Dr. Jill Biden wants BOTH LSU and IOWA WBB to visit White House.

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(04-09-2023, 11:44 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Don't be fooled, a lot of American people decided medical doctors weren't all that legit during covid.  We tend to value a person's accomplishments only as far as they fit with our own mindsets.

There is an anti-education bias growing on the right, because republicans used to be the college educated variety while democrats were the working class type and things have done a bit of a 180.  It's mostly amusing when you have republican leaders who have ivy league educations acting like they are obnoxious hicks because that's who votes for them.

Look at the pundits on Fox News, they have juris doctorates or advanced degrees from elite ivy league schools and they sit in their massive HQ in Manhattan and talk about how education is bad, blue states are bad and so on and so forth.

It takes all kinds of people to make a world and neither of my parents went to college, but it's interesting seeing the educated elites sit in their tower in NYC as they extol the negatives of all they embody and where they are when they could just quit and live the dream of being a coal miner in rural Mississippi.

LOL I always try not to be fooled.

The hostility of the right to higher ed and degrees is not new, though. It began back in the 1880s, as college grads came home from research universities doubting that Moses wrote the Pentateuch and reading Darwin. Then there was the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925, a victory for the right which brought them national scorn from journalists, who would become "the enemy" along with universities.

Right now we are seeing much more precise targeting, owing to modern communications technology and the money behind the new right. 

When have you ever seen Stephen Miller on Fox News when he doesn't rail about the educated elites who think they are better than you? 
"'The left' doesn't care about flyover American!"

You are quite right about the surreal hostility to elites and elite universities from those who benefitted from Harvard and Yale degrees. DeSantis
would prefer someone from Hillsdale than his alma maters Harvard and Yale.  However, Hannity is a true non-elite anti-elitist as he started two colleges and finished degrees with none.