Growing population in America’s highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And Republicans are scrambling for answers.

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

  • @yuun
    42•11 months ago

    alt: every Republican accusation is a confession

    college students are being indoctrinated = we’re trying really hard to indoctrinate everyone, and being even mildly educated is a problem for our dipshit ideology

    • the_itsb (she/her)
      25•11 months ago

      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@beehaw.org
        16•11 months 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.