There exists an education gap in the electorate. According to Judy Woodruff in a report on NPR, there are far more college-educated voters today than there were in 1960, and more of them vote Democratic.
Of course they do, and not only because someone with a college education is more likely to be better off financially, thus having the luxury of thinking further down the road beyond paycheck to paycheck. It’s also because their worlds have gotten bigger merely by their exposure to living on a college campus or attending college classes, and having opportunities to travel and see the world as something more than what exists in a single zip code.
Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump went to college, so it doesn’t always follow that the college-educated emerge with a tendency toward blue. I guess one can pick and choose what they get from their educational opportunities, if they have them in the first place. To me, the benefit of mobility and opportunity is an evolution of thought, a heightened awareness that moves beyond tolerance and even acceptance. Difference and diversity among Homo Sapiens are givens in this world, and not things to be feared. We can choose to see things this way, or not.
Higher education isn’t the bad thing people are told, for some reason, to be wary of. Ignorance may be bliss, but it also perpetuates itself and puts less emphasis on critical thinking, and it closes doors.
Much of the rhetoric that seeps from Trump’s pie hole, and those of other highly educated Republicans, reflects the thought patterns of someone who didn’t take full advantage of their college experience or, for some reason, arrived at very different conclusions regarding human nature and what’s important.
In any event, those who never went to college, and who harbor suspicion of anyone who did, need to understand that Donald Trump, college graduate, is banking on their ignorance. He can’t win without that.
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