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Of course well educated people supported Bernie as did people from all ''levels'' of society and ethnic background.
I'm all against labelling & I get what you mean but (as I understand it) when Hedges, a well known and respected political analyst addresses the ''college-educated elites'' he is referring to those that work on behalf of multimillion dollar/blood sucking corporations and not of all people with a higher education.
He even wrote so in his first sentence: College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor.Education is brought up in the sense of a social privilege one has to be able to attend an Ivy League school (crazy expensive tuitions & often some sort of strong political/family connections) and therefore find employment in the aforementioned corporations.
Well that's what I understood anyway.
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It's a good article but it is very binary in the use of "college-educated elites"
It's as if there's no middle between 1% and 99%. As if nobody college educated wanted Bernie. This binary talk is really starting to bug me lately, I find it a bit alienating and it puts people in two groups.
Writer may mean it specifically for elite, but then why drag education into it, there's already a lot of anti intellectualism.