re: #153 Hecuba’s daughter

I really don’t like the framing that Trump voters are somehow less literate and less educated; most of the ones I know are highly educated and not religious fanatics. Think of those in Trump’s orbit — Peter Navarro, Scot Atlas, etc. — who happily promoted lies that they really believe. Education offers skills in certain areas that allow people to be highly successful in business/science/technology — it doesn’t protect people from indoctrination or brainwashing or racism. Wisdom and decency are not a product of education.

Same with me. That’s just a reframing of the “economically anxious” argument.

The number of people in my town with only a high school education or lower is three. The same three who did not vote for Donald Trump. (Five of the university-educated also voted for Joe Biden, and three others for Jill Stein and two for Gary Johnson.)

It would take no effort for conservative propagandists to turn that right around and say “See, it’s the Democratic voters who are uneducated: They don’t know any better.”

The correct answer is not education, or age, or other determinants. It is “fascists,” “racists,” &c.