Reply #71: I'd like to throw this article in the DLC's face

[fujiyama]

because one part especially struck out at me (I would urge everyone to read the entire article...It has some very interesting facts).

"One of the interesting phenomenon of today's politics is that, in general, Republicans tend to be more educated on average than Democrats, with a larger percentage either holding a bachelor's degree or having attended some college. But Democrats represent a larger portion of the super-educated -- that is, those holding graduate degrees. So Democrats are made up of the least and the most educated, with Republicans congregated largely near, but not at, the top.

So how did those near the top of the educational tree do in Segal's and Bachman's study? They were half as likely as those in group two to enlist. And because there are far more people who have been to college or have bachelor's degrees than there are people who have post-graduate degrees, the former group has far more political influence, just in sheer numbers."

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Contrast this with Marshall and From's idiotic views:

"Conversely, the military is not always held in high esteem in what might be called the European wing of the Democratic party -- secular liberal elites in the deep-blue Northeast and West Coast. Frank Schaeffer, a Boston writer, tells the story of how shocked his upper-middle-class neighbors were when, in 1999, his high-achieving son joined the U.S. Marine Corps rather than follow his peers to elite universities:

"Why were I and the other parents at my son's private school so surprised by his choice? During World War II, the sons and daughters of the most powerful and educated families did their bit. If the immorality of the Vietnam War was the only reason those lucky enough to go to college dodged the draft, why did we not encourage our children to volunteer for military service once that war was done?

"Have we the wealthy and educated Americans all become pacifists? Is the world a safe place? Or have we just gotten used to having somebody else defend us? What is the future of our democracy when the sons and daughters of the janitors at our elite universities are far more likely to be put in harm's way than are any of the students whose dorms their parents' clean?" "

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Time to let these ass holes know the truth. The group whose votes these people are bending over backwards for is the least likely to send their kids into battle. It's not the so called "liberal elite" that isn't sending their kids into battle. It's the moderately well educated BA/BS holders that aren't sending their kids (though neither group is sending them - though in the case of grad/post grad holders they're less likly to support the war too so they aren't guilty of the hypocrisy).