People keep making the mistake of saying these people are undereducated. While college-educated voters do seem to be pulling Dem at this point, many are not, and are as much in the cult as those without educations. It is not a phenomenon rooted in education – anyone can get sucked into a cult.
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Well, there is the distinction between being degreed and having an education.
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I’ve decided that a major problem in understanding these issues in more nuanced terms is English’s very limited taxonomy and ontology around “intelligence.”
Obviously some people can be extremely talented engineers, scientists, what have you, and be, well, totally dense on essentially every other level. But all we have to describe them is “smart” or “intelligent,” essentially.
Same as the highly-intelligent generalist who knows quite a bit about many things, can deep-dive into novel issues easily, and can quickly grasp the mechanisms of interconnection between systems. They, too, are “smart” or “intelligent.” But these are not at all the same sorts of smarts…
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To really cover their bases, the radio station should probably run the disclaimer at five-minute intervals throughout the show.
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Manufactured outrage on radio still sells well to some demographics.
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Standard disclaimer for opinion shows. Anyone not about to get disbarred would know that.
It’s tautological that (unless you are in the minority of Republicans that actually benefit financially/rapaciously from gop policy), a Republican needs more education, until you are smart enough to become a Democrat and vote in your own self-interest.
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