor.
4meAndyou · F
@SW-User And location IS a factor? You sound like a very prejudiced person.