Study shows college ed. makes you more liberal. Fox News has something to say..

[Lars77]

Source: Fox News

"Propaganda works" - Tucker Carlson

Read more: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4016232/college-skews-political-spectrum

[No Elephants]

1. Will they start threatening to kill professors' kids now?

[zbdent]

2. only if the kids aren't big enough to fight for themselves ...

otherwise, the attackers will chicken out ...

[Sancho]

3. The more you learn, the less likely you are to be a ditto head!

It has nothing to do with propaganda, and everything to do with knowing more and using your noodle.

I'm convinced that even a lot of the "educated conservatives" only do what they do because of $'s.

[caraher]

4. Study shows FOX "news" makes you more ignorant

"Propaganda works" - Tucker Carlson

[CBR]

5. Sure worked for me. Thank God!!! nt

[KharmaTrain]

6. A Reflection On A Lazy Country...

One thing I've noticed in my way too many years on this rock is the ongoing dumbing down of our culture...we've become an intellectually lazy society where winning means more than anything and it doesn't matter how you get there as long as you get there. It's easier to let someone else do the thinking...suck in the talking points and feel superior than to question. It's also a product of a mass consumer society where people expect a lot with little in return. Thus we have developed a portion of our population that feels entitled simply because they exist and consume and look to hate radio and Faux to reinforce their own selfish and lazy desires. And when they lose, they feel its best to be sore losers than to ever accept responsibility or failure. A sad commentary on our culture and why its easy for a Faux to infest and poison this country body politic.

[RKP5637]

8. Very well said and sadly quite true IMO! And as this goes on in what once was

the "United" States, the rest of the world is going to walk/run right past this nation as we backslide into a dark medieval mindset by many and become knuckle-dragger nation, proud of ignorance and lack of education, "but ain't this the best country in the world," NOT.

[KharmaTrain]

12. It Happens To All Empires...

There are some in the population, specifically the leaders, who believe in a nation's infalibility that distorts not only the view of the rest of the world, but an arrogance that eventually destroys the empire. I've seen that happening in this country since the 80s...when our industrial base was offshored and a myopic worldview of our place in the world...every news story is "how does it affect us" with little regard to culture or history. We've seen a steady decline as this country's arrogance and selfishness has turned it from a producer and innovator to a consumer and provincial. My concern is another rushpublican regime like the last we had and this country's decline will be rapid and disastrous.

Cheers...

[RKP5637]

15. The 80's, same here, that is when I felt/saw the shift beginning, really with the

ascent of Reagan, Gingrich and the pack, and especially with Reaganism and trickle down economics. To me, that was the building of a land of serfs.

Yes, we've seen the fall of nations throughout history with "...leaders, who believe in a nation's infallibility that distorts not only the view of the rest of the world, but an arrogance that eventually destroys the empire." Yet the nation plods along with the ignorant gathering steam to bring a rapid decline with 'rushpublicanism.' As another poster once said, it's basically like we are in slow motion time watching the potential for self-destruction unfold.

[Stevenmarc]

14. We've become the culture of the mediocre

We're very good at setting the bar low these days. The Jane Akre case pretty much gave Fox carte blanche to strip any concept of journalism out of the news and what was left was a propaganda machine.

[quaker bill]

7. How do they get there

It is clear that a certain portion of us do not go to college, generally it is that portion that makes poor grades and goes to vocational school.

The statistical question arises, does college "make us more liberal" or is it that folks who would tend to become more liberal anyway just happen to also go to college more frequently? Correlation does not imply causation. I do know several near teabagger types who also have advanced degrees, so if there is an effect, it is not universal. (one might wish it was, but it isn't)

[Bill McBlueState]

11. I think college may "make us more liberal"

but it's not some kind of shadowy conspiracy. The exposure to a broad range of ideas and practices that you tend to get in college makes you more liberal.

[RKP5637]

17. +1, n/t

[Lost4words]

19. so you are saying people who attend VoTech schools do so due to bad grades?

I don't think you meant to imply that but that how that line reads. Neoliberal economics = Chicago School = Milton Friedman, all college guys mostly. And have pulled off some of the most despicable crimes against
the working class all for the worlds uber rich.

[Arkansas Granny]

25. On the flip side of that, I know many people who have never been to college, but

still have liberal viewpoints on a wide range of issues. I can easily see where college would tend to increase liberal thinking simply by exposing students to different viewpoints, but it not, as you say, universal.

[Vinca]

9. I think it's a disdain for education in general.

(For example, Texas removing a POTUS from a text and adding Phyllis Shafly.) The few educated, upper crust Republicans tend to exploit the ignorant base, usually for monetary gain. It's truly amazing how they get elderly Medicare recipients to protest against a "government takeover of health care."

[RKP5637]

10. I never realized there was such devastatingly widespread ignorance in this country until the

Bush years and forward.

[Lost4words]

23. Its truly shocking how some will betray their own interests!

and repeatedly parrot what they have been told.

[The Hope Mobile]

13. Why are you pushing this perspective?

Just curious.

[City Lights]

16. Oh the irony! nt

[depakid]

18. Tucker the drop out whose daddy got him a cush job as a bow tie wearing pundit

:+

[Lost4words]

20. Folks, there are conservative schools who pump out pukes by the score

some schools teach what to think, true schools teach how to think.

Just my opinion.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

21. So since I was a liberal before I went to college

that explains why I am falling off the bench on the left now.

Thanks Tucker!

[Odin2005]

22. Reality has a well know LIBERAL bias, bowtie boy.

[saltpoint]

24. Them god-durned libruls'll stop at nothin to learn kids plum away

from God and Country.

[ChoralScholar]

26. Back when I was in college, our Poli Sci professor showed us

a study with this same correlation - my friend behind me leaned up to me and whispered: "This means that Republicans are the dumbest motherfuckers on earth, right?"

We were quite foulmouthed back then, but the sentiment remains true, I suppose.. :)