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As long as we believe that, the less educated are a lost cause, we don't try to appeal to them much and they are ripe pickings for the right. I think the Republicans appeal to them and paint liberals and leftists as elitist snobs who don't care about the average person who couldn't go to college, whereas liberals tend to acknowledge and celebrate its elitism. That isn't to say university doesn't have value or anything, its just that kind of knowledge is very inaccessible to a lot of people and its a small minority of leftists who are trying to change that.
In countries were socialist revolution happened like lets say in China, it was led but the educated elite but it was the poor uneducated who were willing to die for change and who were the canon fodder for revolution. Of course they had more of a fire under them, but I think the reasons the average blue collar Canadian or American person probably doesn't give much thought to socialism or social progress in general are varied and more complicated than just simply that they're dumb and we're smart.
Also I thought of this at work, but I don't think they counted fiscally conservative, did they? I know a fuckload of people who are "socially progressive, fiscalling conservative." Which I would say is dumb.
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