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SticksnStones

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32. Exactly! I emphatically agree! And layered onto that

Mon Jan 23, 2017, 12:10 PM

Jan 2017

The general notion that a completed, higher education is somehow elitist and therefore disqualifying.

The other side banks on the notion they feed their base that they should be proud of their lack of depth of knowledge.

Equating educated with elitist - It's one of the damages done by conservatism through the years that really cuts to the quick. And its effects are greater amplified as world politics become a more complex, nuanced endeavor, as you too wrote.

Most folks in my extended family circle feel well informed enough, thank you by reading just the headlines ~

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