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Saturday, October 8th, 2016

How the education gap is tearing politics apart

Author:     David Runciman
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Wednesday 5 October 2016 01.00 EDT
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Stephan:   This is an excellent extended exegetic essay on education and politics bringing together issues I highlighted  in the earlier stories in today's edition, and describing the context. However, in my view as good as it is, the essay in a sense doesn't reach a conclusion.  What it misses is the third way: to make wellbeing from the individual, to the family, to the community, to the state, the nation and the planet itself the standard. The first question both individuals and governments should ask: Is this the option that will produce the greatest wellbeing? Making that the priority is up to us. How we vote, not just in elections but with every purchase, every participation can make this happen.  If we do not do this, I think we are going to tear the country apart. How it comes out is in our hands.
Princeton University

Princeton University

On 23 February, Donald Trump stood before a rally of cheering supporters to celebrate a thumping victory in the Nevada Republican caucus – his third consecutive win, in defiance of the naysayers who had predicted that his bubble was about to burst. “If you listen to the pundits, we weren’t expected to win too much – and now we’re winning, winning, winning the country,” he bragged. “We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”

That last line provoked immediate waves of mockery. It sounded at the time like another one of Trump’s many gaffes – he loves that people do not get a decent education? Yet behind the mockery was a real sense of disquiet, which has not gone away: Trump loves the less educated because they appear to love him back. As the Atlantic reported in March: “The best single predictor of Trump support in the Republican primary is the absence of a college […]

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1 Comment

  1. Steven K Hovland on Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 9:51 am

    I think off-shoring has cost me at least $1 million in lost income over the past 20 years. If I’m voting for my self-interest, who gets the nod?