A bit education is better then a bit more? Republicans hate Universities!
Higher education is bad. That is what US people think - at the farer right side of the political spectrum.
a majority (58%) of Republicans say colleges and universities are having a negative effect on the way things are going in the country, while 36% say they have a positive effect.
Among Republicans, there is an ideological gap in views of the impact of colleges and universities and other institutions: Nearly two-thirds of conservative Republicans (65%) say colleges are having a negative impact, compared with just 43% of moderate and liberal Republicans.
This is a very strong jump from last year, where the positive/negative numbers were mixed and 2015 where the positive views in higher education was (a steady base) higher then the negative view.
In the same way the views towards media have moved, with a whopping 85% thinking that mass media have a negative effect (while probably not meaning Fox News).
While the Democrat's view is fairly constant in the age groups, the older Republicans are the worse they look upon universities.
Is this something like "Trumpism" forming here? The notion of "I am right, and everyone who says something that is not my opinion is bad for the country"?
Since I don't even know where to start interpreting this, I would be happy to hear your thoughts on that, especially if you are a US Republican ;)
Good point @lennstar however some political animals might misunderstand you and view you in ideological lense
Well, I do have an ideology, like everyone ;)
My first point in ideology is to have fact-based politics.
I agree with you about fact based politics @lennstar however ideological pondits will go on the attack especially those who are against free speech when it dont dance to their philosophical tone and t tend to term it as fake news...
No they hate the CIA brainwashing institutions that liberal universities have become.
Brainwashing as in what?
I don't consider myself a republican but i'm a right leaning libertarian. I don't think higher education is bad. I think its been corrupted with far left propaganda that is borderline socialism. When you have required gender studies classes for people majoring in business (me) you know something has gone terribly wrong. Also Biology classes have been infected with gender theory that has no basis in Biology. (first hand experience in a lab class 2 terms ago) All in All the left has taken over the institutions and has pushed too far with silly gender studies "science". And the whole idea that everything should be based on equality instead of merit is ridiculous in my eyes. I would be happy to answer more questions.
Why? Don't you think it is important to know about pay gaps, worse chances for woman etc. in your and other countries you will be making business with?
Of course if you want a morally-free business, then everything except math is unnecessary.
It is true that "gender" has gone too far in some places. But then, that does not mean that universities hurt the country, even if "gender" would.
You could argue (and prove) neolib business studies have done far more and far worse damage and no Republican is going against it.
Sorry for the first post I was pretty tired and I should have gone into more detail instead of summarizing.
Thanks for the questions they let me elaborate more of what I was thinking.
You are a great example of someone who has sat in class and thought to themselves 'I dont agree with that', irrespecive of your politics, well done. Colleges and Universities arent brainwashing labs, people are able to make their own critical judgements andin fact should be, thats what higher education is for.
Im not an American, but I am concerned that in the US things have become so polarized that there is no real political debate, just aggression and name calling, something I experienced first hand when I dared to offer an alternate opinion here on steemit.
Thanks