I & I Editorial BoardAnyone wondering about the value of a college education these days should look at the exit polls out of New York City. Because they show quite clearly that the more time you spend in college, the more ignorant you become.
Among other things, the exit polls show that Zohran Mamdani’s victory came entirely because of the support he got from those who were college educated – 57% of whom voted for the inexperienced radical socialist immigrant born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Just 42% of those without a college education were foolish enough to want this wrecking ball running their city.
What’s even more interesting is that the more time spent in school, the higher the support for Mamdani. Just 40% of high school graduates voted for him, compared with 41% of those who dropped out of college, 46% of those with an associate’s degree, and 57% of those with a bachelor’s or better.
And it’s the latter group who, contrary to everything history has taught us over the past 100 years, actually believe that Mamdani’s policies are “realistic” and that raising taxes will “help the city’s economy.”
The exit polls also show that the more recent your education, the nuttier you are, with support from Mamdani at 77% among the college-aged, dropping down to 33% among those 65 or older.
Also interesting is the fact that Mamdani failed to win a majority of the vote among those earning less than $50,000 – the people his messages were supposedly directed at – but got 52% of those making more than $50,000.
Mamdani also failed to capture the vote of those who think New York’s economy isn’t doing so well – just 46% of those who said the economy is poor voted for Mamdani. They know better than to think that tax hikes, rent freezes, free buses, and Soviet-style grocery stores will help them.
In other words, Mamdani’s support came from well-educated voters who live in an economic bubble – the people least likely to suffer the ill-effects of Mamdani’s policies.
If that doesn’t rankle you, think about it this way. Taxpayers are forking over more than $170 billion a year to subsidize colleges that make people more illiterate about history and economics, who then vote in politicians who will make all of us poorer.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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Mamdami’s election should be presented this way. Mamdami is offering billions of dollars of tax incentives for businesses and wealthy to move out of New York. At the same time is offering billions in cash assistance to homeless , thugs , drugs , illegal aliens , prostitutes and lower strata of society to move to New York . College Educated will of course consider that a winning strategy for creating successful city. Time will tell.
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In NYC, “college educated” means is four more years of radical indoctrination.
“Today’s” college makes you stupid. It’s by design in the indoctrination.
As a native NYer and graduate of a CUNY unit no less, I am appalled by the idiocy of contemporary grads. I’m long retired, but looking back over my checkered “professional” career, my greatest regret in life is my college (and advanced) degrees. I would have been far happier had I followed my family blue-collar roots.
We have FAR too many college grads with expensive degrees in such nonsense as “critical queer studies”, huge debts and lofty expectations that can never be met. What is truly astounding is that this has been the case for at least 40 years now, and will intensify with the advent of widespread AI. College should be reserved for only the most talented and those who recognize that a degree is a consumer good and not investment in “human capital” and have the resources to pay for it themselves.
Mamdani’s win is another very strong argument to raise the voting age back, at least to 21 where it have been before misguided thinking lowered it to 18 because of the Vietnam War.
From my point of view, I was not a well informed, interested nor mature enough voter until I was about 35. I voted in every election, yes, but…
At 35 I had a real job, was paying taxes, school taxes, too, had a mortgage, was married with children and had seen what low moral characters 90% of politicians are regardless of what they tell us. Had grown independent of the main media editors, college professors and all the others who are still as immature as is Mamdani.
Anyone for raising the voting age to 35 to elect better officials for better government to strengthen and to protect the USA?
The leftist mind is programmed with false information, bias, and irrational processing, like a computer programmed with garbage.
Citing a degree is one of the main logical fallacies. The “appeal to authority” does not make for a valid argument or for that matter any expertise in anything of substance. That people who have graduated college are somehow worthy of respect, or those that somehow give immediate respect to a college graduate, is simply a problem. They lack the integrity and ability to do honest analysis, and thus they foist themselves by their own petard of ignorance.