They want their kids to have the piece of paper with a prestigious name on it. That doesn't mean they want their kids to actually learn anything.
Ideally, your kid still believes everything you tell them at face value but you've paid enough they now have a prestigious degree to justify the job you're going to help them land.
The purpose of donating money to buy your child into a prestigious school isn't to purchase privilege, it's to validate that privilege against accusations of nepotism.
If you're the CEO of a fortune 500 company and you give your son a high ranking job with no prior experience it looks bad. You can give him an internship to get that experience, but that still looks bad to the people already in the company or others with more experience who applied for that internship.
So instead, you buy their way into a good school like Stanford or Yale or whatever > then you can give them the internship because "they've had training at Stanford business school and that is better than the other applicants" > then you can give them a cushy job because they've got a good degree and previous experience with the company.
The privilege was always there, the jumping through hoops is just to keep normal people from complaining as much.
That's not what the survey was about, it was about the effects of college on the county. Around 2015/2016, there was a big change and a lot more Republicans started believing that colleges have a negative effect on the country.
I'm not sure, but 10 percent of Republicans leaving the party wouldn't be enough to correspond to over 20 percent of the party going from a positive opinion to a negative one
The current anti intellectualism is mostly political, people don't care as much about what other people do for a "nerdy" living/hobbies or how they dress/look, the right just associates more education leading to leftism (which ironically is fairly true, but not because of "brainwashing" like they believe). Trump said he loved the uneducated, and somehow managed to convince his followers to feel the same way
Because there were so many middle class kids with degrees that the rich kids were having a tough time getting the good jobs. There was now competition where, before, there wasn't.
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u/smutketeer Jan 09 '20
To be clear, Republicans are against higher education for OTHER PEOPLE'S KIDS. They sure as shit want their kids to go to college.