I did well enough in school to know that no one wins a trade war, that tariffs are paid by consumers, rather than exporters, and that Trump is alienating our allies by threatening Greenland, Danmark, and Canada.
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"Trumpās rise over the past three election cycles, Sosnik argued, 'accelerated and completed this political realignment based on education that had been forming since the early ā70s, at the beginning of the decline in the middle class'.ā
"As the US transitions to a 21st century economy, thereās a rift between the people who attain education ā āthatās become the basic Democratic Party,ā he said, comparing them with people who feel left behind, 'that group of voters is now the modern Republican Party base'.ā...
Thereās a direct correlation to politics. In 2020, according to
CNNās exit polls, voters with a college degree accounted for 41% of the electorate and they supported President Joe Biden 55% to Trumpās 43%. Trump got the support of about two-thirds of White voters without a college degree, but he lost White college-educated voters.
Democrats and education????
Education is far from an indication of rectitude.
You probably don't realize how lucky you are to come to my threads.
Today is a perfect example.
Watch me prove that "education" is meaningless without integrity and wisdom.
Education has nothing to do with values, integrity, or wisdom.
Here are some that believe as you do:
"No country in Europe, except Britain, had a better education system than Germany at the onset of the Hitler era." Lance Morrow, "Evil: An Investigation," p. 123
What does that tell you about the relationship between education and evil?
How about this:
1. More details are emerging about Humam al-Balawi, the man who blew up seven intelligence agents in Afghanistan. By
education and professional status, the Jordanian doctor is typical of recent suicidal attackers. The man accused of trying to blow up a plane on Christmas Day is a Nigerian
graduate of the University of London. In the Fort Hood shootings, a Palestinian-American
psychiatrist in the U.S. Army has been charged.
Humam al-Balawi was said to be carrying information about Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's number two,
himself a surgeon who was born to a prominent Egyptian family.
Mohamed Atta of 9/11, who was an
Egyptian urban planner who had been working in Germany - these are not the wretched of the earth. What essentially is the grievance that draws them to al-Qaida?
Groups Recruiting Well-Educated Terrorists : NPR
2. A recent study at Princeton University by Alan Krueger and Jitka Maleckova, called "Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?" argues this point. One piece of the Krueger-Maleckova evidence involves 129 members of Hezbollah who died in action, mostly against Israel, from 1982 to 1994. Hezbollah is now designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. Biographical information from the Hezbollah newspaper al-Ahd indicates that the fighters who died were, on average,
more educated and less impoverished than the Lebanese population of comparable age and regional originā¦.Moreover, the Palestinians' adherence to the view that the mass murder of civilians was not terrorism was independent of education and higher among those working than unemployed. Hence,
support for terrorism was not reduced by increases in education and incomeā¦.a study by Charles Russell and Bowman Miller (reprinted in the 1983 book Perspectives on Terrorism) considered 18
revolutionary groups, including the Japanese Red Army, Germany's Baader-Meinhof Gang, and Italy's Red Brigades. The authors found that "the vast majority of those individuals involved in terrorist activities as
cadres or leaders is quite well-educated. In fact, approximately two-thirds of those identified terrorists are persons with some university training, [and] well over two-thirds of these individuals came from the middle or upper classes in their respective nations or areas."
BW Online | June 10, 2002 | The Myth That Poverty Breeds Terrorism
http://www.krueger.princeton.edu/terrorism2.pdf
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men who belonged to violent Islamist groups active over the past few decades (some in jail, some not). Had those groups reflected the working-age populations of their countries, engineers would have made up about 3.5 percent of the membership. Instead,
nearly 20 percent of the militants had engineering degrees. When Gambetta and Hertog looked at only the militants whose education was known for certain to have gone beyond high school,
close to half (44 percent) had trained in engineering.
Today's Highly Educated Terrorists | The National Interest Blog
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4.
Pol Pot, was the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge[3] and was Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976ā1979. Pol Pot's leadership, in which he attempted to "cleanse" the country, resulted in the
deaths of an estimated 1.7ā2.5 million peopleā¦. he qualified for a scholarship that allowed for technical study in France. He studied radio electronics at the EFR in Paris from 1949 to 1953
Pol Pot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5.
Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan, who had studied in Paris, wrote in his doctoral dissertation that the Cambodian economy and social structure would be renewed by tapping āthe dormant energy of the peasant massā against the cities. āKissinger, āThe White House Years,ā p. 518.
6.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara "the man was a mass killer. Hundreds were reportedly executed on his watch"
Why Do people love a mass murder like Che? // Current
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (1928-1967) was an Argentine physician...
Biography of Ernesto Che Guevara, Revolutionary Leader
As a young boy growing up, he had
a passion for education, literature and philosophy.
Mao Zedong
"he worked as a doctor.
Che Guevara : Biography
7.
Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, April 22, 1870ā¦.In 1891 he passed the
law examinations at the University of St. Petersburg as an external student, scoring first in his class. He practiced law briefly in Samara before devoting himself to the revolutionary movement.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), 1870-1924
8.
Bashar al-Assad is the President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Regional Secretary of the Ba'ath Party, and the son of former President Hafez al-Assad. Al-Assad is a controversial figure both in Syria and Internationally⦠for his
disregard for human rights, economic lapses, sponsorship of terrorism, and corruption.
Bashar studied ophthalmology at Damascus University 1988 and arrived in London in 1992 to continue his studies. Bashar al-Assad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
9. Mao was a rebellious teen-ager. His father wanted him to be a farmer; Mao wanted more education beyond the village grammar school. Mao left home at age 13 to attend an advanced school in a nearby district and in 1911 arrived in Changsha, the provincial capital, to attend secondary schoolā¦. He tried law enforcement, business and history before settling on education, graduating from a teachers' training school in 1918. He departed for Beijing to attend the university.
CNN In-Depth Specials - Visions of China - Profiles: Mao Tse-tung
10.Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri received his master's degree in surgery from Cairo University....
http://www.biography.com/people/ayman-al-zawahiri-241182
11. Nidal Hasan, Abdulmutallab and Humam al-Balawi are jihadists who were educated and came from privileged middle- and upper-class backgrounds. Hasan was an American-trained U. S. Army doctor, Abdulmutallab was a London engineering student and the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, and double-agent Dr. Humam al-Balawi was a member of the Jordanian professional class.
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/wm-b-fankboner/the-educated-muslim-terrorist/
12. "One piece of the Krueger-Maleckova evidence involves 129 members of Hezbollah who died in action, mostly against Israel, from 1982 to 1994. Hezbollah is now designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. Biographical information from the Hezbollah newspaper al-Ahd indicates that the fighters who died were, on average, more educated and less impoverished than the Lebanese population of comparable age and regional origin."
The Myth That Poverty Breeds Terrorism
and......" a study by Charles Russell and Bowman Miller (reprinted in the 1983 book Perspectives on Terrorism) considered 18 revolutionary groups, including the Japanese Red Army, Germany's Baader-Meinhof Gang, and Italy's Red Brigades. The authors found that "the vast majority of those individuals involved in terrorist activities as cadres or leaders is quite well-educated. In fact, approximately two-thirds of those identified terrorists are persons with some university training, [and] well over two-thirds of these individuals came from the middle or upper classes in their respective nations or areas."Ibid.
13. Fidel Castro was a talented student, and decided to pursue a career in law, entering the University of Havana Law School in 1945. After graduating law school, he opened a law office that primarily catered for poor Cubans, although it proved a financial failure.
Fidel Castro Biography - life, family, parents, story, history, school, mother, young, son, old, information, born
Highly educated Leftists, smart guys all....