Sorry if I’m not the first to bring this up. It seems like a simple enough solution.

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    They are also not very good in voting for politicians that actually act in their interest. It baffles me every day… what do you guys think is the reason for this?

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      undereducation. The missing skill here is critical thinking, and critical thinking is something that you don’t usually get a lot of practice with until college. The conservative strategy of raising the price of college, refusing to spend money on student aid, and demonizing college professors as liberal brainwashers has been quite effective in keeping their constituents away from higher education.