Stratification

Yes, “stratification” is a word, and the one used right now to discuss education as a demographic in voting habit.  Students of the election call one aspect of this point as historic for the 2024 election.  College education most divides the electorate in the United States.  How does education stratify a view of the world?  Think with me about this.

The students of election will say that smart people vote for a Democrat.  On the other hand, dummies (or garbage) vote for a Republican and specifically Trump.  They delineate this demarcation by education.  Education stratifies voters into these separate voting trays.  Is that true?

Present American education is overwhelmingly or essentially propaganda on worldview.  Both state and private colleges or universities hire Democrat teachers.  I believe, and I also think I’m right here, that the best description of college and university philosophy is postmodern.  This matches with what comes out of the other side into the Democrat Party.  The best of Democrats are modernists and the worst are postmodernists.  The postmodernists have the loudest influence in college and university education.

History

What I’m writing here about education goes way back.  I think it best traces to two points of address.  First, educational institutions eliminated God and the Bible in the early 1960s.  That left these places without a mooring in objective truth.  Second, I point to Allan Bloom’s book, The Closing of the American Mind, except things have regressed even further than its 1987 publication.  It became a bestseller because it truly reflected what dominated the American university experience as early at the 1980s.  It’s easy to see this began much earlier with all of the sit-ins and protests on the college campuses in the 1960s.

Colleges and universities produce a high percentage of clones now.  More than ever these are infected with the woke mind virus (article here).  Even if they don’t subscribe to the extreme, they obediently and silently get in line.  The universities immerse their students in lies and worse, the lie.  And they all do think they’re smart, because they got, akin to the strawman in the Wizard of Oz, their diploma.  They is smart now.

What Happens

Perhaps the biggest push-back with what I’m writing here is that it broad brushes college graduates.  Those who put so much into their college and post-college education don’t want discreditation of it.  For sure, many escaped the strongest influences of the state university.  They came out of it with certain values intact.  If that’s you, then so be it.  That doesn’t mean that what I’m writing here is not true.

Many of the college educated today are not only not smart — in general they’re stupid — but they think they’re infinitely smarter than these non-college-educated, blue collar types.  It’s worse than that.  College education as a whole dumbs people down in the worst example of “mass formation hypnosis,” what others call “mass formation psychosis.”  American universities and college indoctrinate their students, which explains the sameness of their graduates.

1 Corinthians 15:33

To explain from the Bible education stratification, I ask that you consider what the Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:33:

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

“Communications” translates homilia of which BDAG says, “this noun is used of a group and then of what a group ordinarily engages in: conversation.”  The English word “homily” comes from the word, which is a type of instruction or speech of a theological kind.

Indoctrination

An evil theological speech would spread false doctrine and practice, something that sends someone a different direction than God and His Word.  Those in Corinth were hearing false theological instruction that rejected bodily resurrection as a doctrine.  When someone was hearing this from false teachers in a Greek culture that embraced the concept that found goodness only in the spiritual and not the physical, it corrupted the person hearing it.  It would send the hearer of it down the wrong path, even away from a true gospel.

The “evil communications,” which is theological speech or philosophizing, is another way of saying, “indoctrination.”  The beliefs espoused in colleges and universities puts its audience, the students, into an unnatural state.  They would not naturally think the way they do, except that they are coerced or brainwashed during a very vulnerable time of life.

Colleges and universities corrupt good manners.  They spread a worldview that changes the course of their adherents away from a Christian worldview.  Instead of pleasing God, the hearers of the college and university homilies for four to eight years at a pivotal time of their lives please themselves, their teachers, the world system, and the prince of this world.

Avoidance

Missing college and university doesn’t mean that you will have the right type of thinking, belief, and living.  I would say it is more likely that you’ll do better at living how you should if you avoid colleges and universities.  You will miss those homilies, which are powerful in the wrong direction.  The constrast between hearing the “evil communications” and not hearing them causes the stratification that manifests itself in election results.

I say, “manifests itself,” because the election just reveals the difference.  What actually occurs is worse than that.  The evil homilies of colleges and universities dumbs down the whole country.  Even if graduates can get a job, they infect everywhere, including their companies, the government, and other institutions with their bad ideas.  It degrades the country overall.  Not only do the graduates think wrong, but they don’t know it, because the education makes them more clever at resisting the truth.  It hardens them against the illumination of the truth and wisdom from God.

Change Necessary Immediately

As an example, Decatur County, Indiana voted one way in the election.  The teachers in the county schools voted completely opposite to the parents and voters of the county.  Parents send their children to school to receive the opposite of who they are.  The parents paid these teachers to undermine them.  What I’m writing is true.  It’s a wonder that this last Tuesday could turn out how it did, but it also explains how a Kamala Harris could come so close to winning.  A majority of her voters drank the kool-aid of the colleges and universities.  That’s also why they talk the way they do, that sounds so incomprehensible to most of us, the other side.

You maybe don’t understand the Kamala Harris word salad.  You ask, “What was she even saying?”  Yet, those hearing her speeches sit or stand there and accept it with wide eyed enthusiasm.  It’s as if they operate on a different frequency perhaps with a different antennae.  This is the education stratification at work.

For real change to occur on a national level, educational stratification needs to stop.  It is so ingrained that generation after generation repeats it.  Everything about education needs to change.  That will start by illumination of the problem of educational stratification.  It’s a diversity than the United States cannot afford.