| TheRealMafoo said: @tarheel91 I have a much simpler answer as why many of the educated are liberal. Education is hard, and if your an elitist, the more education you achieve, and the easier life becomes, the more you think others can't obtain what you have, because not everyone can be as smart/good as you. To be an educated wealthy liberal, first you must think your better then those who you want to give resources too. I am a well educated man who thinks I am no better then the next guy, so if the next guy wants the advantages I have, he needs to go get them, just like I did. Just my 2 cents. |
Thats a funny way of thinking. From your logic, conservatives think that they are better than people below them so thet don't deserve rights, whereas liberals think that people below them do deserve rights. Still, I dont see how a liberal idea, such as letting women vote, is wrong because women should earn the right for themselves.
The actual answer for why educated people are more liberal is qutie simple. The more educated you are the more likely you are exposed to be exposed to other cultures and ideas. An educated man meets different types of people at his university, is introduced to many ideas in his studies, and has more money and reason to travel and encoutner differing ideas and cultures. An uneducated person does have these opportunities, and thus is more likely to give more weight to the ideas of his original social community.
