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I think the problem is more about misconceptions on both sides. I don’t believe that there are many people who “disdain college degrees.” But there are many people who resent being made to feel inferior because they lack a degree. The Democrats are supposed to be the party of the working class. How are working class people to trust Democrats if we talk about them as if they were livestock?
I think “rural, uneducated, working-class” people would vote for someone named Mohammed Hussein Ahmadinejad if they believed he understood their plight and actually gave a damn.
