There is a difference between the educated and the uneducated.
The educated have been taught to think, to analyse, to investigate and come to reasoned conclusions. While some of the uneducated may develop some of these abilities for them selves a majority of them do not.
There is a reason that so many educated people support liberal views, as that is where clear thinking and analysis of world situation leads them.
The less educated without these attributes. Tend to chose options that they believe will benefit Them selves or their affiliated group, but without consideration of society or the environment as a whole. They are more likely to think short term, selfishly, and believe leaders and those like themselves, who think little further than personal advantage and gain.
About as accurate as any over-generalization of it could get, think. It's pretty hard to come up with a generalization as good as yours, so far as I can see. But I myself wouldn't rely on it more often than I needed it to improve a guess.
Here's the first or second most important factor of all, in my opinion. It doesn't so much go by educational level, I think, as by someone's ability to see human nature as human nature rather than as somehow divided between political ideologies. Granted, there are notable psychological splits between ideologies. But here, I am talking about an ability to see and understand the commonalities between people, regardless of any and all groupings, political or otherwise.
I would take any person who is a good judge of character over anyone who is not, in any category you name, regardless of education, and bet on them to be the one to have had a better understanding of what Trump's election would mean for America.
Knowing how people behave, after all, is pretty much the single most crucial factor in getting a good guess at what kind of world they will try to bring about.
Here is where propaganda must be factored in in so many ways. The one I'd make foremost in this context is how so much of it plays on the anti-intellectual streak in American culture.
Basically, if you do not have enough carefully vetted respect for scholars, scientists, experts, and so forth, then you are the naive lamb in any conversation about any reality that someone or some group has decided to mess with your understanding of the topic.
There are no people today living in any media driven culture who have not been propagandized into delusional beliefs useful to someone or something.
None. If someone thinks he or she has not had their views on at least some topics shaped and molded by today's science driven propaganda, they are ignorant of propaganda, and most likely of a whole lot about basic human nature.
It is almost a Greek tragedy's concept of 'fate' in how well propaganda drives people's behavior. Almost the only rope available to so many people is their willingness to check their understanding of something against the best scholarship or science they can find on it.
And the OP is certain to lessen that respect for at least some people. This is a ****ed up world when something has been going on for 100 years over which time lying has only grown more and more socially acceptable. I'm for taking it almost as seriously as the Lakota and put to death any scout that could be determined to have lied -- and thus to have become an enemy of his own family and people.
I'm only stopped by opposition to the death penalty. I don't want to give government that much power over the people. I cannot see the wisdom of that.
Before anyone thinks of me as extreme, explain to me how what I would argue for is more extreme than the political use of propaganda to weaponize a crowd of politically naive people and incite them to storm a crucial function of democracy in order to install an authoritarian leader. If I'm more extreme than that to someone, my only question is do they know who has their mind plastered with their logos, just as if they were a sponsored race car driver?
Lying done to confuse people in a democracy so they cannot see clearly enough to vote in terms of what's best for their own self-interest cannot end well for the democracy, nor for the liberties and freedoms of the people.
America today is so propagandized it is politically paralyzed in terms of getting anything done that the majority of Americans want done, and that's decades old news now. This is not going to last forever. And especially with ******* OPs like the one above everywhere and on every level of American media and social websites.
It does not matter whether someone sawing away on someone else's lifeline is doing it naively or with cunning. The effect remains the same. There has been no apology. There has been no assumption of responsibility. There has been no offer of remedy. The only time lying on the level of potentially defeating someone's ability to exercise their fair right to share in deciding how they are governed can possibly be moral, is when it's used in self-defense or in defense of an innocent. Negligence in passing along false or misleading information amounts to condoning lying. All of that still applies even to when it's done to people you don't like or care about.
The Lakota have a lessen to teach. A wisdom for those who will learn it.
Lying becomes damnably immoral when it's done to a friend. It is not asking too much for people to make a minimal effort to check whether their opinions are grounded in fact before pumping out false and misleading roadmaps to people they call their friends. Is 'friends' now another one of those 'alt' words?
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