The Election: Educated Women vs. Uneducated Men

By Shlomo Maital    

           Einstein said famously, “simplify as much as possible…but not more so.”

           This coming Tuesday, voters choose between Trump and Harris. 

            How will they choose?

            According to the New York Times:   a recent poll gives the answer.  Educated women favor Harris by 43 points (!) over men without college education, who favor Trump.   Since half of all voters are women (and women vote more than men), looks like a squeaker for Harris.  Some 64% of US men do not have a college degree.   For women – over 40% have college degrees, up from 4% (!) in 1940. 

               But this is truly sad.   Men without college education have been left behind and left out in America.  Whose fault?  Partly the Dems.  They gave away their manufacturing jobs to China, under Clinton.  But partly the men themselves.  It’s not that hard to get into college…  many have battled into community colleges, done well and gone on to university, sometimes with partial scholarships and federal assistance.

                 But, it’s easy for this left-out group to blame the Dems and the system and democracy and the immigrants and… everybody else.  Trump sensed this back in 2014 and plays on it incessantly.

                It is a terrible shame, an iniquity, that the election is settled on this basis.   And much worse – that a President may be elected by those who eschew education, voting for one who panders to ignorance.