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‘This Is a Really Big Deal’: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP (www.politico.com)

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In the aftermath of the Wisconsin election, former Republican Gov. Scott Walker acknowledged the important role students played in determining the outcome but viewed the problem facing the party in a cultural context. “Young voters are the issue,” he wrote on Twitter. “It comes from years of radical indoctrination — on campus, in school, with social media, & throughout culture. We have to counter it or conservatives will never win battleground states again.”

Heh.

Edit: Axios has a related piece out this morning: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/23/trump-desantis-colleges-universities

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[–] the_itsb 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and being even mildly educated is a problem for our dipshit ideology

For real though. I went to church multiple times a week from around age 8 until my late teens, I went to the private Christian school run by our church from grades 8 through 11, I was thoroughly indoctrinated - but it all started falling apart in my early teens, when the pastor told me that animals don't have souls. How can you have pets and love them and not be absolutely certain that they have souls?!? And if he's wrong about something so obvious and basic, what else is he wrong about??

Turns out - everything 😂

It really doesn't take much education or life experience to start questioning it all.

[–] TheOakTree 16 points 1 year ago

It really doesn't take much education or life experience to start questioning it all.

It takes enough courage and willpower to meet resistance and stay resilient, aka the kind of backbone that conservative spaces teach you to never have.

Bow down to your superiors.