re: "About 30-35% of Gen X adults with a four-year college degree self-identify as “Liberal.” Among Gen X adults with a four-year college degree, only 18-22% self-identify as “Liberal.” " typo...one of these must be 'without a '
In the 2012 election, which Romney lost, he won college educated white voters 56/42.
However, non-white college grads caused Obama to take college grads overall. You can guess the gender ratios too.
There is a huge regional variation here and of course the more elite one gets (either phd or by institutional prestige) the more leftist one gets.
But I think it’s worth noting that the average white college grads, especially if a man or married women, isn’t on board with this stuff.
In my current state of Florida Trump won white college grads 56/43 in 2024, including winning every single age group handily.
Another very strange thing with Trump is the Gen X effect. In every single election of my lifetime republicans do worst among the young and best among 65+ with it being basically a straight linear line. But with Donald Trump he lost 65+ pretty handily but way over performed with 45-65 everywhere. It’s kind of bizarre how these two age groups moved in opposite directions during the Trump era. Anecdotally, “no kings” seems to be a boomer larp of the ‘60s, whereas gen X is more the podcast generation (Joe Rogan belongs to this age group).
My focus is primarily on those with four-year college degrees who are in on Post-Modern Left-of-Center ideologies. They have had a disproportionate impact on our institutions, particularly the Democratic party, K-12 education, universities, Hollywood, media, non-profits, etc.
Are you taking the route that the long march was planned in the 1960s but subsequent to that, it was unplanned? There were surely academics who were openly hoping for the outcome. The interesting thing is that much of society does not like where the institutions have gone and the debate is whether to ignore them, destroy them, or build other less affected institutions.
I believe that it was 99% unplanned. I do not believe that people make career choices in their 20s with the specific intent of burrowing within institutions that are hostile to their ideological views so that 50 years later they can change it. That is not how people act.
The few radical professors and activists in the 1960s were correct by accident. Even a stopped clock is correct twice per day.
And, yes, how to undo the Long March is a serious conundrum for society. We need those institutions, they created great benefits for the nation, but they have also been hollowed out and corrupted by Post-Modern Left-of-Center ideologies. Worse, most of them will refuse to change and would refer institutional collapse over reform.
Michael,
I have been wondering why you haven’t weighed in on the last few posts Kling has written on his Substack specifically on your writing?
I took this last week off from Substack (reading and writing) and I did not even know that Kling wrote an article about my work until a few hours ago.
I have since added in a few comments.
re: "About 30-35% of Gen X adults with a four-year college degree self-identify as “Liberal.” Among Gen X adults with a four-year college degree, only 18-22% self-identify as “Liberal.” " typo...one of these must be 'without a '
Good catch. Corrected.
In the 2012 election, which Romney lost, he won college educated white voters 56/42.
However, non-white college grads caused Obama to take college grads overall. You can guess the gender ratios too.
There is a huge regional variation here and of course the more elite one gets (either phd or by institutional prestige) the more leftist one gets.
But I think it’s worth noting that the average white college grads, especially if a man or married women, isn’t on board with this stuff.
In my current state of Florida Trump won white college grads 56/43 in 2024, including winning every single age group handily.
Another very strange thing with Trump is the Gen X effect. In every single election of my lifetime republicans do worst among the young and best among 65+ with it being basically a straight linear line. But with Donald Trump he lost 65+ pretty handily but way over performed with 45-65 everywhere. It’s kind of bizarre how these two age groups moved in opposite directions during the Trump era. Anecdotally, “no kings” seems to be a boomer larp of the ‘60s, whereas gen X is more the podcast generation (Joe Rogan belongs to this age group).
I agree with this.
My focus is primarily on those with four-year college degrees who are in on Post-Modern Left-of-Center ideologies. They have had a disproportionate impact on our institutions, particularly the Democratic party, K-12 education, universities, Hollywood, media, non-profits, etc.
Are you taking the route that the long march was planned in the 1960s but subsequent to that, it was unplanned? There were surely academics who were openly hoping for the outcome. The interesting thing is that much of society does not like where the institutions have gone and the debate is whether to ignore them, destroy them, or build other less affected institutions.
Thanks for the comment.
I believe that it was 99% unplanned. I do not believe that people make career choices in their 20s with the specific intent of burrowing within institutions that are hostile to their ideological views so that 50 years later they can change it. That is not how people act.
The few radical professors and activists in the 1960s were correct by accident. Even a stopped clock is correct twice per day.
And, yes, how to undo the Long March is a serious conundrum for society. We need those institutions, they created great benefits for the nation, but they have also been hollowed out and corrupted by Post-Modern Left-of-Center ideologies. Worse, most of them will refuse to change and would refer institutional collapse over reform.