Why do more educated people vote Progressive/Liberal?
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Teacher's are Union.\n\nDemocrat's = Union
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I think it's because young people are used to having someone else do for them and they haven't had enough life experiences to weigh against what they've been taught in school by their left-leaning teachers and professors. I have found that the "FACTS" do not support many things that I was taught in school. Liberals have misused this mechanism of learning by chanting over and over as fact things that are simply untrue.
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Both refer to philosophical positions, but are usually applied to political movements that embody those philosophies.\n\nLiberals favor growth, change, flexibility. They tend to be more dynamic and driven, but often less organized. In the political arena, liberals favor progressive reform and the protection of civil liberties.\n\nConservatives favor tradition, conformity, and slow (if any) change. They tend to be more organized, but occasionally stagnant. In politics, this can be split between those who seek minimal government interference with minimal government social programs, and those who want heavy government regulation to ensure national conformity.
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People think that using sophisticated words makes you sound more educated because educated people use sophisticated words.  If you know how to use the words, you can get higher status without having the education.\n\nTry thinking about what gives people higher status in your native language.  I bet it's something similar.
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Excellent question and I bet that you will not get an intelligent answer.  If liberals were truly open minded you would have balanced political representation at all Colleges & Universities, instead of the typical 80 - 20% split that currently exisits.  If liberal were truly open minded they would not attack Christianity and defend it like they do other religions.  Liberals are the epitome of doulble standards.
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By some of the answers they skipped school can't read nor understand. Facts as you state the Richer pay a higher percentage, the poor pay none in fact they get a rebate not their money the richer give them for not earning enough the liberal way its the money us tax payers pay and I work for it they don't,  most. The ones that try I don't mind helping but not forever. You are not my dependent
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People in rural areas tend to have less education and they tend to stick to old ideas. Republicans just now how to appeal to these kinds of people. Liberals tend to use logic to analyze the situation rather then following their emotions. In cities there are a lot of ideas thrown at you allowing you to look at things from a different perspective from different people, which is why liberals tend to support diversity and equality.
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Liberals cant win elections so liberal teachers try to corrupt the youth to win future elections. Once the kids realize they are brain washed they become civilized once again and vote Republican because they love America.
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It's as simple as this.  Liberals feel that they are better able to spend money collectively for the good of a society than individuals are able to spend their own money for the good of society.  It is a mindset.  Liberals think society first at all costs and conservatives feel individual first.  On the outside the liberal side sounds better but to achieve their mindset they have to forcibly take from others (continuously higher taxes) which unless it's done by a government is generally called stealing.
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Though I am not a liberal, I have found that wacko conservatives are more stubborn know it alls than are liberals. Personally, I think both are retarded, but that's just the opinion of a hard line moderate.
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Highly educated people have a higher rate of atheism.
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One thing your forgot:  educated and or not educated who feel they have nothing worth it, to vote for.   In other words all you have to vote for is garbage!  People strike on voting because of this!  In a sense they have voted by not voting! Those of us vote based on the platform not  because they are Dem or Rep or because they are good looking or Gender or color!
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Me! I even worked for an environmental group in college....\n\n As we get older and experience real life, the vast majority of people will turn moderate/conservative.\n\nOnly those who are too immature/unwilling to open their minds stay lib. in their later years.
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24, liberal, BA in Government Administration, BA in Philosophy, MA in Public Administration, working on my PHD.  I see what you are getting at, the more educated I became, the more liberal.
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This is true only if you look at certain religions. Unitarians and Universalists are particularly high in members who are more highly educated.\n\nWilliam S. Ament, 1927\nC. C. Little, president of the University of Michigan, checked persons listed in Who's Who in America: "Unitarians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Universalists, and Presbyterians [who are less religious] are… far more numerous in Who's Who than would be expected on the basis of the population which they form. Baptists, Methodists, and Catholics are distinctly less numerous."\n\nAment confirmed Little's conclusion. He noted that Unitarians, the least religious, were more than 40 times as numerous in Who's Who as in the U.S. population. (Although I will dispute his contention that Unitarians are not religious)\n\nLehman and Witty, 1931\nUnitarians were 81.4 times as numerous among eminent scientists as non-Unitarians.\n\n\nNot surprisingly, the more liberal religions tend to attract the most highly educated and achieving people, particularly scientifically.\n\nConservative religions tend to attract a lower achieving and less academic persons.
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Because democrats are smarter and care about the enviroment. Lets just say, we have a little more brain cells.
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liberals protect freedom (liberty)\n\nconservatives protect property (conservation)\n\ngenerally speaking... the terms were coined in the French revolution of 1789.  \n\ngenerally higher educated people vote Left, and the more rich people vote Right.\n\nBut they're both part of the same problem.