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o_O.Q on 27 July 2018
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Biggerboat1 said:
o_O.Q said:

 

"As you've demonstrated by not knowing one of the simplest things about this country. Now imagine millions and millions of people as uneducated as your are about ourgovernment directly voting on things?"

I can:

What are you trying to accomplish with this post? It doesn't seem in any way constructive.

I think the initial poster you are alluding to is a tad over the top when it comes to his Trump comments but just outright insulting him doesn't benefit anyone... Apart from maybe making you feel superior..?

This is especially rich coming from someone who has already suggested that another user be banned for generalising earlier in this very thread.

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Also, if you want to look at education levels in the context of the election, then Trump doesn't fare too well...

 

"Trump voters have low education levels."

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865681319/7-surprising-graphics-about-Trump-voters.html

 

"In the 2016 election, a wide gap in presidential preferences emerged between those with and without a college degree. College graduates backed Clinton by a 9-point margin (52%-43%), while those without a college degree backed Trump 52%-44%. This is by far the widest gap in support among college graduates and non-college graduates in exit polls dating back to 1980."

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/

"What are you trying to accomplish with this post? It doesn't seem in any way constructive."

i'm commenting on the danger that true democracy results in for a nation... we have examples like the soviet union, for example

 

"This is especially rich coming from someone who has already suggested that another user be banned for generalising earlier in this very thread."

he didn't generalise, he explicitly associated me with the right

and i am as far as you can get from the right without going to the left

 

"Trump voters have low education levels."

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865681319/7-surprising-graphics-about-Trump-voters.html"

"In the 2016 election, a wide gap in presidential preferences emerged between those with and without a college degree. College graduates backed Clinton by a 9-point margin (52%-43%), while those without a college degree backed Trump 52%-44%. This is by far the widest gap in support among college graduates and non-college graduates in exit polls dating back to 1980."

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/"

you post this, to make what point? that people who don't have a degree should not be able to vote?